What kind of stores do you build in your game? I had a pretty decent bakery once, owned by Angela Pleasant after she graduated Uni, but I want to try to build some new stores. I miss all my toy, flower, pet and robot stores from Sims 2. What stores do you have in your game? Do you have any tips?

I made an ice cream shop & an occult shop (selling magic items, vampire items, herbalism recipes, refined crystals & jungle adventure relics, etc). I have also created "retail" cafes selling various foods, as I got tired of dealing with actual restaurants.

I have the Olesons Mercantile store, which sells food and clothing mostly. Also a bakery, an outdoor store (with jungle and camping stuff) and a knitting store (with the different coloured llama wools).I used to have a flower shop too, but my sims never went there.I basically only bother with shops that mainly sell things you cannot get in bb mode, with a few standard bb items to fill it out if necessary.

Right now my game has the grocery store which I know you saw me mention in another thread, plus a small bakery. And I have 2 other retail lots that are in place, but no one has bought them yet to set up the actual store. The grocery store is huge, on a 40x30 lot, with 2 stories for the store plus a bar on the 2nd floor where Sims can also order drinks and food when they are shopping and a 3rd story with living quarters for the owners. It also has a playground in back so kids can stay occupied while their parents shop, and I have the grocery vendor stall from cottage living outside as well, because the store sells ALL food ingredients except red and white wrapped meat...the game won't let you sell those two things on a retail lot sadly.I use mods by LittleMsSams so that the vendor stall and the bar both automatically get staff assigned to them, even though normally they wouldn't on a retail lot.The bakery is just a tiny bakery like anyone would have in their game.One of the 2 currently inactive retail lots is a potion/herbalism shop that I'm going to sell potions from RoM and Herbalism out of and also all of the ingredients for those 2 skills. It is a small shop, with a large garden beside it for growing the ingredients and living quarters on the 2nd floor. I'll be buying and getting it set up for business with my Sim who is a teenage spellcaster right now, once she grows up and graduates from university.The 2nd currently inactive retail lot I just finished building right now and it is where I will sell upgraded appliances like that other thread was talking about. I set up an area for kitchen appliances plus areas for vacuum cleaners, stereos, TV's, computers, sinks, toilets, baths and showers and put a 2nd floor living area on it.I'll be buying that with the next Sim that rolls around who has traits appropriate for someone who is into handiness, whenever that happens. I randomize traits for Sims born in game so I have no idea how long it will be before it's open for business.I'll also probably open a flower shop at some point down the road, where a Sim can do flower arranging and grow flowers beside the shop. It's not in place anywhere in the game yet. I'm hoping the new world coming with the Wedding pack is large enough that I can find a small lot there to put it.Edit: Just remembered you asked for tips. I don't really have any other than "have fun". Retail locations can run themselves, so there's no real secrets that I can think of for having them. But they definitely are better if you have a Sim own them, because then the employees are there even when other Sims you play shop there. If the retail location is unowned there's never any employees at it...you can still shop there, but I just find it weird shopping somewhere that has no employees.

The Spark-n-Fizz, Bess Sterling's shop where she sells fizzy juices and upgraded appliances (Just starting out, pretty bare-bones right now. I'm happy that I got a run-down look, not easy in sims!)https://i.postimg.cc/KvkhdnB4/spark-customers.pngI'm pretty new to retail gameplay so I'm still learning as I go.So far, the most significant tip for Bess has been that when she sells an item, she can just click on the item's marker to restock it, and the restocked item is the same in every way as the item that just sold. She doesn't have to go to the fizzy station and make more juice. She doesn't have to do the same upgrades on the next appliance. Once she's upgraded an appliance to start with, all replacement appliances have the same upgrades. Restocking takes a little time but not as much as fizzing or upgrading from scratch.I haven't yet been successful in having customers buy bottles of fizz from the fridge. They will buy six-packs of it off a table. I'm not sure if there is a glitch at work or if the other items are just more attractive.

I have a couple of malls, they sell clothes (Moschino, everyday, swimwear), music instruments, bakery goods, pet treats, Christmas decorations, electronics, small gift type objects like vases and future cubes, baby furniture, make-up decor, toys, shoes. I also have some smaller shops that sell flowers, books, jewellery, icecream, wedding dresses, shoes and lingerie, seasonal clothing. I had a knitting supplies store with an area for knitting, but it got demolished. I also have some sims that sell stuff on the sales tables, so not really stores, but they could be. One sells honey, another one sells apples and apple juice, and another one sells relics and emotion berries. I have plans for a photography shop, but I haven't decided yet if it will be a proper shop or just use those picture displays. Anyway, I guess you could make a shop to sell just about anything, though some objects like the small aquariums cannot be set for sale, and sims can't reach objects placed in some glass displays. But if you want to make craftable objects available to other sims who don't craft, shops are a great way to do that. I also use the shops as places where sims can access the different craft machines, so they can either buy or craft items themselves.

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Serendipity0578
New Scout
3 years ago
"manicobsessive;c-18060684" wrote:
I have just started a magical save, and your occult stores sound perfect @EternalSunshine! Are they on the gallery?

No, sorry. I'm not a builder, so I took someone else's build off of the gallery & gutted it to turn it into a functional occult shop. I know a lot of builders who add to the gallery don't like others reuploading builds even if they have been substantially changed, so I don't upload things to the gallery myself.
manicobsessive1
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
"EternalSunshine;c-18060736" wrote:
"manicobsessive;c-18060684" wrote:
I have just started a magical save, and your occult stores sound perfect @EternalSunshine! Are they on the gallery?

No, sorry. I'm not a builder, so I took someone else's build off of the gallery & gutted it to turn it into a functional occult shop. I know a lot of builders who add to the gallery don't like others reuploading builds even if they have been substantially changed, so I don't upload things to the gallery myself.

Okey dokey. Thanks. Guess I'll have to not be lazy and make my own :D
mightyspritesims
Rising Hotshot
3 years ago
Thank you @RamblineRose :blush:

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