Sims Get To Work : Owning That Retail Shop

I will try to keep this short as it's quite late in the evening right now.

Owning the retail shop has got nothing to do with having a career. My character got very restless because she has no job. Maintaining a retail shop is hard work. There are so many customers and since they only have one employee, the employees can only do one thing at a time. Employees can help restock items, clean the store, ring up customers and answer questions. In this case, Sathia only employed one worker.

Also, it is possible to live in the shop and put in a bed and kitchen there so that the boss don't have to go home regularly. However, since my character is married, she misses her family and I had to send her home.

Family members can help run the shop but this only applies to adults and teenagers. Kids are not very useful in a store. They can't help so they just run around or sleep in the bed.

Overall, I think that owning a retail store is not for the family sort of person but they can go there as a family and help run the store together.

Look out for the shopping cart bubble above the customer's head. It means that they are ready to buy. It is a lot of hard work to get the store running. I was worried that my character Govinda would die because he was so exhausted, hungry and unhygienic. He went to work with all these needs in deep red. Fortunately, he survived and recovered.

 That's it for now. I might take a break from this game to focus on other things for awhilele before I come back.

Sims 4 Get To Work: Getting a Retail Store

In my last 2 games, I played an oriental family and experimented with the detective profession. And in this game, I've created a new household. This time I have an Indian household consisting of a family of 5.

Meet Govinda Moha who is the head of the family. He works as an astronaut and he is now an intern with Space Y. He is married to Sathia Moses who has a strong sense of business acumen and owns a retail store. They have 3 kids. Jonathan Moha is their teenage son. They also have another younger son Johnny Moses and a daughter, Jennifer Moses.

The purpose of creating this family is to check out the retail store function. But before I began, I wanted to test if it's possible for 2 married Sims to woohoo in the same bed (in the picture below). Well, it worked!!! In my previous games where I ran a legacy, it didn't so I guess it was a computer glitch.

And now for the retail store part. I thought that owning a retail store would be a sort of career but I was wrong. Actually it is possible to still have a job and own a retail shop at the same time but a Sim still needs to be at the store to manage things.

A store does not run on its own. The owner has to be there to open and close the store. To employ staff, one has to click on the cash register and select manage staff, The cash register is also a place to open and close the store, toggle the sale items and other things.

There will be a prompt to transfer funds from the household to the store and back to the household. Once the store is opened, people will come in to browse and chat. Sales can only be made if the picture of  a cart appears on top of the potential customer's head. Then click on the customer to select 'ring up customer'.

Staff has been to be told to ring up customers, engage customers, restock items and clean up the store. I don't know if there is a way to make them independent. Working at the store can be rather long hours. Sathia employed a staff called Gavin Richards and when he had worked for too many hours, he just went home on his own.

Sathia didn't go home until I made her. Otherwise, she simply slept there or cooked there. I'm wondering if it's possible to live in the store and not go home at all.

The picture above shows how her retail store looks like. There is a second story but there are nothing to browse up there.

And when she came home, I found that her kids had gone to the playground to hang out. See the picture below. I've not seen such a playground in my previous games.

In my next game, I will probably explore the retail shop further. I'm thinking of creating more kids in the next few families and maybe even add in some aliens for the fun of it. We'll see about that.