My guide describes the basics of storage room utilization and effective organization in Supermarket Simulator. It also provides some information on stockers, in-store organization, pricing, and product ordering. Screenshots are included.
Contents
Storage Room, Organization and Purchasing
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Intro
It can take some time arrange your storage room effectively, but once you are done with it you probably won’t have to organize things again. At level 60, I have found that the ideal number of storage racks is 26, however, I have created a storage room with the potential to have 30 racks, if needed.
Refer to the images below to see an example of a 26-rack or 30-rack storage room.
I have “Shelf”, “Fridge”, and “Freezer” items each organized separately. You can filter by these categories by using the “Display” dropdown menu. It is recommended to organize your warehouse based on the same order as the Market. This makes it easier to do your daily shopping.
26-rack storage room example
30-rack storage room example
Quantities: Storage Room
For most items you will only need one rack space. For kegs, yamo (green bottle) cleaner, and bleach you will need 2 rack spaces. For the largest items, such as toilet paper, frozen chickens, and potatoes you will need to use 3 rack spaces. Fill each space only when it completely runs out.
In-Store: Quantities and Costs
Once you have stockers, you can arrange your store however you want, as long as you have enough shelf space. The stockers will be filling your shelves for you so don’t worry about doing any of the stocking yourself. You will want to try to minimize the number of coolers and freezers in your store because they each have electricity costs associated with them. I think it’s $5/day per cooler/freezer, but don’t quote me on that. I was too lazy to figure it out.
As far as quantities of items go, I recommend keeping an allocation with a quantity of at least 12 on each item. For example, you should have 6 shelf spaces filled with toilet paper, 2 shelf spaces with flour, 1 shelf space with cereal, and 1 shelf space filled with frozen pizzas. You can do more than that, but it’s not necessary once you have stockers. Again, I would recommend a minimum allocation of at least a 12 for each item. If you have at least 12 then your stockers will be pinged to fill it before it ever even gets close to running out.
For pricing items, I always set prices to the market price to maximize the number of items purchased. You need to sell as much product as possible in order to pay your employees, rent, and bills. The only exception I make is if I am making less than $0.50 on a Shelf item or $1 on a cooler/freezer item then I will increase the price so that I am at least making a profit after shipping costs.
You will want to get 3 cashiers as soon as you can, but you will never need more than 3. Right now, there simply aren’t enough customers to need a fourth cashier.
Purchasing
Only purchase products at the beginning of the day to maximize efficiency. You will have to wait until your stockers are done with their stocking from the night before to start your ordering, otherwise you may order too much.
When buying items, shipping comes in 3 price tiers:
Shipping: Prices
- 1-3 items: $2
- 4-6 items: $4
- 7+ items: $8
I recommend buying products in quantities of 3 or 6 items to minimize shipping costs. You will only want to purchase products when they completely run out on a storage rack. Once you have an empty space, fill it completely to minimize the number of times you need to fill the storage racks. Prices changes on items won’t affect ordering because it all evens out in the end, so completely fill your rack spaces once they run out.
Stockers
Hire stockers as soon as you can. The storage room is useless without them. They are really slow so you will want to hire them as soon as you are able to, otherwise the stocking will take forever.
Given the most recent update that increases the number of customers, I don’t think 3 cashiers is enough now to handle a level 60+ store. I have 4 cashiers now and even they can’t handle the rush at the end of the day without people complaining that all the cashier lanes are full.
Have you felt like this system has changed in effectiveness with the last small update? Now that I’m getting anywhere from like 85-100 customers a day, 16 of an item on a shelf doesn’t seem to be enough. Several days I’ve actually run out of a couple things, and others I’ve spent so much on restocking that I barely make a profit. I only restock if I have 0 in the storage room. I’m about to be level 70 and unlock the next 3 licenses, but I feel like I need to rearrange the whole store again
I managed to squeeze in 33 (!!) racks by following your guide but tweaking the area around the staircase. It’s tough to do, requiring very precise placement that took a while to get, but it then allows for 2 additional racks.
The other difference from yours is that I have my single-side row on the right side, with the double-sided rack in the middle section instead. This orientation then allows for a 4 rack single row instead of 3. Bringing the total to 33.
It forces restockers to only use the outside door to access the right side. Human players can jump over the little wall, maybe not ideal but it works. My first version that allowed full access caused the AI to get stuck, but this one seems viable and glitch free after brief testing.
Great guide, but no reason to keep racks in the storeroom completely full. Boxes on racks don’t make any money, only products on the shelves do. Only order more product if you MUST, not because you don’t have a full rack. On any given day I have about 50 empty rack spaces and I still make a profit.
keeping them full or close to, makes it so you dont have to order that many item types every day. Speds up the manual progress, and makes it easy to see what to get. Something that could be interesting epxeriment is have them emtpy and and just order 1-3 of everything (more of big items) every day and note where it seems to pile up
start of game store xp goes fast to slow this down short change customers when they pay cash