Community:Haggie125/Retail Tycoon

Retail Tycoon is Haggie125's most popular game. It has over 168+ million visits and has gained 1.6M+ user favorites with a decent upvote rating. It used to cost 25 robux to gain access to the game when it was still in beta. Those who played the game when it was still in beta are awarded with a golden statue. In the game, you build a store from nothing. The game is inspired by Your Store Tycoon made by Dued1. Right now, Your Store Tycoon is broken by ROBLOX updates. He is posting the updates on progress and planned features on his Trello page. There is a sequel called Retail Tycoon 2.

How to Play
In order to start your own store, you will need to claim a vacant land. If you want your store to start making profits, you will need to buy at least one shelf and a register, which uses some of the $5,000 you start off with. Then, supply your shelves with the items that you are able to put them on, as there are separate shelves for separate items. Soon, customers should start coming into your store to buy items. Once they check out, you make a profit due to the fact that supplies are on sale for twice the amount that it costs for you to order them. Restock the items once the shelf runs out of supplies for customers to buy.

Customers
Customers are the most commonly seen NPC in this game. They are the NPCs that buy your products and judge your store based on its features. Occasionally, a customer will leave your store without buying anything and state that they couldn't find what they were looking for. If your lines at registers are long, the customers wanting to check out will stand and wait for a while, repeatedly exclaiming the lines are too long. If the lines stay fully occupied, the customer will lose their patience and leave the store. If a spot becomes available before they lose their patience, they will get in the line and continue with their routine. Sometimes, they will accidentally spill something on the floor, which can have a negative impact on your store if you or your janitor doesn't clean it.

Customers will have yellow heads and arms, with their torso being a random color, and their legs being black. Finally, they will also have a random face on their avatar.

There is a rare type of customer, usually nicknamed the "rich customer." They can be identified by a light blue top hat with a purple stripe, known as Diamond top hat in the ROBLOX catalog, a monocle, known as Monocle in the ROBLOX catalog, it has a light blue torso and black legs. These types of customers will not be hesitant to buy expensive supplies such as electronics, and will usually buy plenty of items. If you see one of these customers in your store, you should restock shelves that hold expensive items to maximize your profits.

Robbers
The final type of NPC that can be seen without needing to spend money is the robber. They wear a gray beanie with a gray torso and black legs. When one is approaching your store, a message will appear at the top of your screen, stating "A suspicious individual is approaching your store! Click on the robber to apprehend him." If you click on him, the robber will raise their arms in the air and disappear. If nothing is done, the robber will enter your store, look around at your items, and steal some of them, before leaving. Robbers can also make comments and judge your store, just like what customers do.

Ratings
Ratings tell you what general customers think of you. You can view ratings when you click Manage; they appear on the bottom of your screen, with a 5-star rating system, and a message. If your store has not become functional yet, the message will be "Waiting for ratings to come in." If the ratings are 0.1 through 0.9 stars, the message will be "People really hate us you know." If the ratings are 1 through 1.9 stars, the message will be "We don't have the best image." If the ratings are 2 through 2.9 stars, the message will be "Our customers tolerate us!" If the ratings are 3 through 3.9, the message will be "People enjoy shopping here!" If the ratings are 4 through 5 stars, the message will be "People love our store!"

When you click manage and click data next to your store rating, it will show you the features of your store, and a 5-star system rating next to each of them, which lets you know if that factor of the store is helping or harming your store ratings. The features of your store that affect the ratings are cleanliness, crowdedness, decoration, selection, line sizes, store size, and shelter as listed in order.

Workers
Workers are another category of NPCs. They can be hired by clicking Workers to the left, and adding how many workers of a specific type you want to be hired. However, you may not be able to hire as many specific types of workers as you would with another specific type of worker. For example, you may hire three restockers, but you can only hire one guard. Finally, workers cost x10 minutes of work to hire. This means that because you have to pay a certain amount of cash every minute for your worker, the cost to hire them is multiplied by ten.

Workers can be identified with a shirt that is the same color you chose in Options, and with your store logo in the upper left corner of their shirt. They will always have the default ROBLOX face, which is a smile, unlike other customers.

Cashiers are the first type of workers you can hire. They cost $200 to hire, and you are required to pay them $20 per minute. They will stand at registers for you and check-out items that customers bring. If you have self-checkouts, however, cashiers are not needed.

Janitors are the second type of workers you can hire. Like the cashier, they cost $200 to hire, and you are required to pay them $20 per minute. When they spot a spill, they will walk towards it, and bring out a broom. After a few seconds, the spill will be cleaned.

Guards are the third type of workers you can hire. They cost $300 to hire, and you are required to pay them $30 per minute. Whenever they spot a robber that has fully entered the store, they will walk towards the robber in an attempt to arrest them before they can cause any harm. However, unlike the other workers, you can only hire one guard, making it a problem if you have a large store for more than one robber, can appear at once at your store. One way to fix this is too only have one door, making the robber more viable to get caught.

Restockers are the fourth type of workers you can hire, and go considerably well with a manager. Like the guard, they cost $300 to hire, and you are required to pay them $30 per minute. Whenever you buy supplies, they will go to the shelf or shelves that contain the same item and restock the shelf or shelves if the amount of items on the shelf isn't at the maximum capacity. For example, they will restock a shelf that has 28 candy since the maximum amount of candy you can store on a shelf is 30, not 28.

Managers are the fifth and last type of workers you can hire, and go considerably well with a restocker. They are the only type of worker that costs $400 to hire and are required to be paid $40 per minute. Unlike the other type of workers (except for Cashiers,) however, they actually require specific furniture made for them in order to function, which is the Office Desk. The way they work is that they buy supplies for you, and you get to choose what the supply is and how many of the supply they buy. For example, once you have your manager sitting in an Office Desk, you need to click Supply and then, below the option to buy a type of supply, there will be an option to choose how many of that supply a manager will buy within a one-minute interval, and checkbox you will need to check in order to confirm that you want the manager to do buy that many of a supply within a one-minute interval, continuously as long as the manager is hired.

Tips

 * Self-checkouts are considerably more efficient than registers, as no cashiers are required to run them, so you can save the $20 you would lose every minute that you have a cashier hired. However, registers can hold up to six people lines while self-checkouts can hold up to three people lines, so you should take both registers into consideration.
 * Managers are useful because they auto-fill your stock.
 * Stockers are very useful because they will take what the managers bring to the shelf.
 * Only get 1 manager, you won't need more.
 * Don't buy many expensive items early on; despite the profit you get from them, customers will buy cheaper items more often.