The way it seems to work is that visitors will randomly decide to visit, or not visit, each different shelf in the store.

Other than that the main headache-inducing way of raising income and profitability is the shop. This is a good candidate to have an employee or two just run in the background for you and for you to slowly build a larger stockpile as you go along. The garage is great for profitability, but requires serious investment in expensive stock as well - just try to avoid a situation where you're at risk of running out of components (particularly tires) and you should be fine without needing to invest thousands in fully stocking it and waiting a week to deplete your inventory to get that money back. In practice, this is small but quite low cost and low effort boost to your daily income.

In terms of profitability, fuel pumps don't boost your profitability but do boost your rate of income (ie, you'll sell the same amount of fuel at the same markup, just 2-3x faster). If your daily turnover isn't great and you aren't stockpiling, then you need to look at investing in things to boost it. Since you don't have to worry about use-by dates, that's not really a problem (as long as you don't eat the Chunky-O yourself), it just slows you down in the short-term. It isn't that you're not making profit, more that you're (arguably) over-investing that profit back into future inventory. If you try to max out stock on shelves, that can require a substantial investment when you upgrade your warehouse (suddenly you have room for all those extra bits that before you didn't have space to buy) and particularly so as you open and expand the garage, because those contents are particularly expensive and restocking from low can easily eat up 1-2 days' worth of profits. is this happening to anyone else? its not the way a business should work, spend all income on more supplies and make no profit?. Originally posted by Beas7mas7er69:every time i make some money i just have to spend it all on restocking everything and then im left with no profit.

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