Just like a business in real life, spending more time in the game will definitely earn you more and beyond that, the management information that you can always check on in-game can guide you towards which activity to prioritize as far as improvements go.
Idle Supermarket Tycoon is an incredibly ad-heavy experience for those that want to progress through the game quickly. You can watch ads to generate new customers, speed up your workers, and increase how much customers will spend in your supermarket. If you want to progress quickly, we recommend watching ads as often as you can.
Check in on the red exclamation point in the top right corner every now and then. As you may also subconsciously miss out on this and the gems that it rewards for completing short and simple missions, make it a habit early on to work towards achieving missions early on.
Whichever mission is active at the time, try to complete it ASAP so you can earn all the extra cash and gems they award you. Although you can only take on missions one at a time, some of these missions are achievable even if you do nothing. Missions usually involve clicking on a certain number of delivery trucks or tending to a certain number of customers. As soon as you claim rewards for completing a mission, a new one instantly pops up. There will be a lot of instances where the mission presented is an objective you have already completed. In such cases, you will simply need to click on the claim button and rack up on gems that you need to buy more epic upgrades.
There is a tool icon at the bottom of your screen which you may misinterpret as the settings menu. Clicking on it will take you to the Epic Upgrades page where you can spend all those hard-earned gems for a variety of permanent improvements to your supermarket. Focus on getting the types of Epic Upgrades that primarily deal with financial upgrades, such as Tax Cuts, Labor Subsidy, and VIP Marketing. As for the rest of the Epic Upgrades, feel free to go with whenever upgrades you feel deserves more attention. Reducing the improvement costs for your departments is the best way to go next.
Not all customers actually visit the store. Just like a modern supermarket, many of your customers will choose to ship to your door. You can collect these profits regularly by checking the special truck parking lot. It's easy to forget about this, but the profit is very impressive.These trucks appear one at a time and can stack to a maximum of 4 if you neglect to click on them. Depending on your profitability, these trucks instantly give out huge sums of cash that can help you with all the required upgrades that you constantly need to work on. Be sure to make it a habit of scrolling past your supermarket walls to check on these trucks every now and then.
From bakeries to meat departments, you can buy any type of store. Upgrading them is crucial. If you want to upgrade productivity, you will need to hire an extra employee. Make sure to upgrade his/her salary upon all additional upgrades.As you progress through the game, the Express Lane upgrade will become more and more important. Though the products will be more and more expensive, it will also take longer to serve customers, especially in the jewelry and electronics departments. So make sure you focus on this upgrade.Apart from upgrading the stands, you should also make sure to upgrade your parking and parking spot. This will keep customers coming in. Investing in advertising is sure to win you a bigger number of customers per minute.
Changing city basically resets your progress in exchange for a serious boost in profits. We recommend doing this literally the moment you can afford it, as it’s easily the most effective method of boosting your profits.
Running an ad campaign simply requires you to watch an ad to get an hours worth of double revenue, and you can increase this up to six hours by watching further ads. Keep this up at all times as it’s a solid free method of boosting your income.
If you are going to be inactive for a good while or going to sleep, make sure to keep your phone’s screen active. By doing so, your offline earnings will collect indefinitely. Unless you are using General Manager which allows you to collect your offline earnings for 10 hours, your offline earnings collect only for 2 hours. By keeping the game active overnight, you will manage to amass a huge amount of money.