There's a good core gameplay loop here, but it's in need of some serious refinement.

1) There are too many annoying bugs. Nothing game breaking that I've found, but there's a couple in particular that irritate me. Like occasionally you'll get a customer delivery order with no notification. In this scenario, bringing up the bag shows the incorrect number of delivery orders in progress. You can still fill the order, but you need to be constantly checking to make sure one didn't slip in. Also, there's a bug with the car where about 2/3 of the time, putting a box in the trunk also causes you to enter the car, which is *really* annoying when you're trying to load up a bunch of boxes, which you'll have to do because......

2) The game gets *very* tedious about 10 hours in. Once you unlock a vehicle, you'll realize that you effectively *need* to get your products from the other stores around town, because they all sell goods at half their market value. This is the only realistic way to make money after a certain point because your employee and bill costs get too high to manage on the margins afforded by ordering your goods online. The problem is, getting goods from these stores is insanely time-inefficient. There's no way to create a meaningful shopping list to take with you (you *can* use the product scanner to sorta create one, but it doesn't work at the other stores so you're constantly flipping to and from it just to look at whatever you added to it). It effectively becomes a memory game for what you need to get, and beyond that, the vehicles only fit so much, so you end up spending 10-15 minutes at the start of every day driving back and forth to these stores, which completely invalidates the product scanner, which was one of the best things they added to the release game.

3) The game forces you to automate away your agency. I know a lot of people are gonna say "well, just don't do that then" and you'd be right, if it weren't for the delivery orders that only you can do. None of the other jobs (save cleaning) can be left unattended when you're doing multiple deliveries per day. You will need, at the bare minimum, one cashier, one assistant, one security guard, and every restocker the game will let you unlock. Otherwise your store will cease to function while you're away. I think a good fix for this, ironically, is to add another automated employee: the delivery driver who can do deliveries for you. Then, rather than allowing the player to unlock as many employees as they want, instead have a max employee count that scales with level, and it's up to you to decide how to allocate those slots among the different employee types, leaving whatever task(s) the player finds most enjoyable for themselves. More customization is more good.

4) Restockers are still really annoying sometimes. I hate how you'll be trying to reorganize a shelf, and they'll come in and restock it before you can remove the tag, or fill a shelf before you can put stolen goods back onto it. There needs to be a grace period after the player interacts with a shelf, or some way to temporarily lock a shelf, that will prevent restockers from getting in your way.

5) XP and money gain are way out of whack with one another. You'll spend most of the game having a crazy excess of one while being severely bottlenecked by the other, creating long periods of mindless grinding before you can unlock new content, at which point the bottleneck will flip to the other resource, and the whole process will start anew. Some progression smoothing is needed, or some kind of system that lets you turn XP gain into money gain, or vice versa. Maybe some special kiosks around the store. Like, maybe a lottery scratcher machine that takes some of the money customers would otherwise spend on products (meaning you don't get it), but gives you bonus XP when they buy scratchers. Or an arcade cabinet that does the opposite, bonus money at the cost of XP. Just something that would let the player customize their resource gains in some way.

6) The game is begging for a talent tree of some kind. Supermarket Together has one, and while it's not perfect, it's certainly interesting.

I spent 6 hours straight playing this game, and I didn't even realize how much time had passed. Highly recommend.

best game for people like me (unemployed)