- Relaxing
- Good simulation of the amount of work and constant movement that goes into a store
- Realistic sounds (placing things, loading things, checkout beeps, self checkout helper)
- Plenty of cool looking and unique products with different box quantities and prices
- 25 store levels each with multiple new products to keep you grinding and even unlockable store customization
- Funny customer designs and dialogue constantly keeps it feeling silly
- Weather that sounds and looks pretty good. The realistic rain with thunder made for some cozy nights stocking up and the dust storms added something fresh when I wouldn't expect it
- Really quick and enjoyable movement. So many of these simulator games slow your character down and not let you move how you would want which can be very frustrating. Here, there is good speed and even a nice jump that can actually be useful to hop around even quicker
- Nice co-op experience with friends, giving each other different tasks is really enjoyable to play out
- AWESOME and SATISFYING manual checkouts mechanic. I really enjoyed the sounds and speed of the checkouts while doing them. It made me not want to give it up when playing with friends and it made me keep a manual checkout in the store closed but ready so I could do some whenever I was bored or just feeling it
- Ability to make bulks and customize them with whatever you wanted was very nice. It kept me thinking about ways to be even more efficient with different ideas throughout (1 of each product bulks, drink only bulks, 8 of each product bulks to fill an entire storage shelf). Also the names appearing on the pallets was not only a cool detail but REALLY helped when ordering a lot of them and trying to keep them organized to put away quicker

- Lot of glitches (things getting stuck in each other, pallets going through forklift, forklift lifting off of ground, employees picking up box and dropping it somewhere to then pick up and put away again, etc.)
- Using forklift for pallets as alluded to above is HORRIBLE, multiple occasions pallets glitched into the prongs on the forklift and either A. Lifted the forklift off the ground with a lot of force and created a mess B. Flung the pallet into the air and away from me C. Kept stuttering the pallet and then it would fall off the forklift prongs and land sideways or even flipped upside down (which was very annoying to try to fix) on the ground. Best solution is to only move EXTREMELY SLOW while pallet is on which is not practical when 25-30 pallets need to get unloaded
- Workers cant keep up with demand. Point blank 5 workers per shift is NOWHERE close to enough and the store ends up running fulling out of products every single time even when there is plenty of stock in the back room
- Adding on to the complaint above, it is almost MANDATORY to close the store just to let them restock. I eventually just left the store open 24/7 but then you would just constantly hear customers complaining and either leaving immediately or buying literally in some cases 1 item for less than a dollar and wasting my time
- New layout for deliveries is really bad, its very cramped and outside the front door of the entire store which leads to awkward movement and customers constantly in the way with cars or their bodies
- Not a lot of customization. Some lights, Christmas tree and cardboard cutouts are nice but you don't get the chance to make the store feel like its truly "yours" in my opinion
- Only 36 items per Bulk. This is fine for early and even mid-game but in the late game (16-25) there is never enough of each and every item which leads to constant orders
- Really bad motion blur that you cant turn off made the game hard to look at for more than an hour at a time
- Late game even with low settings can get decently laggy/slow. I don't think this was ever too bad tbh but is worth mentioning it would keep me from doing too much at a time in the late game

It is a decently solid game that is fun solo or with friends. I love simulators and while this one did frustrate me a LOT at times I did enjoy the slow build-up of the store. Getting new products, changing prices, moving shelves around, changing workers to a new task all lead to a hectic and somewhat satisfying journey. There are things such as the max of 5 workers per shift, bulks not being big enough, delivery location, pallets glitching with the forklift that all DRASTICALLY made the experience way less fun. I found myself not wanting to keep playing after the 50ish hour mark due to constant frustration and inability to let the store run itself properly without having issues. I left it open in the background a lot and just would clean up the mess after a bit just to get the final achievements and finish the store sizes and levels. It is a great game up until around the store level 14-15 mark and after that it becomes a frustrating glitchy mess. I would recommend it for the relaxing and chill early to mid game vibes but not anything after lol.

Grocery Store Simulator is surprisingly fun and addictive. Building up your own little supermarket, stocking shelves, and managing customers is way more satisfying than I expected. It’s relaxing but still gives you a sense of progression and achievement.

That said, a few things could be improved – the controls can feel clunky at times, and some tasks get repetitive. Adding more automation or macro options would make the mid- to late-game much smoother.

Overall, it’s a great game for anyone who likes management sims, and I’m excited to see what future updates will bring.

I think ill use my credit card