Guide

Catching a shoplifter in time

How to react to a shoplifter in Supermarket Simulator using the warning the game already gives you, instead of finding out about the loss after the goods have left the building.

Applies to

1.6.0 (223), read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

A shop with customers coming through the door
The door detector in place
Someone free to watch the shop rather than just the till

Steps

Watch the warning indicator and not only the checkout queue.
the game keeps a shoplifter indicator of its own
Act on the warning rather than waiting for the door to tell you.
the warning is raised with a delay rather than the moment the theft starts
Keep the door detector working instead of treating it as decoration.
the game ships a detector built for the shop door
Learn the behaviour in the tutorial rather than meeting it for the first time in a busy shop.
the game introduces it through a tutorial shoplifter
Decide how much of it you want before your shop grows.
shoplifter frequency is a setting that can be enabled or left off

Common mistakes

Waiting for the door to sound before doing anything.
Treating every customer as a thief.
Turning the behaviour on and then never watching the shop floor.

Related entries

In-game picture of a customer standing in the street outside the shop from Supermarket Simulator, used to illustrate Shoplifters and the door detector.

CustomersShoplifters and the door detectorA shoplifter is its own kind of behaviour in the game.

In-game picture of a customer standing in the street outside the shop from Supermarket Simulator, used to illustrate Customers and helpers.

CustomersCustomers and helpersCustomers are generated by the game.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.