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What a day's profit is actually made of

Where profit in Supermarket Simulator comes from: market cost, the price you display, the margin behind it, discounts, offers, expenses and the day's record.

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

Steps

  1. Start from the cost the market tracks, not from the number on the shelf.
    the market keeps a product cost and a displayed price as separate values, so the two can move apart without you changing a tag
  2. Treat the displayed price as a decision of its own, made on the pricing screen rather than copied from the cost.
    prices are set on a canvas of their own through a price manager and evaluated by a manager of their own before a change is announced
  3. Use the margin the pricing screen computes instead of working it out from memory.
    the screen computes the margins it needs through a delegate of its own
  4. Count a discount against what you receive, not as a different shelf price.
    discounts are a separate system with their own panel, current discount and rate
  5. Count a wholesale offer against what you pay for stock, not as extra profit.
    offers run through their own manager, carry a kind and a time limit, and are accepted rather than applied automatically
  6. Check whether buying in bulk actually lowered the unit cost before you count the saving.
    bulk buying carries a discount ratio of its own rather than being free of cost
  7. Expect some goods to reprice themselves, and read the new price before you judge the margin.
    there is a kind of product whose price is dynamic rather than fixed
  8. Read the day's profit from the day's own record, not from the amount of money in the till.
    the game tracks a daily profit and keeps a daily record, a manager and a screen of its own for it
  9. Take the shop's running costs and any automatically paid bills off the day before you call the rest profit.
    recurring costs are a system of their own with types and records, and bills can be settled automatically through their own manager and canvas
  10. Keep borrowed money out of the profit figure and plan for the repayment that follows it.
    a loan carries a status and its own payments tab, a repayment keeps a remaining payment count, and automatic payments record how they were made

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Sources

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