The ultimate Supermarket Together Guide

This guide will have many tips tested for the current game version (17/09/2024).

important help: The game only saves when you end the day! I recommend finishing everything before closing the shop. If you leave at 8:00, you won't save anything.

Supermarket Together is a game designed for 1 to 16 players, where you need to develop your supermarket by purchasing new types of products and expanding the space. You also need to maintain cleanliness, ensure the employees work efficiently, keep an eye on inflation, and monitor the amount of butter in the fridge.

Basics

We start with a balance of 5k, a small store, and the ability to buy several products. Products are purchased in the main room here:

Supermarket together main house

To the left of this screen, there's a tablet where you can place decorations, especially useful for lighting. Above the tablets, you have the skill tree.

Supermarket together board

Opposite the scanner, you can adjust prices and manage staff with menus for starting and ending the workday.

Supermarket together unit

There is also a menu for expanding the territory, which you’ll use a few times at the beginning and then forget about.

Supermarket together minu

Difficulty 0 - 7

The difficulty ranges from 0 to 7, increasing the number of clients and their orders.

e.g. : Difficulty 7 (hardest) = You will have many clients with $20-60 orders. You will need more supplies and a faster cashier (until level 3), which is quite hard to manage solo, so invite a friend or two. Trust me.

Once you unlock more bots, they will take care of the work, so don't worry.

Purchasing Products

At the beginning, you need to place a few shelves (build with Tab) and stock them with products. New products will appear on the left side of the purchasing menu.

Supermarket together shelf

On the product, the red square shows how much is on the shelves, the green square shows the stock in the warehouse, and the yellow square shows what's on the spawn, along with which type of shelf it belongs to, indicated at the top right. Here's a nuance: if a player or a worker (we'll talk about them later) picks up a box with products, they will no longer be visible on the shelves or in the warehouse. So, it's better to restock first and then transport items to the warehouse or store. More on inflation in the farming section.

Upgrades/Workers

Now about the "skill tree." For any action, you earn company points, and after accumulating enough, you receive skill points that you can use to upgrade branches.

Here, you can unlock new products, workers, and bonuses. A small tip: I recommend getting a worker first, then +10% at the cashier, but you don't have to follow this path. It will just make things easier early on. Bots will work faster, and if you have to handle it yourself, it quickly gets tedious. Additionally, with the upgrade, workers will magically earn money, making them essential guardians of the cash registers. The current maximum skill level is 36. After that, you'll continue earning upgrade points, but you won't be able to spend them.

Boost the cashier

At first, the bot cashier will be slow. Even if you unlock the speed-up skills, it will still be too slow.

To avoid this, there's a fun trick to boost the cashier (in addition to the boosts you can buy through the skill tree).

The tip is simple: you just need to scan (click) each item yourself. All bots are slow at scanning, but you can do it much faster.

Prevent bots from filling empty shelves

When you assign a worker to restocking, they will fill all the shelves. To prevent this, place an item, remove it, and then right-click with the price tool on the empty shelf where you don’t want the bot to stock anything.

Set prices with your keyboard

You can use your numpad to set prices. Simply look at the item, type the amount, and press Enter or left-click.

Farming

Maybe you skipped other sections and jumped straight here because your goal is to get the achievement and delete the game from your PC as quickly as possible. Set the price to 2x.

What I mean is that 2x is the maximum price at which customers won’t complain about the high cost of products. (If the price is 4, you can set it to 8; if it’s 0.99, you can set it to 1.98). No one stops you from raising it by a few extra cents or even charging a fortune for a pack of cheese. But there’s no point—better to have two people buy at 2x than one person pay a bit more, and the other buy nothing at all. Also, don't forget about inflation. In my experience, prices rise after Wednesday, on Thursday morning, for certain products. However, in the early stages, you don’t need to worry about this too much, as prices start to rise about 2-3 weeks after new products are introduced.

Tips

  • If you have a Numpad, you don’t have to struggle with setting prices by scrolling the mouse wheel by 0.01 anymore. Just type in the amount and press Enter on the Numpad. If you don’t have a Numpad, holding the E button while scrolling will adjust the price by 0.2 (for non-math people: that’s 20 cents instead of 1 by default).

  • I forgot to mention the boxes. If you bring them to one of the containers across the street, you’ll get $1.50, or $6 if the skill is upgraded (which is pointless by the end of the game). In the beginning, while you're trying to earn up to 5k, this can speed up the game a little.

During the game, you may feel like you're breaking even, but this happens until about level 20. This is because you quickly acquire new products early on and thus spend a lot on them and on the shelves for them. This significantly impacts your wallet. However, as I said, over time, this feeling will go away, and the profit will become noticeable.