In general, this is a somewhat low-quality game that is quite slow paced, as far as progressing goes. It's a lot of repetitive tasks with minimal strategy. That being said, however, it is fun in it's own right, despite the annoying things I list below. There's not a lot of pressure or stress, customers don't leave if they have to wait for anything, there's nothing complicated to understand, and overall it's just very laid back. I would put it in line with Power Washing Simulator. It boots up and loads very quickly, so I enjoy playing it when I only have maybe 20-30 minutes of free time. While it's definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, for those of us who just want to let our brains fly on auto-pilot for a few, this is a solid enough choice. There's also no story line, so this is simply just a game of managing a store and making it grow.
Strategy involves things such as when to close and restock (though, people will come day and night so it's not REALLY an issue when you close), where's the best place for your employee (stocking, checkout, etc), easiest layout, how much to order and when, etc.
You can only order 9 items individually at a time, but you can set up bulk orders that contain up to any combo of 36 items. There are presets, but you can make your own as well, which is nice.
The annoying things: Bulk items come in a crate. YOU have to click the crate to open it before employees will start shelving, otherwise, they'll just stand there doing nothing. Kind of annoying when you set up a run of deliveries so you can do other things, because you have to keep coming back and clicking the crates. Eventually you can get a forklift and can unload the whole crate into the warehouse, but holy cow, the forklift is a pain in the @## to use, and by the time I would get the crate into the warehouse, it would have been just as fast (sometimes faster) to have employees unload it from the truck.
There are only maybe 5 or 6 different customers and between them all, they have a grand total of about 6 lines, so you'll hear the same lines and see the same people over, and over, and over, and over. My favorite (and I say this sarcastically) is "I think I'll use my credit card!" as they hand over cash. Weirdly, this only seems to be a thing for the first levels, and as my store got bigger, it happened less and less frequently, which is weird.
You only get 2 employees every few levels; 1 will work days, the other nights. You will get a grand total of 10 employees, and it will never feel like quite enough. The first two are pretty slow moving, but each one gets progressively faster. It would be nice if they ALL got faster, but no. By the time you have 10, the first two are still moving at sloth speed.
Employees don't use the handcart, which holds 8 boxes at a time. They restock 1 box at a time and it starts to take FOREVER as the store grows. There's also no rhyme or reason as to what they restock, so they might take a full box to a shelf that's missing 1 or 2 items, while other shelves are almost empty.
There is 0 point to the box crusher other than achievements. You never have to empty the regular trash bins, the crusher closes and crushes every so often for about 10 seconds so you have to wait till it's done to throw more in, and it doesn't give you any benefits that I could see, and it takes up a LOT of space. Not sure what the point of it is.
