Big Ambitions Fruit And Vegetable Store Guide Fruit And Vegetable Store

The main produce goes in wooden product crates, but lettuce has a smaller listed capacity than the rest. Check the per-item table before ordering the same amount of everything.

1. Opening steps#

1. Decide which products and services you will carry, and the space for them. Compare floor area, neighborhood and capacity in the building list with the actual lease terms. Check in game that a Fruit And Vegetable Store can open there before you sign.
2. Set the business type to Fruit And Vegetable Store. Check the requirements in the business management screen.
3. Prepare the equipment. Prepare the display equipment and stock for the products you chose. If you also sell a service, check that person's workstation and equipment separately.
4. Check shifts, supply and security. Beyond customer service and cleaning shifts, plan in time to check stock item by item.
5. Review the results once you open. Watch demand by hour, gaps in the schedule, stock-outs and the sales equipment, and adjust.

These steps are an editorial guide. The minimum floor area, the full list of required equipment, exact quantities and headcount have not been verified in game — check the business management screen as well.

2. Products, services and supply#

Main products

Display equipment and supply route per product

Product	Display equipment / capacity	Supply route	Lowest sale price / unit
Bag of Apples	Wooden Product Crateholds 50	6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationalssupply detailsfactory recipe	$2.89prices by neighborhood
Bag of Bananas	Wooden Product Crateholds 50	6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationalssupply detailsfactory recipe	$2.35prices by neighborhood
Bag of Carrots	Wooden Product Crateholds 50	6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationalssupply detailsfactory recipe	$2.24prices by neighborhood
Bag of Lettuce	Wooden Product Crateholds 25	6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationals, Lunar Tide Shipmentssupply detailsfactory recipe	$2.12prices by neighborhood
Bag of Pears	Wooden Product Crateholds 50	6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationalssupply detailsfactory recipe	$2.62prices by neighborhood
Bag of Tomatoes	Wooden Product Crateholds 50	6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationals, Lunar Tide Shipmentssupply detailsfactory recipe	$2.56prices by neighborhood

1 additional products

Display equipment and supply route per product

Product	Display equipment / capacity	Supply route	Lowest sale price / unit
Salad	Salad Barholds 350	6 wholesalersJetCargo Importssupply detailsfactory recipe	$13.00prices by neighborhood

Sale prices are reference values at 100% satisfaction with trained staff. Purchase data assumes default difficulty and a fully skilled purchasing manager, and can move with supply. A missing entry does not prove an item cannot be bought. We do not quote a margin from comparing wholesale and import prices that use different units.

3. Equipment and setup cost#

This links the display equipment from the product table, the staff workstations and the listed security equipment. It includes alternative displays and equipment for additional products, so it is not a shopping list. Read product capacity and customer capacity as two different things.

Equipment linked from the data — not a complete required list

Equipment	Why it is listed	Customer capacity	Lowest listed price / unit
Wooden Product Crate 1 unit counted in the example total	main product · Bag of Apples main product · Bag of Bananas main product · Bag of Carrots main product · Bag of Lettuce main product · Bag of Pears main product · Bag of Tomatoes	15	$150.00Square Appliances 1 stores Square Appliances · $150.00
Salad Bar	extra product · Salad	20	$4,000.00Square Appliances 1 stores Square Appliances · $4,000.00
Cash Register 1 unit counted in the example total	staff workstation · Customer Service	20	$900.00AJ Pederson & Son 4 stores AJ Pederson & Son · $900.00 Essential Appliances · $900.00 Hamptons Supplies · $900.00 Square Appliances · $900.00
Cleaning Station 1 unit counted in the example total	staff workstation · Cleaning	—	$100.00AJ Pederson & Son 4 stores AJ Pederson & Son · $100.00 Essential Appliances · $100.00 Hamptons Supplies · $100.00 Square Appliances · $100.00
Security Camera 1 unit counted in the example total	listed security equipment	—	$2,500.00Essential Appliances 2 stores Essential Appliances · $2,500.00 Hamptons Supplies · $2,500.00
Security Panel 1 unit counted in the example total	listed security equipment	—	$1,200.00Essential Appliances 2 stores Essential Appliances · $1,200.00 Red Carpet Décor · $1,200.00

The example total is neither the full startup cost nor a minimum requirement. It counts one unit each, without duplicates, of the first listed display equipment for every main product plus the staff workstations and security equipment that could be linked. Equipment only used by additional products is left out. Budget separately for rent, deposit, desks, chairs, other furniture, stock, delivery, wages and extra units as you grow.

4. Staff and shifts#

Staff roles listed in the source business data

Role	Listed workstation	Recruited at
Customer Service	Cash Register	Anderson Recruitment Corp.
Cleaning	Cleaning Station	Anderson Recruitment Corp.

Beyond customer service and cleaning shifts, plan in time to check stock item by item.

The listed roles are not a headcount. Build the schedule from the hours you actually open, the number of workstations and the contract terms, and check in game whether roles missing from the list are needed.

Listed security equipment: Security Camera · Security Panel.

5. Opening hours and footfall#

Averaging the daily figures hour by hour, 6:00 · 7:00 · 8:00 is the busiest slot, at 84.3%. That is the mean across all seven days — see the table below for the differences between days.

These are visitors as a share of maximum capacity, not revenue or margin. A 0% is a recorded value, not a closed hour. Blanks show as ‘—’. Set your real opening hours by weighing demand against wages and running costs.

6. Checks while running#