Two fixes straight from the playtest reports. • Extending your shop no longer plants a wall in the middle of the car park. Bays the building takes are cleared properly and handed back to you, and a car parked on one drives home instead of sitting in your aisle. • Checkout queues are honest now. A shopper still walking to a till used to count as queueing and give up somewhere in the aisles, so a big store kept being told to open more checkouts for a queue that was never there. Patience is spent standing in line, where it belongs.

The shop goes up a floor. There’s a car park outside it. And everyone in the aisles is new: sixteen characters, re-modelled and re-animated. UPSTAIRS • Build a second storey and connect it with stairs or an escalator — shoppers climb up, browse, and come back down to queue. From the street, the shop is a building now. • Open a clothing floor above the groceries: rails, knitwear tables, coats that sell all winter, and mannequins downstairs to say what’s up there. Slow-moving, high-ticket, and nobody price-checks a coat. THE CAR PARK • Pave it bay by bay. A car turns in off the street, parks, and someone gets out of it. • Bays are the ceiling on how big a crowd the shop can hold. When they’re what’s holding you back, the day summary says so, and how many bays you’re short. SIXTEEN NEW FACES • Eight shoppers, and a matched pair for each of the four jobs — every one a new model with new animation. • Each job has its own uniform, so you can tell a cashier from a stocker across the floor. • Everyone walks at their own pace. The elderly shopper dawdles, the stocker is brisk, the guard patrols slowly — a full shop looks like a crowd instead of one person copied twenty times. THE BACK ROOM IS A PLACE NOW • Put a stockroom on the floor and your stockers walk to it, pick stock up and carry it to the shelf, instead of stock appearing out of nowhere. • A loading dock shortens delivery times, and the back room grows with the shop. PRICES AND PROMOTIONS • Every department has its own price sensitivity. Bread gets checked against the shop down the road every day; a T-shirt does not. So each department has its own best price now, and the season moves it. • A promotion lifts demand and pulls shoppers toward that department, instead of just donating margin. THE CREW • The coffee kiosk is a break room. Crew rest there and morale comes back on a calm day, not only when you pay a bonus. FRANCHISING KEEPS THE SHOP • Franchise a finished store and you keep it: it gets its own save, you can go back and stand in it, and it pays you a share of its daily profit for good. It no longer costs you the store. FIXED • No more strips of road showing through the shop floor • The car park is one continuous surface instead of a patchwork of bays • Shoppers and crew walk instead of gliding • The camera no longer jumps when you lift a finger mid-pan, and the column down the right edge is three buttons instead of seven • Closing time empties the shop — yesterday’s shoppers are no longer standing in the aisles this morning • The daily challenge no longer asks for 15% more than yesterday, every day, forever

Your playtest feedback, built in: • Try a repaint before you pay — nothing is charged until you confirm. • Panels are narrower and fold away; pan the camera with two fingers. • Tap the star to see exactly what moved your rating, and the season to see what sells this week and what's coming. • Prices shows the local market price and a 7-day trend; a new Demand tab shows which departments shoppers want. • Hiring: choose between three applicants instead of a random hire. • Cameras and bins show their reach when you place them. • Levels 5–8 unlock sweets, wine, an apéritif corner, a bulk aisle, fine foods and a café kiosk. Self-checkouts have their own machine. • Rent now says how many tiles it covers.

After your first level-up, FreshMart now asks what you think of the game. A rating helps other shopkeepers find it. Thank you for playing!