Supermarket Together: How to Manage Employees

Supermarket Together is a grocery store simulator game where you start from scratch and get a chance to build your superstore from the ground up. From stocking your shelves with products, setting up pricing, and even hiring staff, the game gives you plenty of tools to play however you see fit.

While the game starts off easy, with limited products to manage and a handful of customers to care for, things pick up pace as soon as you get through the initial few days. Things get easier when you’ve got friends helping you out, but hiring and managing employees effectively is the key to success for solo players. In this guide, we’ll tell you all you need to know about hiring employees and managing them properly in Supermarket Together.

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How to Hire Employees in Supermarket Together

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To hire an employee in Supermarket Together, you’ll first have to unlock an Employee perk from the Franchise Board using Franchise Points. It’s this game’s version of experience points, and you earn them daily while checking out customers. The game also shows you how many Franchise Points you earned in the end-of-day report when you close up shop, depending on your profits. There are a total of 12 Employee perks that you can acquire by spending Franchise Points.

Each Employee perk allows you to hire an additional employee.

Once you’ve acquired an Employee perk, head to the Manager Blackboard in the Manager’s Room and switch to the Employees tab. To hire an employee, click on the Hire button. You’ll now see a list of employees available for hire, their overall rating, and their daily wages.

You can click the reroll button to get a fresh batch of candidates.

Clicking on each employee brings up the Employee’s Stats window, which breaks down their expertise in individual sectors. You can also assign a name to your employee by filling in the text box under the stats. Once you find an employee you want, click the Hire button to add them to your payroll.

To fire an employee, switch to the Dismiss tab, click on the employee you want to let go of, and select Dismiss.

How to Assign Employees in Supermarket Together

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After hiring an employee, they will go to the Staff Room outside the store near the exit from the Manager’s Room. They will stay there until you assign them a task. To assign a task to your employee, head back to the Manager Blackboard and click on the Assignment button in the Employees tab.

All your hired employees will show up in this tab. Click the No Task button below their stats and choose what you want them to do. Currently, you can assign your employees to do the following tasks in Supermarket Together:

No Task: The employee will do nothing and just wait in the Staff Room.
Cashier: The employee will man an empty cash register and collect payments from the customers
Restocker: The employee will restock empty product shelves with products from the Storage Shelves.
Storage: The employee will fill up the Storage Shelves with new products after you place a Product Order.
Security: The employee will pick up a Broom and stand guard at the store’s entrance to deal with shoplifters and thieves.

How to Manage Employee Happiness in Supermarket Together

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At the moment, the happiness of your employees doesn’t matter too much in Supermarket Together. As long as they have the right stats for it, they will continue working on your assigned task. However, to ensure your staff members are as happy as they can be, you’ll have to spend money towards developing the Staff Room.

Assigning them to tasks that are suited to their skills also improves employee happiness.

Developing the Staff Room can be done by heading to the location and switching to the Staff Room tab in the Build menu. Add a few pieces of furniture and watch the happiness of your employees go up. Small, cheap items like a Basic Table or Chair can raise Employee Happiness by 0.1, while bigger investments such as a Dart Board or Pool Table can have a bigger impact on Staffroom Happiness.

The Employee tab on the Manager Blackboard shows the total Staffroom Happiness.

Finding success in Supermarket Together requires careful planning and management. The number of customers that come flooding in, especially in higher-difficulty settings, can be managed a lot easier when you’ve got a few employees helping out around the store.