Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

Please see this article for more info about specialty stores: https://www.capitalismlab.com/new-conte ... hancement/

Is there any different specialty bonus? I thought department stores just have greater throughput (like 2.5-3x to make up for size).

Besides selling in small towns, general stores make for great advertising offices. I usually have one in each city for that reason, if I'm not doing corporate brand.

The general store has lower startup and operating costs, but isn't able to move as many units. It's a cheap way to get started. It was introduced along with CES because it was realized when starting a city from scratch, demand for goods will be low and they needed a cheaper store that could sell any item without incurring high overhead.

I havent really found a need for the general store in a pre-built city, unless I didn't do so well in my advanced stock-purchase phase and need to save capital.

Attraction. How much clients it can serve is based on how much the store can stock on products (At least, that's what I've notices). Specialized stores have a bonus when attracting costumers.

Do you mean that it can service less customers, or that it actually attracts less than a department store?

Because gthe more specialized a store is the more people it attracts. General stores have less clients than a department store and even less than a specialized store.

I may be being rather stupid here ... but could anyone tell me why I would ever go for a department store if the general store is cheaper and can house more product types?