New Feature: Retail Store Fleet Management

[scott499]

Introduces mechanism for making changes to multiple retail stores at once.

- All retail stores remain managed individually by default.
- Any retail store of the same type within the same company may be linked together to form a fleet.
- New options in retail store [Create Retail Fleet], [Join Retail Fleet]
- When creating a new fleet of stores the originating store becomes a Flagship store. Fleet can be renamed from the Flagship store.
Any changes made to units in the Flagship store will reflect across all stores within the fleet.
- When viewing a non-flagship fleet store, you will only be able to view units, any attempted changes will trigger a prompt to jump to the Flagship store that leads this location.
- All stores within a fleet show the name of the fleet in list views.

With this new mechanism, products and their respective prices can be changed across dozens of stores in one action, allowing for large chains to efficiently adapt to changes in the market and introduce new products over time without the need to update each store individually, which is quite time consuming as the number of retail stores increases.

[Stylesjl]

Introduces mechanism for making changes to multiple retail stores at once.

- All retail stores remain managed individually by default.
- Any retail store of the same type within the same company may be linked together to form a fleet.
- New options in retail store [Create Retail Fleet], [Join Retail Fleet]
- When creating a new fleet of stores the originating store becomes a Flagship store. Fleet can be renamed from the Flagship store.
Any changes made to units in the Flagship store will reflect across all stores within the fleet.
- When viewing a non-flagship fleet store, you will only be able to view units, any attempted changes will trigger a prompt to jump to the Flagship store that leads this location.
- All stores within a fleet show the name of the fleet in list views.

With this new mechanism, products and their respective prices can be changed across dozens of stores in one action, allowing for large chains to efficiently adapt to changes in the market and introduce new products over time without the need to update each store individually, which is quite time consuming as the number of retail stores increases.

Sounds like an interesting idea, while it is normally possible to set the prices across retail stores easily enough, the product selections are rather annoying if you ever have to change which products you want to sell and it would be good to try and create a kind of chain store effect with a uniform product/price selection (like a real world chain store system).