Hello all,
I have a question: why the supermarket needs 4 (four) workers? It doesn't seem to me that additional workers in the supermarket provide any benefit!
Is anyone able to calrify this?
Thanks and regards!

1. Stacking shelves;
2. Clean up in aisle 4;
3. Manager;
4. Putting the eggs at the bottom, under the watermelon.
   

edit: woo, forgot about lists

Aren't supermarkets one of the buildings that work just as well with 1 worker as it does with all 4?

If so just close off the work spaces. However I personally wouldn't want to run a supermarket by myself!

Related Question:

It was a common strategy to put markets near population centers so people wouldn't have to walk all the way to the farms to get food. Do supermarkets eliminate that need?

Yeah, as does the marketplace. Supermarket is even better because it has a really high food quality rating even if there isn't a huge variety of foods on the island.

I think 4 makes sense. High school educated, not so much. Most people working in stores (except positions of management) usually are students. Don't need a diploma to stock shelves. XD

(25-04-2012 02:40 PM)FordGT90Concept Wrote:  I think 4 makes sense. High school educated, not so much. Most people working in stores (except positions of management) usually are students. Don't need a diploma to stock shelves. XD

The original marketplace requires a high school educated worker, which kind of makes sense in that you need a head for figures to handle all those sales flying around.

For the supermarket, it probably represents management, refrigeration repairwomen and bookkeepers.
Presumably the shelf stackers are included in the 20-or-so people each Tropican citizen represents.

Tropico isn't really that consistent about education levels in work, considering Mortgage companies get by fine without high school educated managers and technicians.

True, the Business Center focuses on the worker drones as opposed to those in charge.

(25-04-2012 01:44 PM)astondb9 Wrote:  Aren't supermarkets one of the buildings that work just as well with 1 worker as it does with all 4?

If so just close off the work spaces. However I personally wouldn't want to run a supermarket by myself!

Is it true then? We can just close the extra 3 spaces?
I really wonder why they inserted 4 workers spaces if they provide no in-gam effects!

The number of workers does have a significance in the Supermarket. Mainly for the effects of its work modes.

(26-04-2012 03:24 PM)Lyubo_Haemimont Wrote:  The number of workers does have a significance in the Supermarket. Mainly for the effects of its work modes.

The work modes change food quality and life expectancy of the citizens.
I have checked that firing workers doesn't affect food quality; i.e. food quality of the supermarket is the same either with one or with four workers. You can try it yourself.
Perhaps the number of workers affects life expectancy? This I could not say. It would be good to have an official comment on this...

I think a lot of the buildings in MT have more worker slots because unemployment becomes an issue late-ish in the game. On the other hand, I don't mind have 4 Supermarket workers, as that's more people to choose from for economic minister--that is, a higher chance of finding someone with great attributes. I think for that position its only shopkeepers and customs-workers that are allowed, too, and in terms of the random bonuses that occur due to having a good minister, the economic chief gives by far the best.

(27-04-2012 10:33 AM)Teodosio Wrote:  

(26-04-2012 03:24 PM)Lyubo_Haemimont Wrote:  The number of workers does have a significance in the Supermarket. Mainly for the effects of its work modes.

The work modes change food quality and life expectancy of the citizens.
I have checked that firing workers doesn't affect food quality; i.e. food quality of the supermarket is the same either with one or with four workers. You can try it yourself.
Perhaps the number of workers affects life expectancy? This I could not say. It would be good to have an official comment on this...

You might notice the second half of his name seems familiar. I think that was as official as you'll get ...

edit: removing ambiguity