Uneven supply/demand, good location=less sales?

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Mack
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Uneven supply/demand, good location=less sales?

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I'm fairly new to this game and I'm scratching my head constantly, but with this I'm really banging my head against the wall.

So I have 3 stores in the same city selling the same gold rings imported from the same warehouse and all 3 stores sell at the same price.
Now the thing is, 2 stores are emptying their shelves rapidly with a HUGE demand (same demand on both stores) these two stores both have a traffic rating around 60.
The third store has about 50% demand vs. supply, and is barely selling anything, this store has a traffic rating above 80.

My market share is about 50%. All stores use the same layout with 2 purchase, 7 sales units.

If there is such a huge demand for my gold rings, shouldn't the store in the attractive location increase in demand along with the other 2? Say if I control 100% of the market, then the stores in the locations with lower traffic rating suffer sales first, right?

Also tried fast forwarding as the supply/demand bars take a long time to update. Months later, no change.

Would realy appritiate it if someone would help shed some light on this. Is it a bug or am I missing something?
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Re: Uneven supply/demand, good location=less sales?

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Are levels of sales units the same? Units with higher levels operate more efficiently = able to sell more.
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Re: Uneven supply/demand, good location=less sales?

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rmax wrote:Are levels of sales units the same? Units with higher levels operate more efficiently = able to sell more.
The store with lower demand has better sales units, but that can't be it. The store is selling less quantity even with better sales units. Like I said, shelves are always full.

Only things i can think of why one store would sell less is if the rings sold har different prices or quality. But they are exacly the same.
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Maybe screenshots or savegame may help a bit to find out what is the matter.
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Re: Uneven supply/demand, good location=less sales?

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I noticed the problem now, you were right the first time I just looked at the wrong store. The high traffic rated store store with 7 level 6 sales units was selling a quantity of 1400 while the two stores with 7 level 1 units was selling 1200, that explains the supply/demand bars.

But why are all the sales units utilization bars at 100% in the level 6 store? I thought 100% meant the unit is "outputing" at max capacity, or is the sales unit utilized even tho no sales are being made?
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