Better product rating does not translate into market shares in saturated market

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Berbe
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Better product rating does not translate into market shares in saturated market

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This is a call to experts.

Consider the following situation:
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I objectively have a better product than both my opponents.
What dooms them is their brand rating, a corporate one with very good awareness (> 90) which is totally annihilated by loyalty (exact same absolute value, but negative) for both of them.

It is undistinguishable who's who due to the same color both use (and also inconveniently used by my Sell All 'Round subsidiary), but what is at stake here is my inability to get any production market share...
I crush both opponents overall rating & local market average rating (which is conveniently the same), but still unable to get my share of this saturated market.

Since the market is saturated, I was expecting to steal market share from my opponents thus putting a high pressure on them (and eventually pushing them out of the market).
What is happening is the perfect opposite: not a single sale made in any of my retail stores! They are all sitting dead ducks for 3 out of 4 products of this class, in every city.

For what it is worth, Escalade has another product class expertise, but Beer Apparel & Pur Treasure have the proper Apparel one.

What is happening here?
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williammgary1
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Re: Better product rating does not translate into market shares in saturated market

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1. This appears to be a bug so be prepared to share your save game, game version, mods and DLCs you're using.
2. Did you just open the store?
3. What's the custom traffic for the retail store compared to the other locations?


But its probably a bug.
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Re: Better product rating does not translate into market shares in saturated market

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Some where in your production line or supply chain is broken as result the retailer stores have no finished product to sell.
Berbe
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chengtsai wrote: Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:50 pm Some where in your production line or supply chain is broken as result the retailer stores have no finished product to sell.
Spot on.
How the hell did I miss that? I went crazy over complicated stuff leaving out the obvious...
Thanks!
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chengtsai wrote: Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:50 pm Some where in your production line or supply chain is broken as result the retailer stores have no finished product to sell.
Damn lol
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