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With ''[[The Sims 4: Get to Work]]'', Sims can once again have their own retail businesses. With ''[[The Sims 4: Dine Out]]'' Sims can have their own [[Restaurant#The Sims 4: Dine Out|restaurants]], which are run much like retail businesses.

Sims can buy community lots. With [[The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs|''The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs'']], Sims can become a [[veterinarian]] and run a vet clinic. [[Magnolia Promenade]], which is a new neighborhood provided in ''Get To Work'' has community lots which are pre-made as businesses. While on an owned lot, Sims can call for other NPC Sims to become [[employee]]s.

===Type of Shop===

With ''The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs'' expansion pack installed, Sims can become a veterinarian and run a clinic, perform pet surguries as giving treatments to [[cat]]s and [[dog]]s.

===Managing a Retail Store===

The simplest way of managing the store is through the [[Owned Businesses Panel|Owned Business Panel]] located in the bottom right of the UI, next to Needs. From this panel, players can manage a Sim's retail store or restaurant as they would with a Register. The Business Panel shows each lot's name, whether it is open or closed, and how many Sim-hours the business has stayed open for.

When the store is Closed, Players can change the Price Markup (this adds a percentage of money added onto the normal Objects price range), Players can see their Total Items Sold, Outgoing costs (this is if the Sim has bought Advertisements) and Net Profit (Overall Profit from Selling, restocking and Employee Wage), Players can also transfer Retail funds from one Household to the Retail Lot (this is helpful if Sims have multiple Retail Lots and which to supply a certain lot with certain amounts of money), Players can Access [[Business perk#The Sims 4: Get to Work|Retail Perks]], Manage Employees (hiring, firing and seeing Employees Skills), Managing Employees outfits and the final button on the retail Panel is to Sell the Store.[[File: Business Panel Selection.png|thumb|257x257px]]When the Store is Open most buttons appear on display except Players cannot change the Price Markup while open as well as Sell the Store. Another Button appears in the Panel which is the View Financial Report which shows a more detailed window for the Stores Profits of Income and Expenditures.

Players can also select options on what Business they want to manage, they can only select one active Business at a time between a Retail business or a Restaurant business. From the options Sims can purchase a Restaurant or a Retail Store, as well as purchase more than one of each.{{Clear}}

[[File:Retail Register Interactions.png|thumb|330x330px]]

The other way of managing a store and is the more immersive way is to use the Register which is the only required object to have a Retail Lot. This has most of the options that come with the Retail Panel but has the added features of Purchasing Advertising for Short-Term or Long-Term which can help bring in more customers, another option with Register is that the Player can select to have all Objects on sale to display a red price tag icon, this is helpful to find out if a Player missed out on an Object to put up for sale.

[[File:Retail_Interactions.png|thumb|325x325px]]

Customers will enter the lot and will walk to a random object or mannequin of their liking, a bar above their head will showcase their interest to buy. Getting it to the top is when the customer will decide to purchase the goods and an employee or the owner can ring them up.

Employees and the owner have special interactions towards their customer under the Retail selection in the interaction pie menu.

Managing a Restaurant is slightly different to how it is managing a Retail Business as there are certain jobs for the employees, food critiques, satisfying the customers and checking if the employees are doing okay.

===Future Content===

A tweet from SimGuruGraham replied stating that Get To Work's business aspect will grow with added expansion packs, which means more shops to put up, new businesses such as restaurants, and objects for businesses.<ref>https://twitter.com/SimGuruGraham/status/575360497169534976</ref>