Currently, all the products sold in the retail business are kind of ‘prefab’. All the products are sold directly to the customers. This works very well on most of the businesses in this game. However, the current implementation of retail business creates difficulties in designing new businesses and products since they will be similar to what is already in the game. Implementing the system that allows the production of some products inside the retail business is beneficial for the future extension of the business type and products.
Take coffee shops as an example. This new system will allow coffee beans to be delivered to the coffee shop, and employees(could be a new type of employee) use a coffee machine to turn it into a cup of coffee. Then, a better option for introducing new products can be implemented by this system: the employees can make other kinds of coffee (espresso, latte, cappuccinos …). This would be much more realistic and convenient than importing lattes or building an espresso factory.
On the aspect of business type, this system could introduce new businesses such as restaurants(not fast food restaurants) to the game, allowing it to have better gameplay and differentiate it from the current retail business.