Challenge FAQ
Easy lowers the net-worth goal and gives demand/cost help. Standard keeps the normal model. Hard starts with less cash, higher costs, weaker demand, and a higher target.
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Watch inventory curation, events, staff recommendations, slow-moving stock, online competition, customer satisfaction, and cash before adding shelf sections or promotions.
Yes. Open the results screen and choose “Download results CSV.” The local file contains completed monthly evidence plus the current partial month, including operating settings, staffing, shopper demand, sales, recommendation quality, inventory fit, slow stock, costs, profit, cash, and net worth. Nothing is uploaded.
Keep learning Test your assumptions with our interactive tools: quantify margins in the Inventory Velocity & Turnover Lab or model operational bottlenecks in the Clearance Markdown Lab.
Use the Bookstore Simulator strategy guide for inventory, staffing, events, and slow-stock experiments; test price and margin with the pricing and profit simulation guide; trace slow stock and working cash with the cash-flow and break-even guide; compare events and demand in the marketing simulation guide; or use the student guide and printable worksheets.