Shopping Street Strategy
83Shopping Street Strategy
"Shopping Street" is a free online flash game at Kongregate.com. It's like a tower defense game but instead of killing things you set up stores and collect money from customers. This general strategy shows you how to beat the game in case you're stumped. It is not the be-all end-all strategy, but it will get the job done.
How to Beat Shopping Street
Note: Since the levels get harder, this is for the higher levels where each building type is allowed. You can beat the last levels of New York with this strategy.
This game is pretty straightforward. The customers enter the left side of the screen and exit the right side. They each have a certain supply of money and your goal is to get as much of their money as possible. You do this by setting up shops. They will enter all shops that they approach provided it isn't already full of customers.
To me it seems the best strategy is to place the shops that have the fastest turnover (how long a customer stays in each shop), the highest prices (how much money you receive from each customer), and the highest capacity (how many customers the shop will hold) furthest to the left. Since each customer has a limited supply of cash, we want to take their money as quickly as we can and make room for more customers.
Here is the order that I place the stores, from left to right.
- Electronics store
- Market
- Jewelry shop
- Furniture store
- Pet shop
- Boutique
- Toy Store
- Restaurant
Since you can't purchase these stores in order, here is my general strategy.
Step 1- Build pet shop
First, set up a pet shop 5th place from the left and put a bench in front of it. The bench is cheap and stalls some of your customers.
Step 2- Build boutique, toy store
Now build a boutique and a toy store, from left to right. It shouldn't really matter the order that you build or upgrade. Once you have these three buildings, your next priority is to build an electronics store. I don't really have a set strategy for building newsstands, benches, advertisements, etc. I don't think they make a huge difference, so I just kind of mix and match. If you want, just copy what I did in these images.
Bus stop- I usually add the bus stop around day 8 or 9. This should be a priority once you can handle more customers.
Step 3- Build electronics store
Build an electronics store. Your goal is to build and upgrade both your electronics store and a market. I've added a jewelry store.
Step 4- Build Market, Upgrade max
Get your supermarket in as soon as you can and upgrade the electronics store and market before upgrading the other buildings. I've added a restaurant here, but you don't have to as it's pretty much worthless.
Step 5- Upgrade maximum additional buildings
You're on easy street now. As you get the cash, just upgrade the rest of your buildings to the maximum, the restaurant being your lowest priority. And that's it. Wait for the last day, and you should be able to beat any of the last levels.
Shopping Street stores
Above is an unofficial list of the buildings to help you determine which upgrades to make. The "VERY SLOW", "SLOW", "FAST", and "VERY FAST" are based only on observation.
And that's about it. Like I said, none of this is written in stone, so if you've got a better strategy, let us know in the comment section. If you enjoyed this post, you might also enjoy how to beat Pillage the Village. Thanks for reading.
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Hi Wes, I made a quick hub on how to beat level 13.
please a strategy to beat level 7 !!
If you build a pet shop and put two newspaper racks in front of it you will get a $1000 bonus on days 1 and 2. The extra cash allows you to build a boutique, third newspaper rack and three music ads on day 3 if you're fast. From there build/upgrade whatever is cheapest until you can afford the market. I put it right in front and upgrade it to the max since it holds tons of people and gets tons of cash right away
Oh sweet, thanks Nate. If anyone's not sure what he means by "in front of it" he means place the 2 newspaper racks directly underneath the pet shop. That's a much better starting strategy than mine above.
I tried your strategy, I was on lvl 11 with 96%...yeah, close, but I have yet to still beat the level.
Good plans, thanks for the guide. I've beaten the game, and oddly enough I find I have the best luck with the left-to-right order almost exactly reversed- that way, the very cheap, very slow restaurant acts to stall a large number of customers for the slower, more expensive stores. After all, it isn't a big deal if customers miss out on the cheap dinner if they pay for the expensive items.
Thanks for the guide. I beat the game with it. I was stuck at level 13 but with your guide i could beat all remaining levels.
I came across your hub and decided to check the game out. One of the better fun Ive come across online. Ive been playing the last few days, thanks :)
Thanks so much this really helped! Another trick is sometimes if you wait until the day is almost over and there are only a few costumers left the you add the bus stop and the bus comes infinite times in one day. It really helped me on some of the hardest levels but sometimes takes a long time to trigger.
MTF, I do exactly the same thing with the restaurant. :) I think this is what the Restaurant is meant for : slow down the customers to permitt to a higher number of them to enter the shops that sell expensive things. But I tried something lately, and it worked well : putting the Market very first. Because it's huge, a whole bunch of people can get in it. And, what is great about the Market is that its capacity doubles when you upgrade it, so you can make a lot more money quicker. After the market, put the restaurant ; it will slow down people and allow them to go to those big slow and expensive shops once the others have left. After the restaurant, the big slow expensive shops, and at the end, the Petshop and Boutique, because they're the cheapest.
Hope this will help you folks, good luck ! :) I still ain't finished yet, I'm at level 11, and I didn't miss any lever yet. :D But this is probably just luck... Anyway, thanx everyone for the advices !
Oops, sorry, *level, not lever, aww. xD
Shopping street guide for every lvl
day 0- build pet shop in 5th spot and add bench (4th spot) in front of pet store
day 2- build boutique on 6th spot (ASAP) and add two more benches one on right (5th spot) and left (3th spot) of first bench
day 4- upgrade boutique lvl 2
day 6- upgrade pet shop lvl 2
day 7- upgrade boutique lvl 3 (max)
day 8- upgrade pet shop lvl 3 (max)
day 9- Build bus stop (ASAP) and then add toy store on 7th spot
day 10- upgrade toy store lvl 2 and add newspaper stands on remaining stops (1st,2nd,6th and 7th)
day 11- build jewelry on 3rd spot
day 12- upgrade toy store lvl 3 (max)
day 13- Build electro store in 1st spot
day 15- Build market in 2nd spot
day 16- Build furniture in 4th spot (ASAP)
day 17- upgrade electro store lvl 2
day 20- upgrade market lvl 2
day 21- upgrade electro store lvl 3 (max)
day 23- upgrade market lvl 3 (max)
day 24- build restaurant in last spot (ASAP) and upgrade jewelry lvl 2
day 25- upgrade furniture lvl 2
day 26- upgrade furniture lvl 3 (Max)
day 27- upgrade jewelry lvl 3 (Max) and upgrade restaurant lvl 2
day 28- upgrade restaurant lvl 3 (Max)
I based this off of your guide basically the same it just explains what you should do each day
Cool, thanks Bob.
idiot level
all bad word idiot level
one time trying it will not win so it is called idiot of tera mo level
That one worked for levels 13-15:)
how do you complete level 5?
how do u beat lvl 4?? (yeah im really behind...)
I dont get why I scored higher than the picture above but my total was less, can anyone explain? see here [img]http://a.imageshack.us/img843/2638/shoppingstreet.[/img]
I put news papers in every spot because
1. they hold more people than benches (i think the advertisements too)
2. They give you $5 every time someone buys one.
i never used advertisement i thought it was stupid.
i usually get full newspapers by day 10 or 11.
I noticed that you can just set up the pet shop in the beginning alone and you will get exactly 2500 to buy boutique, so thats what i usually do.
i set up the pet shop on the 5th spot
none of you guys posted the ultimate build order, i found a build order that can get you 2 "bonus $1000" in 1 day ! and it's not a cheat or hack.
day 1: pet + newspaper at 5th spot
day 2: boutique + bench at 4th spot
day 3: don't build
day 4: upgrade boutique
day 5: upgrade pet
DAY 6: at the end where all the customers are leaving, you JUST have enough $5000 to build a bus stop, at that point you will get the "bonus $1000" first, and then the bus arrives and drops off more customers, when they finish, you get another "bonus $1000" again for all customer satisfaction. Extra $2000 at day 6 just made your game a whole lot easier.
nice idea
for my order i like to put all my shit worthless buildings at the end.
and leave the best ones at the beginning
so i put electro frist, than furniture, than market, jewlery, pet shop, boutique, toystore and resteraunt.
this is because when the market is at the highest level with electro and furniture also, the people spend all their money than leave. so really you just need the other ones for the beginning
how do i complete level 10
How do you complete level 9?
I need help on level 5 =(
someone help me to beat level 11
Okay, I finally made it past day 3, 3 times 1000$ bonus, here goes
Day 1
Pet shop stop 7 with bench
Get newspaper ready and start, let 10 shoppers go by and put newspaper at spot 5 on 11`th shopper
1000$ bonus
Day 2
I put the boutique on top of newspaper and thats it
1000$ bonus
Day 3
Now this was the hard one, still dont know how much wiggle room can be used but what must be done is this...
Every shopper must go in the boutique to get drained of their money when they go to the pet shop, if they dont, even if pet shop gets everybody, no bonus since they still have money
So I used spot 2 to put a bench after the 4th shopper, then music on spot 3 after another 4 shoppers, then a newspaper stand on spot 4 after another 4 shoppers, and bam, 1000$ bonus on day 3!!!!!
Day 4
On day 4 I gave up perfection and just bought a bus stop once all shoppers are gone.
Please give it a try and let me know if you guys can make it also and if you do figure something better out.
PS: did the how game now and restaurant is worthless any way you put it...
Upgrade as soon as possible or buy buildings, dont wait for another higher upgrade unless is withing reach or you will loose too many shoppers early on.
At about day 16 or so I always get my bonus and at that point the game is pretty much over, just upgrade and buy, no order seem to be better.
Confirmed, finished last level day 30 without restaurant.
I am so stuck on level nine. Any strategies?
Wes 2 years ago
Trying your strategy. Doesn't work for me. There's just no way in level 13 to follow it and have the Pet Store & Boutique maxed by Day 9, let alone add the Bus Station.