On the way home, Garfield, Jon and Odie stop by Gramps' supermarket to pick up some shopping supplies. When they enter, they find the place low on customers. Gramps tells them that the new Food Monster Supermarket is taking his customers. Mr. Baggett, the owner of the Food Monster, then arrives, hoping Gramps will sell his market in order to add more parking spaces. Noticing Jon, Baggett lures him into the Food Monster with promising deals, much to Gramps' dismay.
After entering the Food Monster, Jon shops while Garfield goes over his shopping list. While looking forward to driving Gramps out of business, Mr. Baggett makes sure that the store is set to force customers into making more expensive purchases and noting the benefit of misaligned shopping cart wheels (with small children able to put expensive food items into the cart, undetected by parents). While shopping, Jon sends Odie to fetch a pound of flour. Although Jon acknowledges the higher food prices, he is still satisfied with the multiple deals.
After Mr. Baggett makes a new special, one of his employees informs him about Odie in one of the aisles. Thinking he could cause trouble, Baggett goes to investigate. When he finds Odie, Baggett demands that he come down, which eventually leads to a chase. As Jon and Garfield continue to shop, they spot Odie being chased by Baggett. Garfield jumps into another cart to rescue Odie from Baggett. The three go through numerous aisles, leaving messes along the way. They eventually go through the fruit aisle, where Garfield and Odie eat bananas and throw the peels on the floor to trip Baggett. Trying to get out, Garfield uses the Express Lane to escape; Baggett manages to catch up and capture them.
When Jon arrives, Mr. Baggett demands that he pay for the damages caused by his pets. Jon tells him about his high prices, to which Baggett notes that his customers are gullible enough to pay for them, giving him an advantage over Gramps. As Baggett talks about putting Gramps out of business, Garfield holds up a microphone to his mouth, allowing other customers to overhear his scheme. When they hear how the food at Gramps' is cheaper and superior, the customers leave the Food Monster, much to Baggett's shock.
Meanwhile, Gramps prepares to shut down his store, when he sees a long line of customers ready to enter his store. Garfield, Jon and Odie arrive as well, with Jon declaring that Garfield is primarily responsible for saving Gramps' store. Mr. Baggett tries in vain to get the customers back by offering more deals. Gramps rewards Garfield by letting him have anything at his store for free. Garfield proceeds to fill up a cart with much of the store's contents, compelling Gramps to reconsider his decision that it would be cheaper to retires.
There's plenty of games available on DSiWare which are nothing more than glorified Flash games, which you could find playable for free online if you searched for just a few minutes. At first, we suspected that Supermarket Mania would join their ranks, but thankfully it offers a little bit more.
As a single player-only experience, Supermarket Mania offers two modes of play. Like most games, the Endless mode is just a high-score affair where you try to last as long as possible and get as many points as you can, but Story mode is where the bread and butter is at.
As Nikki, a new employee at a large supermarket chain, your job is to run around the supermarket and restock all the empty shelves, so that the customers can get what they need and subsequently make their way to the register to reward you for your hard work.
Of course, you can't carry an endless supply of foodstuffs on you, so after every five refills,Nikki will have to run to the storeroom in the back and refill her shopping cart. If you still have some food left, this process is faster, so it can sometimes be strategic to run to the back before you're even out of items. After only a handful of levels, Nikki finds out that the supermarket chain is run by a stereotypically evil guy with a moustache hellbent on wiping out all competitors, so she instead seeks work at smaller, honest stores run by kind old men and the like.
From that point on many more game features open up to you. After each level, you will be able to purchase store upgrades: a coffee machine you can use every few seconds to get a speed boost, or a gumball machine next to the register which into which every customer will be forced to plug some coins.
As you go through the stores, you'll also get more and different types of customers. Each has a particular type of food or drink they tend to purchase, so you may want to memorise what everybody likes, and of course you may not even need a particular type of consumable if there's nobody who likes it. Eventually you'll also come across people who may cause a ruckus, for which you'll need to alert the store guard.
The Story mode has 50 stages so is quite lengthy and will take you a good two or three hours to finish. As new things are constantly introduced (or you can introduce them yourself by upgrading the store) things stay fresh and don't really get boring, so it's a fun ride throughout. Every now and then you'll also get a comic-book style sequence furthering the story, and although it's a bit corny it does add some extra flair.
In the graphics and music department the game doesn't really shine, but it's really not too bad. The graphics indeed practically resemble a Flash game, and there's some upbeat, moderately catchy tunes that play while the stores are open, with a different song for each one.
Supermarket Mania seems like something you'd be likely to find in a free Flash game, but it adds plenty of stuff to warrant its 500 Point price tag. If you're looking for a simple, fun game, then you might be at the right address here.
sf>I bought this a number of months ago as a PSP Mini (I play it fairly frequently.). I'm glad to see that the Nintendo crowd will be able to enjoy it as well. The company has released a number of quality games as PSP Minis, including two Mahjong titles and a fast food title, so this might not be their last transplant onto DSiWare.
Hmm. Nice review. The official review made me think, "Huh. That's boring. I'm not getting that..." but this review makes it sound like a pretty nice game. Hmm.... I may get it. So, you can't connect to WFC on this? I guess I like these kinds of games, I will say I liked Diner Dash. I can't help but think if I did a little bit of internet surfing, I could find a flash game of this (or similiar to it). I'd probably get it if it was 200 points. 500 seems a little bit too much for me.
Anyway, Wendy and Nikki find an old man who wants nothing more than to start his own grocery store that is full of love and wholesomely bland foods. They do so. This somehow puts the Evil supermarket out of business. White people cheer all around. (There are no people of color in this game.)
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For whatever reason, there are a few solid free apps available on the App Store today. First up, Spirits, the excellent and artsy Lemmings-style platformer, is free for download on both the iPhone and the iPad. Supermarket Mania 2, the supermarket-based time management game, is also free for a limited time. Rat on a Skateboard has gone completely free after a recent update, and stick figure tower defense app Tesla Wars has also decided go for the low, low price of zero dollars (while adding some in-app purchases). All excellent apps -- pick them up for free if you haven't yet.
Elsewhere on the store, there are a few big releases that are not free. Backflip Studios has released its long-awaited Evil Dead game: Army of Darkness Defense uses clips and characters from the great Bruce Campbell movie in a sort of reverse tower defense game, and it's only a buck for a limited time. And Sega has released Golden Axe 3 on the App Store for $2.99 -- not only is the fantasy hack-and-slash sequel finally available, but this also means Sega has run out of old-school Golden Axe sequels to release on iOS. Maybe this means we can get an original Golden Axe game for the platform?
Welcome to Supermarket Mania: Kids Go Shopping! Do you like spending your time in supermarkets shopping for groceries and other nice new items? This supermarket is unlike others! You can find lots of different new products in here! In this entertaining game, you can shop for groceries, clothes, toys, and more! Clean up after clumsy customers, collect foods, slice fruits and even bake cakes! Grab a trolley, check your shopping list, and get ready to visit the aisles!
Retail bosses across Europe and North America are locked in talks with their advisers this weekend over how best to take part in the long-awaited shake-up of Europe's biggest High Street names to form the global retail super league of the 21st Century.
Analysts believe that US stores giant Wal-Mart will make its move on a UK supermarket, thought to be Safeway, as early as this week. This could spark a bidding war with French supermarket group Carrefour for control of Britain's fourth-largest food retailer.
The plans have been put into high gear following the Kingfisher-Asda deal, which will create Britain's largest and Europe's second-largest retail group with brands such as Comet, B&Q, Superdrug and Woolworths sharing the same owner as Asda and George clothing.
The deal was brought forward by the fear that Wal-Mart was poised to use its immense market muscle to buy its way into the British High Street. As the world's biggest retailer it could slash prices and drive competitors out of business.
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