Grocery is a rabbit hole in The Sims 3 where Sims can visit to go shopping for ingredients. The grocery offers a selection of items for cooking ingredients, fish, edible produce, herbs[TS3:UL], and kelp[TS3:IP]. Additionally, Sims can also buy items like birthday cake, wedding cake[TS3:G], firework bundles[TS3:S], and lotto tickets[TS3:ITF] from the grocery.
Sims can get a part-time job in the grocery as a Grocery Store Clerk. Sims can also attend Fishing class for §400, and sell fish or fruits and vegetables in the inventory to the grocery. Sims who have enough money can invest their money to become a partner or buy out the property to earn more money. The cost of partnership is §7,000, while the cost of ownership is §20,000. Sims can collect money from the grocery for §1,000 (partnered) or §2,000 (owner) every week.
Additionally, Sims who are at the top of the Professional Sports career can do advertising deals at the grocery, which will reward them with money. Sims can also hold autograph sessions at the grocery. Vampires can raid the grocery for plasma fruit.
Groceries generate the following red map tag in-game:
All harvestable produce bought from the grocery has a nice quality, while fish has normal quality. Sims can buy individual items or ingredients by recipe. Sims can also save the shopping list for later use, but only one shopping list can be saved. Saving another shopping list will override the previous list.
The price of harvested produce from the grocery is 150% higher than their base values. Selling fish and harvested produce to the grocery has 10% higher value than selling them directly in the inventory. Selling them to the consignment store is more beneficial, however.
Every day, there's a 5% chance the grocery store will have a sale, ranging from a 35% to 50% discount. Sales can last for one or two days. Additionally, Sims who work at the store will have a 10% discount off any items they purchase.
Frugal Sims may also collect coupons. However there is no guarantee that the coupon collected will be for the grocery store.
If Seasons is installed, players will be notified at the start of every summer that firework bundles are on sale, even if they aren't[confirmation needed].
Snobs are more likely to visit the rabbit hole. Sims will not bring toddlers to lots containing a grocery store.
One of the benefits of buying ingredients from grocery is that the ingredients from the grocery are of Nice quality, while they're only of Normal quality if bought directly from the fridge.
The music that plays inside the grocery store is the hotel theme from MySims.
The Market Basket in Starlight Shores shares the same name as a chain of grocery stores in the New England area of the United States.
Darris Teeter Grocery is a reference to Harris Teeter, a supermarket chain that operates in the Southeastern United States.
Other languages[]
Language
Object name
Translated etymology
English
Grocery
Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
European Portuguese
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
(No consistent names in the Sims 3 era; closest is Hjørnebutikk)
Corner store
Polish
Supermarket
Russian
Продуктовый магазин
Products magazine ("Magazine" as in an old term for department stores)
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Notes[]
↑If eaten raw, the Sim will get a 15% boost when training on certain sports-related hidden skills. Will also give the Coffee Breath moodlet.
↑If eaten raw in Sims University, the study score gets a 10% gain bonus for 7 hours.
↑If eaten raw, the Hunger motive decay slows down by 30% for 7 hours.
↑If eaten raw, the Sim won't faint from empty Energy motives for 7 hours.
↑Gives the Garlic Breath moodlet, as would be expected when a Sim eats an entire raw garlic. Gives partial immunity to vampire interactions. Can be fixed early by brushing teeth.
↑If eaten raw in a regular world relatively soon before going to work, they will get a slight boost in career performance, promotion bonus payments, and opportunity rewards.
↑If eaten raw, the Sim will feel more romantic to some extent for 7 hours.
↑If eaten raw, the Sim will get a marginal 10% boost in Energy gain for 7 hours if they go to sleep during that time.
↑If eaten raw, the Sim will get a 15% boost when training on the Athletic skill for 7 hours.
↑If eaten raw, attempts by the Sim to lose weight will gain a 20% boost for 7 hours.
↑Other species can eat it more or less normally if they have the Simmunitylifetime reward.[TS3:S] If they don't have Simmunity, they have a 100% chance to become nauseous.
↑If eaten raw, the Bladder motive decay will slow down by 50% for 3 hours. Will also give the Coffee Breath moodlet.
↑If eaten raw, the Sim becomes immune to being arrested for graffiti, and to being caught cheating in class at Sims University, for 7 hours. Should the Sim catch fire, they will get 4 hours to put their fire out instead of 1.
↑If eaten raw, the Sim will get a 15% boost when trying to increase social group ranks for 7 hours.
