Description of App
Run a little neighborhood market. Order stock, fill the shelves, set your prices, ring up customers at the register, and grow your shop from a corner store into a premium market with a second branch.
Corner Grocer is a market management game built to be played with VoiceOver from the very first day. Sighted players and VoiceOver players play the same game with the same rules.
A DAY AT THE MARKET
• Morning: check deliveries, prices and today's event, then place your orders in the office.
• Open: customers come in, ask for help and queue up. Scan their items, take cash or card, and count out the change.
• Stock: open crates in the stockroom, put goods on the right shelves and watch the dates. Goods go off, and a wrong shelf sells less.
• Evening: read the report, get one clear tip for tomorrow and decide what to invest in.
GROW
• Start with an empty corner shop and a basket of bread. Earn, then invest: shelves, fridges, freezers, produce stands, bakery cases and deli counters in build mode.
• Move up through four store sizes: corner shop, mini market, big market and premium market.
• License new product lines. There are 48 products, from bread and milk to hummus, pet food and olive oil.
• Open extra registers and hire cashiers. Your own register is always yours.
• Much later, open a second branch run by a manager you choose, and read its result in the evening report.
• Invest in upgrades, supplier contracts and campaigns. Contracts and campaigns can renew themselves.
• In the office, one button fills your order from the suggestions. In the stockroom, one button places every crate that has room.
• Daily goals, 22 achievements, and events such as heat waves, rain, power cuts, rival sales and supplier delays.
• There is no final day. Play as long as you like.
BUILT FOR VOICEOVER
• Every station has labelled controls in a fixed order, plus actions for the rotor. Anything you can drag also has a way to do without dragging.
• Three speech levels: Full, Balanced and Sounds First.
• Magic Tap pauses and resumes the day.
• Sound carries information: door chimes, scanner beeps, queue alerts, shelf warnings. The Listening Room in Settings plays every sound and tells you what it means.
• Easy, Normal and Custom modes, with assists for patience, day length, customer flow, wrong-shelf protection, undo and clearing spoiled goods each morning. Assists are for everyone and always free.
• Short optional small jobs fill the quiet moments at the register.
• Customer voices are generated with AI. You can turn them down or off in Settings.
MAKE IT YOURS
Decorate your shop in the Shop Studio: floors, walls, counters, signs, lights, decor and outfits, plus atmospheres, music albums and end-of-day tunes. Name your shop and let the game describe it to you.
FREE TO PLAY, WITH OPTIONAL ADS AND PURCHASES
The game is free to download. Cash from the shop pays for stock, shelves and upgrades. Coins are only for sound and looks, and never make the game easier or harder. You can earn Coins by playing and by watching optional ads, or buy Coin packs. Coin packs and support packs are optional in-app purchases. Accessibility features and Easy mode are always free.
ADS
Ads come from Google AdMob. Optional ads in the evening report and the Shop Studio give 10 Coins each, up to 3 a day. Without VoiceOver, a short full-screen ad can also play between days from day 5. Players using VoiceOver never get forced ads. Any support pack (Starter, Supporter or Founder) removes ads. Ads are personalised only if you allow tracking when the game asks.
Play in 11 languages: English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Chinese (Simplified). Customers speak all 11 languages. English and Turkish voices come with the app; the others download once while you are online. Questions or feedback: [email protected]
Comments
New Game <3
Hi everyone!
First of all, a huge thank you to Joseph for taking the time to create this entry and share his experience with Corner Grocer! ❤️
Joseph has been testing the game since its very early builds, and his feedback has helped me fix bugs and improve the VoiceOver experience along the way. Seeing him describe the game as addictive and hard to put down really made my day!
I'm Gökhan, the developer of Corner Grocer and Restaurant Rush.
Corner Grocer is still a very young game, and I have plenty of ideas for its future. Accessibility has been a priority from the very beginning, and I want to keep improving the experience with your help.
If you encounter any accessibility issues, confusing controls, or anything that could work better, please don't hesitate to let me know. I read your feedback personally, and I genuinely appreciate it, whether it's positive or critical.
Thank you to Joseph and the entire AppleVis community for giving independent developers like me a place to learn, improve, and share our work.
I hope you enjoy running your little markets!
Gökhan
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slightly confused
this is great, as i would expect!
however, i am just slightly confused, so sorry.
All my bread (day 1 guide on with this first time) ran out, about half-way through the day, but i thought "quick setup" would provide enough bread? it's not 70 customers i'm serving, around 10 to 20?
i have ordered in this case, bread for tomorrow, i found it odd though that no bread was left yet 1 loaf was available for my last customer of the line before closing?
Great game though.
Re: slightly confused
Subject: Re: Slightly confused
Thank you, and I’m glad you’re enjoying the game! 😊
You understood the ordering system correctly: stock ordered from the office is delivered the following morning, so planning a day ahead is part of managing the store. The Day 1 “Quick Setup” provides only a small starting supply to introduce the system, but your feedback is fair—it may not provide enough bread for the first day’s demand, and we can make that clearer or adjust the starting quantity.
The final customer was still able to buy one loaf because customers take products from the shelf before joining the checkout line. That loaf had already been placed in the customer’s basket, so the shelf showed zero even though the item was still waiting to be scanned at the register.
Thanks for pointing this out. It helps us see which parts of the first-day tutorial need clearer explanations!
more comments
interestingly when i to day 2 and beyond it states drinks etc. and snacks will sell quickly today, for example, but i don't think you can make enough cash to get those at this time? so i just use the basic supplies, for now. also, footsteps sound like someone knocking on a door? very strange? also maybe have a different bell sound for when someone leaves, vs when they come in?
just a thought?
Re: more comments
Thank you so much for playing Corner Grocer and for such clear feedback. It really helps.
You’re right about the morning news. On a day like the big match, the game says snacks and drinks will sell well even if you don’t sell them yet, and sticking to your basic products early on is exactly the right call. In the next update (1.0.3), the morning news will also say when those products aren’t in your shop yet, for example: “You don’t sell snacks or drinks yet, so this doesn’t change your day.”
Door sounds: there is already a separate sound for a customer leaving happy, but in the default Real sound set both are recorded shop bells, so they sound close. If you’d like them clearly different now, go to Settings, Sound, Sound picker, and choose Classic for Door chime: coming in is two rising notes, leaving is one low note and a click. We’ll also work on making the leaving bell in the Real set easier to tell apart.
Footsteps: thanks for pointing that out, we’ll listen to the default footsteps again. Meanwhile you can turn them down or off in Settings, Sound, Customer footsteps, or pick a different footstep style in the Shop Studio.
Also coming in 1.0.3: a Write to us screen in the main menu, so you can send ideas and bug reports and read our replies right in the game.
Thanks again, and happy shopkeeping!
Appeared glitch in growth tab
Hey y’all,
I appear to have a glitch with the Office/growth tab. When I go into purchase my license for the chips and water for $5, it tells me that that button is dimmed. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
Re: Appeared glitch in growth tab
Hi Lucretia, thank you for reporting this, and you’re not doing anything wrong: it’s a bug in how the button explains itself.
The Water and chips line needs somewhere to put its products before you can license it. Your bread basket only holds bread, so you first need a Basket (or a Snack shelf) in the Snacks section. Until then the license button stays dimmed. The game was supposed to tell you why, but the reason came out empty (“Needs first”) and the button itself only said dimmed.
How to get past it now:
In the store, double-tap Build mode.
Double-tap Next free slot, choose Basket and buy it for $6.
Go back to the Office, Growth tab: Buy the Water and chips license now works for $5.
The morning panel’s Growth opportunity card (“Try something new: Water and chips, $11 in total”) has an Open build mode button that takes you straight to step 1.
I’ve already fixed it for an upcoming update: the row and the button will both say “Needs a shelf unit in Snacks first: add one in Build mode”. Thanks again; reports like this are exactly how we find these.