Updated October 29, 2026: Rewritten for 2026. This guide now covers the best things to sell (with buy and sell prices), store layout, stocking amounts, money trees, how to get more customers, loans and co-op, plus every recent update. Game data was checked against the Retail Tycoon 2 Roblox page and Secondhand Studios’ official changelog at 06:00 UTC.
To make money fast in Retail Tycoon 2, sell a few high-margin categories (toys, furniture, game tables), keep the store small with short customer paths, and spend early cash on parking spots and a bigger store sign, since those set how many customers arrive. Then hire a manager and restockers so the shop keeps selling while you are away, and earn money trees for a permanent profit boost.
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Retail Tycoon 2 quick answer (October 2026)
- Best things to sell early: toys ($20 buy, $45 sell, 125% margin), small furniture ($180 / $400) and large furniture ($450 / $1,000), both about 122%, per the community wiki’s price table.
- Best layout: a compact store, similar items grouped together, wide open aisles, registers near the exit and storage next to the loading dock.
- More customers: the official changelog says customer spawn rate rises with your store ratings, your number of parking spots and the signage value of your largest sign.
- Stocking amounts: managers can target 50% to 200% stock. Wiki editors suggest 125-135% with instant delivery and 185-200% with delivery drivers.
- Money trees: earned by selling a set number of one item (see Settings, Stats). Each placed tree adds 2% to your profit.
- Codes: Retail Tycoon 2 has no redeem codes and no code box. Ignore sites that list them.
- Last update: version 1.8.2.8 on April 8, 2026 (a wall-saving fix). No new content update or 2026 Halloween event has been posted.
Build mode on a second floor: electronics display tables cost $500 each here, and customers crowd the open aisles. Image: Secondhand Studios (Retail Tycoon 2 on Roblox)
Retail Tycoon 2 at a glance (checked October 29, 2026)
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Secondhand Studios (verified Roblox group; changelog posted by developer Haggie125) |
| Released | Beta November 6, 2020; free to play since version 1.0 on July 16, 2021 |
| Current version | 1.8.2.8 (April 8, 2026) |
| Visits / favorites | 340.2 million visits, 1.41 million favorites |
| Players online | About 670 at 06:00 UTC on October 29 |
| Server size | 6 players |
| Platforms | PC, mobile (since April 2021) and Xbox (since August 2021) |
| Official channels | changelog on the Roblox DevForum, the RT2 Trello board (last active March 2022) and the Secondhand Studios Discord, all linked by the developer |
Best things to sell in Retail Tycoon 2
Every item in the game sells for more than it costs, so nothing loses money on its own. What matters is margin, how much a customer buys at once, and how much shelf space the item takes. These buy and sell prices come from the community-run Retail Tycoon 2 Wiki profit table (last edited March 2026). Margin is profit divided by buy price.
| Item | Buy | Sell | Profit per unit | Margin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game tables | $155 | $350 | $195 | 126% | Air hockey, pool, ping pong, foosball |
| Toys | $20 | $45 | $25 | 125% | Cheap to start; customers can buy up to 12 |
| Beverages (soda) | $8 | $18 | $10 | 125% | Also stocks drink vending machines |
| Small furniture | $180 | $400 | $220 | 122% | Needs a lot of storage space |
| Large furniture | $450 | $1,000 | $550 | 122% | Customers often need a loan |
| Paint supplies | $18 | $40 | $22 | 122% | Spray paint packs densely on shelves |
| Fruit and vegetables | $10 | $22 | $12 | 120% | Needs produce bins |
| Large power tools | $115 | $250 | $135 | 117% | Good mid-game add |
| Exercise equipment | $560 | $1,200 | $640 | 114% | Highest profit per unit outside cars and military items |
| Clothing | $30 | $55 | $25 | 83% | Lower margin, but bought in bulk |
| Small electronics | $400 | $700 | $300 | 75% | High profit per shelf slot |
| Jewelry | $850 | $1,200 | $350 | 41% | The wiki’s best profit per shelf slot |
| Economy cars | $13,000 | $15,000 | $2,000 | 15% | Big profit per sale, but hard to finance |
Which item is “best” depends on what is limiting you:
- Short on cash (early game): pick high margins on cheap stock. Toys, soda and paint supplies refill shelves fastest for the money.
- Short on shelf space (mid game): pick profit per shelf slot. The wiki’s top five are jewelry, small electronics, PC electronics, personal transport and large electronics, because small, expensive items pack tightly.
- Plenty of cash and customers: add furniture, exercise equipment and game tables, then finance reps so customers can afford them.
Don’t sell everything at once. The official 0.4 update notes explain that customers arrive with shopping lists for item types you sell, and sometimes want similar items. A store that sells only expensive items attracts more customers who just browse. The wiki’s tips page agrees: the more item types you add, the less you sell of your best earners, so a few related, high-margin categories usually beat a general store. Military goods (guns, ammo, tanks) need the Military Clearance game pass.
How to make money fast in Retail Tycoon 2
- Start with one or two high-margin categories from the table above and a few shelves of each. Buy stock, collect it at the loading dock in your vehicle, unload it at your store’s unloading dock, and stock the shelves yourself.
- Build cheap first. Basic floors and walls are fine at the start. The wiki’s ratings page notes that a dirt ceiling and edge pieces still count as shelter at a fraction of the cost, so save money for shelves and parking.
- Add parking spots and upgrade your sign as soon as cash allows. These raise customer flow (see the next section).
- Hire workers in this order: a cashier, restockers, then a manager at a desk so stock gets bought automatically. Add delivery drivers once you own a second truck.
- Keep customers moving. A small, tidy store with short paths gets more shoppers through per minute than a big maze.
- Work toward money trees on the items you sell most (see below).
- Grow in steps. Expand land and shelves only when you have cash left over for stock. Managers will keep buying stock as long as you have more than $0, according to the wiki.
Two official details help here. You can trash or recycle unwanted goods for half their cost (since 1.0.2), and you can sell old trucks for half price (since 1.0.1). You can also pause a worker: workers on break get half pay and keep their experience (1.0.2).
How to get more customers in Retail Tycoon 2
Retail Tycoon 2’s own patch notes describe how customer flow works. Since update 0.4, customer spawn rate is based on how much cash shoppers carry into your store per minute. It goes up with high store ratings and more parking spots. Since 0.4.2, it also goes up with the signage value of the largest sign on your plot.
| Store sign | Signage | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden Sign (default) | +20 | $100 |
| Folding Sign | +30 | $750 |
| Stone Sign | +55 | $5,000 |
| Brick Sign | +70 | $10,000 |
| Modern Sign / Medium Sign | +80 | $20,000 |
| LED Sign (smaller) | +90 | $35,000 |
| Billboard / LED Sign / Big Roof Sign | +100 | $50,000 |
Sign values and prices from the community wiki’s Signs page. Only your single largest store sign counts toward traffic. Hanging signs add decoration, not customers.
- Parking spots: each one costs $1,000 more than the last (the in-game description says this is “due to permits”). Wiki editors say you rarely need more than about 40, because they almost never all fill up after that, even with a $50,000 sign.
- EV parking spot: added in 1.7.3 (December 2022). The patch notes say EV customers bring in a bit more money on average. The wiki lists a limit of 10 EV spots, each costing more than a regular spot.
- Bus stops and trams: bus stops (1.5.8) are a cheaper version of trams. Underground tram stations (1.5.7) are an expensive end-game option that saves space taken by parking lots.
- Ratings: low ratings make customers leave sooner. See the store rating checklist below.
Best store layout in Retail Tycoon 2
There’s no single best layout, but the same rules show up in the official patch notes and the Retail Tycoon Wiki’s tips page:
- Keep it compact. The longer a customer walks, the fewer customers you serve per minute.
- Group items by type. Customers tend to buy items from the same category, so put each category’s variants together (all toys in one block, all furniture in another).
- Use open floor, not long corridors. One-tile-wide aisles get crowded and hurt your crowdedness rating.
- Use stairs, not escalators, on a second floor. The wiki says escalators are slower and cost more.
- Control the path. Railings set where checkout queues go (1.6.2), and one-way gates (1.8.2) only affect customers, so you can send shoppers past your best shelves and out through the registers.
- Put storage shelves beside your unloading dock, with restockers on a short route to the sales floor.
- Check the overlays. In build or camera mode, the decoration, crowdedness, trash-can coverage and pathing views show weak spots before customers complain.
The Electric Semi (a 299 Robux game pass) at the loading dock, where bought stock waits to be collected. Image: Secondhand Studios (Retail Tycoon 2 on Roblox)
Which checkout should you use?
| Checkout | Cost | Scan time | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checkout Counter | Cheapest | 1.2 s per item | Small early stores; needs a cashier |
| Checkout Register | $2,000 | 1.0 s per item | Busy stores; needs a cashier, can hold candy or snacks for impulse buys |
| Self Checkout | $2,500 | 1.8 s per item | Quiet stores; no wages, but about half of customers won’t use it |
Costs and timings from the Retail Tycoon Wiki tips page. Cashiers scan faster as they level up.
Retail Tycoon 2 store ratings checklist
The game rates your store in six areas, shown in Store Options. Each was added in an official update:
| Rating | Added | How to raise it |
|---|---|---|
| Decoration | 0.2 (Dec 2020) | Plants, fountains, decorative floors and money trees (+15 each). Security cameras and gates lower it |
| Crowdedness | 0.2 (Dec 2020) | Wider aisles and spread-out shelves |
| Shelter | 0.4.6 (Mar 2021) | Full walls and a ceiling over the sales floor |
| Cleanliness | 1.6 (May 2022) | Trash cans, janitors and a dumpster for them to empty into |
| Queue sizes | 1.6.2 (Jun 2022) | More registers, faster registers, higher-level cashiers |
| Walkability | 1.8 (Dec 2024) | Direct paths from the entrance to shelves to checkout |
Robbers are part of the game too (since 1.4). You can arrest them yourself or hire guards. Since 1.8, robbers freeze when security equipment detects them and try to flee after 30 seconds.
Retail Tycoon 2 stocking amounts and managers
Managers sit at a desk and buy stock for you automatically. Their “Amount to Stock” setting is a percentage of what your shelves can hold. Since 1.3.3 it can go up to 200%. Anything above 100% waits in storage so restockers can keep shelves full.
| Setup | Suggested stock amount | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Manager with instant delivery | 125-135% | Goods arrive at once, so a small buffer is enough. Instant delivery costs extra (the wiki says 25% more) |
| Manager with delivery drivers | 185-200% | Goods pile up at the loading dock until a driver brings them, so keep a bigger buffer |
| Saving up or cashing out | Lower than usual | Less cash tied up in stock |
Suggested ranges from the Retail Tycoon Wiki’s Managers page; the 50-200% limits and instant-delivery option are from the official changelog.
Instant delivery is off by default (since 1.2). Without it, purchases pile up at the loading dock and you or a delivery driver have to collect them. Each driver needs their own truck and an unloading dock at your store with room to park it. To move stock from your truck into storage, park at your store’s unloading dock and unload it there. Overloaded trucks drive much slower (0.6.6). Managers can also overspend: the wiki warns they can push a low-profit store toward bankruptcy, and their spending limit grows as they level up. Watch your cash for the first few minutes after hiring one.
Retail Tycoon 2 money tree: how to get one
Money trees are the game’s end-game boost. Here is how they work, from the official changelog (1.2.3 and 1.3) and the wiki’s Money Tree pages:
- How to earn one: hit a sales milestone for a single item. Open Settings (the gear icon), then the Stats tab: each item shows sold / needed. The milestone varies by item. The wiki’s examples are 10,000 turkeys but only 600 laptops.
- What it does: each placed tree adds 2% to your profit on every sale. Since 1.3 it boosts profit rather than revenue, so cheap low-margin items aren’t overpowered. Trees left in your inventory do nothing.
- Next tree: each new milestone for the same item needs 2.5 times the previous one (wiki). After the second or third tree for one item, it’s faster to start on a different item.
- Cost and size: free to place, 2×2 tiles and +15 decoration. They work anywhere on your plot.
Retail Tycoon 2 loans and finance reps
Loans in Retail Tycoon 2 are for your customers, not for you. Finance reps (added in 1.3, November 2021) work at a desk and lend money to shoppers who can’t afford what they want, so furniture, appliances and cars actually sell. The official notes say bigger loans are less likely to be approved, and update 1.7 raised the approval chance a bit. Finance reps also have a minimum loan amount setting (1.3.3), for example so they focus on car loans. Leave it on “Any” if you want every customer to get a chance.
The loan money doesn’t come out of your cash, so if you sell expensive goods, hiring a finance rep is almost always worth it. In one wiki editor’s test, 87 of 100 loan requests were approved. Car loans are much harder because most customers carry far less than a car’s $15,000 price.
What’s new in Retail Tycoon 2 (2024-2026 updates)
Secondhand Studios posts every patch on the official Retail Tycoon 2 changelog, and the bigger ones also appear as event listings on the Roblox game page.
| Date | Version | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2026 | 1.8.2.8 | Fixed walls sometimes not saving |
| Apr 3, 2026 | 1.8.2.7 | Fixes |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 1.8.2.6 | Data-saving changes; rollbacks to older save versions are no longer available |
| Nov 9, 2025 | 1.8.2.5 | Touch-screen PCs no longer default to mobile controls |
| Sep 4-7, 2025 | 300M Visits Sale | 50% off all cash purchases and game passes (event listing) |
| Apr 9, 2025 | 1.8.2.1 | Image IDs now work alongside decal IDs for store images and custom floors |
| Feb 13, 2025 | 1.8.2 | One-way gates, balloons, wooden fence, paper goods (tissues, paper towels, toilet paper), better vehicle performance |
| Jan 24, 2025 | 1.8.1 | Option to respawn stuck workers, guards stay near crowds, NPC fixes |
| Dec 18, 2024 | 1.8 Holiday Update | Pets and pet food, walkability rating, custom store icons, security rework, click-and-drag shelf stocking (not on mobile) |
There has been no content update since April 2026, and no 2026 Halloween event has been posted on the changelog or the game page as of October 29. Earlier Halloween events (2021 and 2022) asked players to smash 50 pumpkins around the map for themed decorations, and winter events asked for 50 presents. If a 2026 event appears, it will be posted in the same places.
Art from the official 300M Visits Sale listing (September 2025), when every cash purchase and game pass was 50% off. Image: Secondhand Studios (Retail Tycoon 2 on Roblox)
Retail Tycoon 2 game passes and prices
| Game pass | Price | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| More Land | 399 Robux | Extra land for a bigger store |
| Military Clearance | 499 Robux | Sell guns, ammo, military vehicles and armored vehicles; drivable tank and military truck |
| Electric Semi | 299 Robux | Electric semi truck for hauling stock |
| Custom Color Palettes | 299 Robux | Create your own color palettes |
| Custom Floors | 149 Robux | Use any decal or image ID as a floor texture |
| Custom Radio | 149 Robux | Custom store playlists and song IDs |
Prices from Roblox’s game pass listing for Retail Tycoon 2, checked October 29, 2026. Two more passes (Sandbox Mode and 4th Floor) exist but are not for sale. None of them are needed to make good money.
How to play Retail Tycoon 2 with friends (co-op)
Co-op arrived in update 1.5 (February 2022). Invite friends to your store, then manage access in the permissions tab of Store Options. Whitelisted players can do everything the owner can, while game pass and badge access stays tied to the store owner. You can also blacklist players to keep them out of your store. Servers hold up to 6 players.
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FAQ
Are there any Retail Tycoon 2 codes?
No. Retail Tycoon 2 has no code redemption box, and the official changelog has never announced a code. Lists of “working codes” on other sites are not real. Sales such as the 300M Visits Sale and updates are announced on the game page, the changelog and the Secondhand Studios Discord instead.
What is the best thing to sell in Retail Tycoon 2?
For new stores, toys: $20 to buy, $45 to sell, a 125% margin. Game tables and furniture have similar margins and much bigger profit per sale once you can afford them. If shelf space is your limit, jewelry and small electronics earn the most per shelf slot.
How do you get money fast in Retail Tycoon 2?
Sell two or three high-margin categories, build cheap, buy parking spots and a bigger sign early, and keep the store small so customers get in and out quickly. Then hire a manager and restockers so the store runs while you are away.
How many parking spots do you need in Retail Tycoon 2?
Add them steadily while you can afford them. Each spot costs $1,000 more than the last, and wiki editors find that more than about 40 rarely fill up, even with the biggest sign.
How is net worth calculated in Retail Tycoon 2?
Net worth counts more than your cash. The changelog says it includes the value of your owned vehicles (since 1.0.3) and the stock sitting at your loading dock and in your trucks (since 1.2.0.1).
Is Retail Tycoon 2 still being updated?
Yes, but slowly. The latest patch, 1.8.2.8, came on April 8, 2026, and the last content update (1.8.2, with paper goods and one-way gates) was in February 2025.
Sources: Retail Tycoon 2 on Roblox (game page, event listings, game passes), official Retail Tycoon 2 changelog (Haggie125, Secondhand Studios), Retail Tycoon 2 Wiki (prices, money trees, signs, parking; community-run) and Retail Tycoon Wiki (tips, ratings, managers, finance reps; community-run). Prices and numbers can change with updates.
