How to Complete Clean the Supermarket

From the locked door to a clean store

1. 1

   Start here: you are locked in until the store is clean

   Clean the Supermarket opens with a chained exit — ESCAPE LOCKED, finish all shelves to exit. A manager NPC opens the shift, and the mess covering the floor is your full to-do list: every scattered item has a correct shelf. You start able to hold only four items, so early trips are short — that is normal.

   

2. 2

   Learn the placement loop on the first shelf

   Follow the arrow to shelf 1D/1C and the tutorial walks you through the core loop: pick up an item, stand at a shelf, place it. A mismatched slot flashes red WRONG SHELF, and a green CORRECT SHELF message confirms a good placement. The meat rolls go on the canned-meat shelf — the first of 199.

   

3. 3

   Spend your points on the Price Scanner first

   Every correct placement pays points, and the UPGRADES panel [U] is where they go. The Price Scanner is the backbone of a full clear: level 3 of 4 costs 304 points in this run, and the panel says it highlights every matching item identical to the one you're looking at. That phrasing matters — it scans what you look at, not what you hold. A common rhythm: raise every ability to level 1, then push the Price Scanner again.

   

4. 4

   Clear the store section by section, big items first

   Numbered signs split the store into 8 BAKERY, 9 MEAT, 10 SEAFOOD, 11 DAIRY, 12 BEVERAGES and more, with a wall directory listing what each aisle stocks. In this run the bakery, produce and meat sections were all finished inside the first hour. Big loaves and crates fill a shelf in fewer trips, so theme your cart around one section instead of mixing random finds.

   

5. 5

   Work the scanner list to sweep every copy at once

   Press 1 for the Price Scanner and it lists every matching copy nearby — Baking Soda appears eight times in this shot. Walk the list, grab the duplicates and place them in one pass; each placement pops +1 Item Placed and a green CORRECT SHELF confirm. Sweeping one product type at a time beats hunting items one by one.

   

6. 6

   Track the bottom-left counters and mid-run badges

   The HUD counts both progress axes: shelves stocked out of 199 and items placed out of 1,603. This run stood at 67 of 199 shelves with 323 items placed at the one-hour mark, and 115 of 199 when the badge toast appeared. The game officially awards 25% Complete!, 50% Complete! and 75% Complete! badges as you pass each milestone, which keeps a long clear measurable.

   

7. 7

   Unlock the Auto-Stocker at 350 items placed

   The fourth ability stays locked until you have placed 350 items in total. The Auto-Stocker instantly shelves the matching items you are holding: load your cart from one aisle, press 4, and the whole armload goes onto shelves. It runs on a cooldown of roughly 50 seconds — the panel shows 55s dropping to 50s as you level it — so trigger it once per full cart rather than one item at a time.

   

8. 8

   Expect the endgame to slow down

   Past 75% the store looks almost clean, but the last hundreds of items are the hardest: small beverage bottles and lookalike flavours spread thin across the floor. This run read 171 of 199 shelves and 1,372 of 1,603 items at around the two-and-a-half-hour mark. Keep scanning, keep themed carts, and clear one shelf face at a time.

   

9. 9

   Finish the last shelf and read 199/199

   The final shelf in this run was the very first one — the canned meat near spawn, whose last loaves had been collected in a corner earlier. Placing them flipped the counters to 199/199 shelves and 1,603/1,603 items under a completion banner. The creator finished in about 2 hours 45 minutes and earned Clock Chaser, whose official description is a full clean in 3 hours or less.

   

10. 10

    After the win: the lobby leaderboards

    Completing the store returns you to the Grocery Mart lobby, where MOST WINS, MOST PLAYTIME and FASTEST CLEANS boards rank the server. This run's clean landed around 2 hours 45 minutes, while the FASTEST CLEANS board tops out at 7:42 — a natural next target once you chase Quick Stepper (under 2 hours) or Speed Runner (under 1 hour).

    

Keep planning your clear

• How to Play — controls, HUD and your first shelves →
• Upgrade Order — what to buy, in what order →
• Completion Planner — track all 1,603 items →
• Badge Tracker — every badge with live rarity →
• Speed Runner Badge — the sub-hour clear →
• Store Map — every aisle and section →
• Clean the Supermarket Multiplayer Guide →
• How Long to Beat Clean the Supermarket? →

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