Shop Timing
The Supplies Shop is strongest when it upgrades the next rooms before they go bad. If you only visit after the route has already collapsed, the shop stop is late cleanup instead of real stabilization.
Think of the shop as support timing, not shopping time. The right visit usually happens one step earlier than players expect.
Quick Answer
Best Shop Window
One item or upgrade would clearly make the next treatment or rescue sequence safer.
A clear reject, a close CCTV check, or a live patient emergency is still cheaper to solve first.
The buy only happens after Medical Rooms, Coffee, or rescue beds are already falling behind.
Open this if you want the room itself first and the route decision second.
Use this when the timing is clear and the real question is which purchase actually deserves the coins.
Open this when your buys feel fine but the route between shelves, beds, and patients is still too loose.
Use this if your shop timing question actually starts one room earlier, right after intake.
Best next page if your shop timing is fine and the real question is the first purchase itself.
Open this when the hard part is deciding whether the current patient or the next shop stop should win.
Use this if you want the room-side explanation of what the shop stop does inside the map loop.