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Selling Honey at Farmers Markets, Shops and Country Shows: Sales-Channel Economics (2D)

2D sales-channel economics lab: the same greedy jar-allocation model as the 3D original, read as an allocation bar chart, a profit bar chart and a capacity-amortized effective-margin curve that shows exactly where raising commission or stall fees flips which channel wins.

Economics & Social Systems2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion runs the identical greedy sales-channel allocation as the 3D market-square scene — the same price, supply, stall-fee, commission and show-frequency inputs feeding the same per-channel capacity and fixed-cost rules — but reads it as three linked charts instead of an orbitable scene: a capacity bar for each channel showing exactly how many jars land there this month, a profit bar chart that turns red the moment a channel's fixed cost outweighs its sales, and an effective-margin-vs-commission curve, unique to this view, that amortizes each channel's flat fee across its own full capacity so you can see precisely how far commission or stall fees have to rise before a channel that wins on paper actually stops paying for itself.

⚙ Under the hood

Greedy channel-allocation model: four channels (farmers market, farm shop, specialist retailer, country shows) are ranked by raw price-per-jar, then filled in order up to each one's realistic capacity until supply runs out. A separate capacity-amortized effective-margin metric (flat fee ÷ full capacity, subtracted from price) is charted against commission to show where a channel's real earning power diverges from its raw allocation priority.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install