User blog comment:Sillyrachel1/Financial help/@comment-5220945-20120703084941

Hi and welcome :). I'm new here to, but have been playing for a few months now and have learned a lot from the folks on this site. Be on the lookout for a Tiki Hut/Canteen store clone. They first came out with the Tiki Hut, then a couple of months later introduced the Canteen stores, and they are pretty much the same store.  Chances are another one is coming.  Even if you just buy food from the market to feed your stores, you will get a good return.  Plus they're cheap to buy.

At your level, the Pterydactyl Trainer is the highest level "normal" store you can get. When I was there, I stopped even trying to supply woven fur resources with my own fur. You can subsidize with some fur makers, but I'd build as many of these stores and woven fur stores as can suit your recipe preference.

Personally, both the art store and the tuxedo store were useful only to put down if I had resource overflow. They are nice for xp, but cost a ton of resources that you can't buy to feed them without losing money.

I should warn you, as well, that my play-style was much different than the prevailing opinions you will read about here. Until recently, I only used stores and resource collectors to make money because I liked the bonus of a bunch of xp. Around your level, I was full of furniture stores, sculptor stores, and the terydactyl trainers, and as many secondary resource makers to support the number of stores I had. If you wish to balance with stores/ resources and decorations then lamps, fly traps, star flowers are all good as Paula mentioned, and much better on space.

Also, just my opinion, but be careful on the ROI thing. I mean you have to spend your coins on something...I've always thought of it as how many more coins can you generate tomorrow as opposed to today.