As per the title, there seems to be a bug when creating a Jewelry and Watch store in Capitalism II.
When I first create such a store all goes well. However, after a while if I save, exit to windows and reload i can't seem to control the store. To be more exact, I have limited control over the store. I can add and remove tiles in the layout and I can change products and prices, BUT:
a) when in the city screen if i hover the mouse over the store there is only a generic 'Jewelry and Watch store' info displayed. No picture of me, no logo of my company, no profit and revenue graphs as with the rest of the firms.
b) when i enter the store, my company logo and my picture are displayed, but still no profit and revenue graphs and in addition there is no training bar
c) some times tiles are added automatically to the store, prices and advertising adjusted, or supply linkage re-established (if i had previously stopped it)
All and all, it looks like someone else is running the store and I 'm only able to make minor changes. I have NOT hired any Chief Operating Officer (nor such info is displayed when I click on my picture in the upper left corner).
Has anyone had this happened? Any ideas on solving it?
I 'm guessing that the game is not properly storing in the save data file the owner of the jewelry and watch stores. So any info on the structure of the save game data file could also be useful, so that I could try adding it manually.
Phew, that was quite a post. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks...

First GOG-user from India? Too bad he's just a spammer. Also, people who buy diamonds for their pets should be kicked off the planet.

I too suffer from this bug. I'm not sure if it's just because it's from GOG or in the code as I can't remember having this issue in the CD version.

If you ever manage to find a fix, do let me know :)

UPDATE: I have reported this problem to the Capitalism II and Capitalism Lab forums located here: http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1251

Hope this helped.

i have the same problem, in all kind of stores. it kills the game.

for example in my recent game it keeps adding advertising units to my jewelry stores and assigns advertising expenses.
in other games it automatically restarted purchases after i had stopped them in a factory.

Have you hired a CEO/COO whatever they are? They will control stores/farms/factories if you assign them to one.

Also, a patch was released a while ago that solves the bug mentioned in the thread title with the jewellery store, I just never got around to posting it.

i have v1.07, i think that's the latest one. no i did not have a COO (CEO is myself, isn't it?)

i noticed the automatic restarting of purchases is a button within each building. turning it off helped.

Patch just got released. Looks like it should fix the jewelry store issue.

I am having the same problem among other things. I have been playing Cap 2 since the early 2000's and never had this problem before, I don't know why it is happening now. I am running Cap2 version 1.08C, which I think is the latest.

My first issue:
When I setup a retail shop (Jewelry) I setup Purchase->Inventory->Sales down the left side, selling gold rings and leave the remaining layout blank for future expansion into silver necklaces. When I leave the retail screen for whatever purpose (stock market, factory or mining, etc.) I go back to my retail shop and the blank spaces are now filled with other purchasing, sales and even advertising. The purchasing and sales are blank and not linked but now I have a fully funded and linked advertising campaign. I find this all very strange because I do not have a corporate headquarters and no COO or other executives, so there should be no AI making decisions on my shops. Never had this problem before until recently.

My second issue:
Related to the above issue but different. When I setup a retail shop (Jewelry) and I am selling gold rings I find that my prices are auto adjusting, and raising to the point where the price is so high that my supply is exceeding my demand and my overall profits drop to the point of losing money. I can adjust them back to a balanced supply and demand but after a month of game play the prices start gradually increasing again. No external factors are changing such as factory pricing, technology or mining costs. Again I do not have a corporate headquarters and no COO or other executives, so there should be no AI making decisions on my shops.

I have tried disabling auto-link but that doesn't change anything, is this a bug that others are experiencing? Suggestions on how to fix?

Hello.

It is October 2015 and this jewelry store bug persists. This game is BROKEN.

I have tried using the current installer for the game (2.4.0.10), attempted to install the latest patch from Enlight Software, v1.08c from [links forbidden for my user], and have started new games from scratch, all with the bug returning on each reload: Jewelry stores work fine when you build them, but bug out again once you reload the saved game. It's as if it was an AI store. Prices auto-adjust, advertising re-links, new products get sold, etc.

I repeat: You are selling a broken game. Please fix and report to us ASAP!
I love this game and am extremely frustrated with it not working properly!

Specs:
Win 7 SP1 64 bits
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0 GHz
8 GB DDR3 Ram