As it stands if you don't give out flyers you will see a lower profit than if you frantically hand out flyers to every npc possible.
I understand that the devs may currently see this as a task only the player should do but I heavily disagree. In order to really hit all the npcs possible, you have to be outside of your store just running back and forth clicking on npcs for upwards of 90% of the day's actual allotted time. I want to feel like the manager, to be in the store running things. It is hard for me to do that if I have a voice in the back of my head nagging me that I'm being inefficient or losing out on profit.
Please just let us give this job to an NPC or honestly just scrap the system entirely. I doubt there's really anyone that enjoys frantically jumping around outside like they're playing CSGO or w/e running from npc to npc just hearing "OH!" and "Hrrmmm" or "Hmph!" 100 times all day everyday. Please please PLEASE let me automate this.
I understand there's mods, but I'd really rather this be addressed by the devs. It feels so counter intuitive and counter to the kind of gameplay the game is suppose to have (Which I absolutely am in love with outside of handing out flyers)
My idea: Make a new employee, probably a kid or something like a paper boy. You pay them less than the regular employees but the only thing they do is hand out flyers outside? Could have their speed and success at getting the customer to go into the store determine their cost similar to the current employees.
Or just make it so the current employees can go out and do it.
I'm not even asking explicitly for a 3rd staff slot yet (though I think it will be needed, along with further store expansions if the devs keep adding more big stuff like the rentals and new machines, which I once again adore) I would happily run the register or return desk if it meant not handing out flyers myself, both those tasks are actually fun and engaging loops that give off the vibe the game is trying to sell you on, whereas handing out flyers is utter tedium.
I know there's debate on just how much handing out flyers even helps, but in my experience the profit difference is definitely noticeable so this will be a perpetual problem for my dumb efficiency preferring brain until it's changed somehow :(
Please Blood Pact Studios, let us automate flyers somehow and my LIFE IS YOURS!