» Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:44 am You should be able to help expand your family's store. You'd accomplish this by donating a limited number of items per period of time (To keep the spamming cheap items to a minimum). Let's say one a day. So once per day you can give your spouse an item for the store. The value of these items goes towards one of several options. Expanding the types of items offered, the number of items offered, the quality of items offered, or the amount of gold on hand.
To start off your spouse's store would sell only food, low end clothing, and the miscellaneous crap (lookin at you, tankard). You donate a few items to the store, and let's say you choose to increase the base number of crappy items offered. To start off your spouse will carry an inventory of 20 items. When you purchase this upgrade they then carry 25 items (then 30, 35, etc).
Or you could choose to open up a new selection of items from different catagories. They would be something like one handed weapons, two handed weapons, archery supplies, shields, light armor, heavy armor, jewelry (gems and accessories), smithing materials, soul gems, alchemy supplies, books, spell tomes, mage robes, and so on. Certain selections would have a second tier that, once opened, allows the sale of enchanted versions of those items.
Updrading the quality of the stock increases the spawn rate of high end merchandise (within in your spouse's store), and lessens the spawn rate of low end merchandise, for all unlocked selections.
And of course increase gold on hand should be self explanatory.
