@AlexVonHumbug: It seems that this is just another bug. I had the same problem three days ago. A few dozen guests were at 0% happiness because they walked in circles form one shop to another and complained: "Oh no, I'm going to die of starvation / dehydration, cause I'm too stupid to buy anything in any store, cause I don't have enough money 
." I checked their "Group Finance" tab and these guests still had $ 200, $ 300, $ 400, up to $ 600 in their pockets - and free ATMs all over the place. I thought, okay, maybe I increased the store prices too much (+ $ 1), so I set the prices of all items in all stores to $ 0 - they still complained. Well, you have two options: eject them with your security guards one by one, or close the entire zoo so all the guests are kicked out. It has never happened to me since then.
Laggy Franchise Animal Market - It can be nerve-racking to click on every button on the animal market menu at least 10 times before it finally reacts. This tip still keeps me from going nuts: just click on each button(*) once! In case the menu doesn't respond quickly, hit the ENTER key and it will react immediately - pure magic.
*= It's working with any button: Adopt, Compare Mates, Release to Wild, Next / Previous Page, or setting up filters, deleting filters, etc.
." I checked their "Group Finance" tab and these guests still had $ 200, $ 300, $ 400, up to $ 600 in their pockets - and free ATMs all over the place. I thought, okay, maybe I increased the store prices too much (+ $ 1), so I set the prices of all items in all stores to $ 0 - they still complained. Well, you have two options: eject them with your security guards one by one, or close the entire zoo so all the guests are kicked out. It has never happened to me since then.Laggy Franchise Animal Market - It can be nerve-racking to click on every button on the animal market menu at least 10 times before it finally reacts. This tip still keeps me from going nuts: just click on each button(*) once! In case the menu doesn't respond quickly, hit the ENTER key and it will react immediately - pure magic.
*= It's working with any button: Adopt, Compare Mates, Release to Wild, Next / Previous Page, or setting up filters, deleting filters, etc.