Just an idea I had while playing New Leaf. I was thinking, maybe, on rare-ish occasions (like once or twice a week, on random days), a villager could work at the Nookling store part-time. I got this idea when thinking about how villagers take up the role as workers in Happy Home Paradise, I thought it would be interesting if it could happen on your town/island too.
Depending on their personality of course their dialog could change. For instance, jock, lazy, peppy, and sisterly act unprofessional (idea from reading Harmony's dialog in Splatoon 3 at her store.), normal and cranky acts the most professional, snooty acts professional for the most part, and smug is relatively unprofessional but not to the extent of the other unprofessional ones (mainly just "cool" or "flashy" way of talking to their customer). I was thinking stuff like, jocks would talk in a very casual tone, sisterlys could just act very bored and clumsy working at a store, normals would have dialog similar to how the nooklings talk (pretty professional and inoffensive), and snooty could act professional for the most part but say things like "my you have exquisite taste" or something along those lines.
Maybe they could change depending on your friendship, with some personalities impacted by friendship more than others. Normals will try to treat you like any ordinary customer regardless of friendship, snooty and cranky will only say stuff like "oh hi, i didn't expect to see you here!" when your friendship is high enough, and jock, sisterly, lazy, smug, and peppy will immediately recognize you regardless of friendship, maybe they could act more and more excited depending on their friendship with you though.
The main thing, though, is that I was thinking depending on friendship and personality, maybe your villagers could even give you slight discounts on items. I was thinking the unprofessional ones like jock, lazy, peppy, sisterly, and smug can have a chance to give you a discount on items, whereas normal, cranky, and snooty wouldn't at a fear of being fired.
Depending on their personality of course their dialog could change. For instance, jock, lazy, peppy, and sisterly act unprofessional (idea from reading Harmony's dialog in Splatoon 3 at her store.), normal and cranky acts the most professional, snooty acts professional for the most part, and smug is relatively unprofessional but not to the extent of the other unprofessional ones (mainly just "cool" or "flashy" way of talking to their customer). I was thinking stuff like, jocks would talk in a very casual tone, sisterlys could just act very bored and clumsy working at a store, normals would have dialog similar to how the nooklings talk (pretty professional and inoffensive), and snooty could act professional for the most part but say things like "my you have exquisite taste" or something along those lines.
Maybe they could change depending on your friendship, with some personalities impacted by friendship more than others. Normals will try to treat you like any ordinary customer regardless of friendship, snooty and cranky will only say stuff like "oh hi, i didn't expect to see you here!" when your friendship is high enough, and jock, sisterly, lazy, smug, and peppy will immediately recognize you regardless of friendship, maybe they could act more and more excited depending on their friendship with you though.
The main thing, though, is that I was thinking depending on friendship and personality, maybe your villagers could even give you slight discounts on items. I was thinking the unprofessional ones like jock, lazy, peppy, sisterly, and smug can have a chance to give you a discount on items, whereas normal, cranky, and snooty wouldn't at a fear of being fired.