10 Items or Less - Episode Guide

10 ITEMS OR LESS opens with Leslie Pool returning to his native Ohio to run the Greens & Grains grocery store he has just inherited from his father. He arrives to find a rather dysfunctional staff that includes Carl, the sweet, doofus stockboy who has fathered a baby with Yolanda, the straight-talking dominant force in the produce department; Ingrid, the quirky, soft-spoken customer service representative who has a thing for Todd, the sexy butcher who hopes to one day to be a stock car driver; and the check-out team of Buck, the bagger who is looking towards the future by attending night school, and Richard, the dignified cashier who dreams of becoming a professional ice dancer. Leslie also faces off against his arch nemesis, Amy, who manages the SuperValueMart down the street. Amy is determined to bring the Greens & Grains to its knees so that Value Mart can buy the property and turn it into a parking lot.

Greens & Grains's sales are down, and manager Leslie Pool needs to find a way to attract new customers. When a water stain on the wall near the entrance to the store appears to be the likeness of Jesus, Leslie sees nothing but dollar signs. But his overeager marketing tactics attract the ire of rival store manager Amy, while Ingrid goes a little too far with her own promotional idea. Carl makes overtures to be a proper father to his son with Yolanda. And the meat freezer is on the fritz, threatening the stores entire meat supply.

The Greens & Grains can no longer afford to cover health insurance for its employees, which means Todd will have to be let go in order to free up additional funds. So Leslie takes Todd over to the SuperValueMart and convinces Amy to hire him for her own meat department. But Amy has plans to turn him into the hottest butcher in town, as well as her own personal stud muffin.

Leslie is desperate to join the Bisons, a local social fraternity, but he won't be let in if he doesn't bring a date to a Bisons dinner. After a disastrous attempt to ask one of his customers to attend the function with him, Leslie convinces Ingrid to be his date, setting up an evening that's going to be full of surprises.

Buck and Richard say they are the best bagger/cashier team, but Super Value Mart claims to have the best team. They decide to have a competition but Buck doesn't want to compete.

Leslie finds 5,000 silver dollars in his fathe's office safe and decides to create a giveaway in which customers get to stand in a large glass box grabbing at dollar bills being blown around by a fan. The scheme, however, attracts the attention of a pair of robbers who take the entire Greens & Grains crew hostage. Heroics, betrayals, surprising revelations and a bullet in the derriere soon follow.

After Buck comes in late after a night out on the town, Leslie becomes convinced Buck has a drinking problem and recruits the rest of the staff for an intervention. But while Buck did have a few drinks the night before, his real problem isn't alcohol. It's the person with whom he was drinking and the importance of keeping that person's identity from Leslie. When the secret finally comes out, Leslie reacts by suddenly considering himself too old and alone. And it's up to Buck to mend the wounds to raise the boss' spirits with a night on the town and a very surprising encounter.

After honoring his late father in a short memorial service appropriately held in the Greens & Grains bread aisle where the former owner passed away Leslie realizes that he has nobody to whom to pass on the legacy of the store should something happen to him. So he chooses Carl to be his heir apparent. But the situation quickly devolves as Leslie becomes far too involved in Carl's life, setting up a disastrous turn of events that involves the entire Greens & Grains crew.

Ingrid feels her biological clock ticking away and decides the time has come to lose her virginity. But choosing the right man from her coworkers at the store proves challenging. When she finally picks one, their awkward and unfulfilling night makes Ingrid fear she may have turned her de-flowerer gay. And he agrees.

Todd wins some cows in a poker game and pitches Leslie the idea that they could use the cows to sell the freshest meat in town. Leslie loves the idea, and takes it a step further by suggesting the customers could choose the cow they want to have butchered, just like a seafood restaurant customer would choose a live lobster to be cooked. Embarking on their business venture, Leslie feels a special bond with Todd, whom he now considers his bro. But getting FDA approval to slaughter cows in the Greens & Grains is going to take some real moxy. Meanwhile, another bromance brews with Buck, who is trapped taking Richard to an ice-skating audition for Lord of the Rings on Ice and uses the opportunity to make Richard a little more manly.

When Amy loses her job at the SuperValueMart, Leslie decides to hire her as Greens & Grains' new assistant manager, to the horror of the rest of the staff. Amy's influence is immediately felt as she forces Leslie to be stricter in his managerial style and tries to transform the Greens & Grains into an impersonal box store. It will take a maximum effort by the crew to snap Leslie out of Amy's spell and rescue him from the dark side.

Leslie decides to put together a promotional calendar featuring the staff dressed as heroes of American history, with Ingrid on the cover as Betsy Ross. But Ingrid's display of ignorance about her character leads to the shocking revelation that she is actually an illegal alien from Poland. Jealous that Ingrid was chosen for the calendar cover instead of her, Amy decides to do something about the Greens & Grains' undocumented-worker problem. But Ingrid is not about to go silently, and the rest of the staff is not about to let Amy get the upper hand.

The Greens & Grains grocery store is celebrating Renaissance Days, wherein the staff dresses in 15th century garb. And the week will end with the annual employee picnic to be held in the Greens & Grains itself. Things begin to go sideways when he challenges Charles Kliphouse, the new manager of SuperValueMart, to a joust. But Leslie still has a few tricks up his sleeve.

Leslie, Todd and Carl create a new grocery store bowling game using frozen turkeys. The new SuperValue Mart store manager, Mercy P. Jones, bets Leslie he can't throw 3,000 frames without leaving a single pin standing and gambling fever takes over the store.

Leslie decides to open a Lasik business inside Greens & Grains, while Yolanda wants to start a tube top shop at www.yolandastubetopshop.com. Unfortunately, Yolanda's tube top ends up blinding Leslie. Feeling guilty for causing Leslie to be temporarily blinded, Yolanda invites him to stay with her while he recuperates.

Leslie's holds a Star Trok convention when Jolene Blalock of "Star Trek: Enterprise" shows up for a celebrity appearance. During the event an exploding refrigerator compressor leaves her trapped in close quarters with Leslie and Ingrid.

Richard's mother has a drinking problem and Leslie is determined to help her. Leslie is also determined to help Richard find a date.

After being humiliated by SuperValueMart in competing car washes for charity, Leslie decides to put his whistling talent to good use.

When Leslie fires the milkman for delivering expired products, Todd informs him of the curse and to be careful of the wrath of the Dairy Consortium.

Leslie discovers his great, great, great grandfather was a Native American and decides to make contact with the local Shawnee Indian tribe in an attempt to connect with his heritage. Of course, Leslie acts like his usual self and goes a little overboard.

Greens & Grains is holding a big promotion to celebrate its 150 year anniversary, but everything imaginable winds up going terribly wrong, from the 150% off sale to the assault of the quilters.