The comic misadventures of staff members working in the ladies lingerie and gentlemen's ready-to-wear sections of a small department store.

A love note from Mr Lucas to Miss Brahms goes astray and causes a lot of chaos, misunderstandings and screaming.

Mr Rumbold's training session for the staff conflicts with everyone's personal plans, which leads to dissent in the ranks.

When a transportation strike prevents the staffers from going home, they are allowed to stay overnight at the store.

When a glamorous representative of a his-and-hers perfume range sets up shop in the store, Mrs Slocombe and Mr Grainger wage war on their new fast-talking adversary.

When a wealthy customer loses a diamond in the store, the greedy staff scramble to be the first to find it.