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Now that he has inherited Greens & Grains, the family grocery store, Leslie Pool has returned to Ohio to take over the business. He is soon approached by old classmate, Amy Anderson, with a business proposition. Now a manager for the supermarket giant Super Value Mart, Amy presents Leslie with a contract to sell Greens & Grains that was negotiated just before his dad died. But Leslie has chosen not to sell and vows to make the business a success.The staff soon learn that their jobs could be in jeopardy. Even though Leslie tries to rally his troops with his "Lessons for Success" to fight off Super Value Mart's takeover, everyone is at each others' throats. Through it all, Leslie won't be persuaded to sell to Amy, even when she returns with a much better offer. So, she claims that Leslie's father said he would run the store into the ground, and, when the demoralised Leslie looks ready to sell after all, his employees devise a ruse aimed at boosting his confidence.

With business down at Greens & Grains, Leslie sends Richard to move the Girl Scouts whose table he blames for siphoning off customers. One of the scouts points to a stain on the wall of the store that looks just like Jesus Christ. Seizing upon it as an opportunity to attract some business, Leslie proclaims the stain a miracle and, ignoring Ingrid's warning that it may appear tacky, sends Richard and Buck next door to let Super Value Mart's customers know all about it. Amy catches Richard and Buck secretly distributing flyers in her store's car park, so heads to Greens & Grains to insist that Leslie not only cease distributing the flyers, but that he stop exploiting Jesus for commercial gain. When a "News on the Move" crew arrives to cover the story, Leslie claims that the stain is God’s way of saying that he has always supported the little guy. However, the whole Jesus charade falls apart when it turns out that the stain is a leak caused by Carl's inept freezer repairs.

Leslie gets some bad news about the store's health insurance. Telling everyone that an increase in the premium has put their insurance in jeopardy, he announces that he will host a reality show whose loser will be fired in order to save enough money to pay the bill. When Todd loses, Leslie tries to ease the blow by getting him a job at Super Value Mart.Amy makes Todd Super Value Mart's new butcher and the target of her amorous advances. Back at Greens & Grains, Leslie's efforts to teach his remaining employees to fill in for the butcher end in disaster. Trying to get him back, Todd tells Leslie that his contract prevents him from returning. Unwilling to be deterred, Leslie kidnaps Todd from the Super Value Mart butcher counter and takes him back to his store next door. Finally, when Leslie gets Todd to use his sex appeal to draw female customers, the increase in business saves the store’s health insurance plan.

Leslie wants to join the prestigious Protective and Benevolent Order of the Bisons. Carl points out, however, that attending a Bison dinner will mean his having to find a date. When Leslie's search sends him to see Yolanda, he gets a hard lesson about what it is that she finds unattractive about him. When a role playing exercise with Richard leads to a painful misunderstanding, Leslie sinks to offering Ingrid a bribe if she will go with him. At the Bisons' dinner, Leslie's efforts to ingratiate himself to its leader, Mr. Sutherland, suffer a setback when it becomes clear that the car he ordered to be towed away earlier belongs to none other than Sutherland's wife. Leslie is then thrown out of the dinner. Finally, Ingrid decides not to pursue the feelings that she has for the boss, and Leslie announces that he has decided to start his own club – the Caribous – that everyone at Greens & Grains has to join.

When Leslie runs an ad touting Richard and Buck as the fastest grocery bagging team in Ohio, Amy begs to differ. Leslie challenges her to a contest, with the winning store getting $5,000. But Leslie and his Greens & Grains crew suffer a setback when Buck announces that he doesn’t want to compete, leaving Richard without a partner. Leslie holds a locker inspection to determine who will be Richard’s new teammate. After quickly eliminating Yolanda, Todd, and Carl, Leslie decides that Ingrid's neat and tidy locker makes her the perfect candidate. When Amy and her Super Value Mart crew arrive, they are even more confident they will win. Realising that he is the store's only hope, Buck hurries to rejoin Richard for the competition, but when he comes up just one item short in the speed bagging contest, Amy's team are declared the winners. But, when Leslie discovers that their work fell short of the standard required, the judge reverses his decision and declares Greens & Grains the winners.

"The discovery of $5,000 in a hidden safe has inspired Leslie to put on a big promotion at the store. To lure new customers, he sets up a “Money Cube,” a glass booth filled with cash that is blown around by a powerful fan while the lucky person inside tries to grab what they can. Carl is upset to learn that Yolanda is seeing a checker at the Super Value Mart, and as they argue, a pair of masked gunman burst into G&G.Leslie gets the gunmen to release the customers they are holding hostage. However, when one of the men gets into the Money Cube where his mask is torn off by the fan, he’s revealed to be none other than Yolanda’s boyfriend, Jim. Leslie offers Jim and his sidekick the 5,000 silver dollars and when Jim admits to hatching the crime to raise money for his mother’s heart transplant, Leslie disarms him, ties him up and then escapes. Leslie returns to stop Jim’s partner Zack shooting Amy, and the bullet ends up in his backside after ricocheting around the store."