RETAIL is a workplace comedy of life in a big-box store in Hollywood, Florida. A former filmmaker moves back home and takes a job at Murray's retail, only to work under a middle manager he had publicly called a nobody, one now sabotaging the store's corporate review to claim the top job.

SYNOPSIS:

DREW COLLINS, 29, is a former filmmaker who has returned to his hometown of Hollywood, Florida with nothing to show for eight years in Los Angeles. He lands a job at Murray's, a sprawling big-box store, under ERIC, the checked-out store manager who makes clear that ambition is neither required nor welcome. Drew is assigned to Electronics, where he falls into an unlikely orbit with GRIFFIN, a high-strung photo technician who treats the department like his kingdom, ANGELA, a brilliantly lazy schemer who has carved out a private world in the department's blind spots, and ISABELLE, a sharp-eyed art school expatriate from Paris who is impossible not to like. Drew quickly absorbs the store's unspoken architecture: BRYAN, the controlling Grocery manager, has been systematically stripping Electronics and General Merchandise of inventory and personnel to ensure they fail an upcoming corporate audit. In the parking lot, a cart-turf war between GM leader KAITLYN and Grocery utility leader NATHAN masks a broken relationship, while WAYNE and RUBY conduct a secret romance across enemy lines. Drew protects his coworkers at every turn, absorbing points on the disciplinary scale for a printer fire he did not start and a fire door he opened to save Wayne and Ruby from exposure.

As the corporate audit approaches, Drew pieces together that Bryan is not the sole architect of the store's decline. KYLE, the quietly vengeful third-shift supervisor, has been running a parallel and colder operation: because Kyle controls utility policy, he is the one who imposed the cart separation rules that divided Kaitlyn and Nathan's teams and ignited the parking lot war. He then directed his associate YEN to hide the missing GM carts, deepening the conflict. He also tampered with the Electronics printers to undermine Griffin, and has been steadily reducing incoming merchandise across GM and Electronics. Every piece of chaos Drew has been navigating traces back to Kyle, who has been positioning both Eric and Bryan to take the fall when the auditor arrives. Bryan, meanwhile, has been targeting Drew specifically since a humiliating customer interaction two years earlier, when Drew dismissed him as nobody during a brief flush of filmmaker confidence. That revelation reframes Bryan's cruelty as something almost human. STEFAN, the quietly spectacular new hire in Receiving, surfaces periodic intel on the merchandise irregularities before vanishing on his days off at exactly the wrong moments.

On the night before the audit, the parking lot erupts into full chaos. Kyle reveals his full hand to Drew, walking him through the sabotage with strange pride, certain that morning will bring the store's collapse and his vindication. Drew survives a confrontation with Yen, saved by Ruby, and then pivots to rally the entire staff in the fifty-six minutes before the auditor arrives. He brokers a reconciliation between Nathan and Kaitlyn, exposes the missing carts as Kyle's doing, and coordinates a store-wide cleanup that includes associates clocking out and posing as customers. The auditor passes the store on the thinnest of margins. When Kyle returns with donuts and a collapsing narrative, Drew plays the office surveillance footage that proves Kyle's scheme and clears Bryan. Kyle is fired. Eric, revealing he had always intended Bryan for his position upon retirement, departs without drama. Bryan, facing a Drew he can no longer dismiss, wordlessly returns the favor by showing Eric the footage that clears Drew's disciplinary record. Drew clocks out after twenty-four consecutive hours, makes plans with Isabelle for Thursday, and steps into the Florida sun.