48 Fun Facts About Superstore

What colour are the vests worn by Cloud 9 floor staff?

Blue vests over the staff's own clothes are Cloud 9's uniform, a look close enough to real big-box chains that the store is routinely likened to Walmart.

In which US city is the Cloud 9 store located?

St. Louis is home to Store 1217, the Ozark Highlands branch; when closures loom in the final season, its staff stage a 'perfect' day to outshine a rival store in Quincy, Illinois.

Who created Superstore?

Justin Spitzer created Superstore after years writing for The Office; he quit as showrunner in April 2019, handing the job to Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green.

Which network aired Superstore for its six seasons?

NBC previewed the first episodes after The Voice in November 2015, kept the show for six seasons, then announced in December 2020 that the sixth would be its last.

Who plays floor supervisor Amy?

America Ferrera, also an executive producer, played Amy Sosa until early in season six, when Amy leaves for a corporate job; Ferrera returned for the series finale.

Ben Feldman plays which Superstore character?

Jonah Simms is the business-school dropout Feldman plays; he hides his Cloud 9 job from his well-off parents, who go on telling people their son is in medical school.

Why does Amy wear a different tag in nearly every episode?

She dislikes strangers using her real name 'like we're buddies', as she tells a new hire in the pilot, though by closing time that day she has told him what it is.

What name is on Amy's name tag in the Superstore pilot?

Ramona is what a new hire calls her when he tries to start over, only to be told it is not her name; Diana, Beatrice and Sheila follow in the next three episodes.

Which Superstore character is the store's sarcastic in-store announcer?

Garrett's dry voice over the PA bookends the show: he narrates the opening of the pilot, and his farewell announcement closes the finale.

What does Dina keep as pets, calling them her 'babies'?

Birds: when Dina brings her flock to work one Valentine's Day, Garrett accidentally lets them out of their cage; when she finds out, she sets fire to his sneaker collection.

Which Superstore character discovers that his green card is fake and that he is undocumented?

Mateo keeps the secret for years, until ICE agents arrest him in the store in the season four finale; he returns in season five as the manager's assistant.

Mateo was romantically involved with which Cloud 9 figure?

District manager Jeff becomes Mateo's boyfriend in season two; much later Mateo falls for Amy's brother Eric, and the finale's flash-forward shows the pair with wedding rings.

In Superstore's first-season finale, what does Cheyenne name the daughter she gives birth to in the store?

Harmonica nearly had other parents: earlier in the season Cheyenne considers adoption, and two of her managers argue over which of them should get the baby.

On Superstore, what is the full first name of Cheyenne's husband Bo?

Bilbo 'Bo' Derek Thompson proposes to Cheyenne in the pilot by faking an armed robbery that turns into a flash-mob dance, and ends the night in police custody.

On Superstore, store manager Glenn is a devout Christian and which of these?

A foster father to many children, Glenn has raised at least eleven with his wife Jerusha; when they want a baby of their own she cannot carry one, so a colleague acts as surrogate.

On Superstore, who acts as surrogate for Glenn and Jerusha's baby?

Dina steps in after Cheyenne volunteers by accident and backs out; she and Amy then go into labour on the same day, Dina in a smart hospital and Amy in a cut-price clinic.

On Superstore, whom does Sandra marry in season five?

Jerry marries Sandra with the store's security-minded assistant manager as maid of honour, on full alert because Carol, his ex-girlfriend, is plotting to wreck the ceremony.

Which Superstore actress was promoted from a recurring role to series regular for season five?

Kaliko Kauahi had played the meek Sandra since the first season; her promotion came just as the character moved centre stage, with season five building to Sandra's wedding.

The Superstore actress who plays Cheyenne was credited under which stage name for most of the run?

Nichole Bloom was the stage name of Nichole Sakura, who joined the show under it in 2015 and went back to her birth name for the final season.

What destroys the Cloud 9 store at the end of season two?

A tornado tears the roof off moments after Glenn names the six staff being laid off; trapped together as it hits, Amy and a co-worker share a kiss.

What was Cloud 9's store-brand line called before its rebrand to Super Cloud?

Halo goods are slashed by 80 per cent to clear the shelves for the new brand, so Cheyenne spends her shift stockpiling the marked-down baby products.

In Superstore's season three Halloween episode, whose corpse is found inside a store wall?

Sal, the store's creepiest employee, had been missing for a year: he trapped his foot behind the drywall while drilling a hole beside the women's bathroom, and starved there.

Where was the Superstore pilot filmed?

A redressed Kmart in Burbank stood in for Cloud 9, and it stayed open during the shoot, so real shoppers kept asking the cast to help them find things.

Which tech company buys Cloud 9 in Superstore's fifth season?

Zephra arrives with gimmicks such as a staff cereal bar and an app that tracks employees around the store, then moves to close most of the chain in the final season.

In Superstore's first-season finale, 'Labor', why do the employees walk out?

Glenn is fired after he 'suspends' Cheyenne with pay as a workaround for the lack of paid maternity leave; the staff walk out in protest, ending the first season on the strike.

Which real sporting event got a special Superstore episode in 2016?

The Rio Summer Olympics special aired during the Games, a month before season two proper, yet its story steps back into the middle of season one; real medallists Tara Lipinski and Apolo Ohno pop up in cameos.

Where does Cloud 9's corporate headquarters sit?

Chicago hosts the managers' conference that two floor workers crash on Glenn's tickets, hoping for a free night out, only to learn how little the bosses there think of store staff.

Which rival retailer does Jeff claim he is leaving Cloud 9 to manage in season three?

Target is only a cover story: Jeff later admits to Mateo that he is unemployed and was too ashamed to tell his old Cloud 9 crew.

On Superstore, what does Amy name the son she has in season four?

Parker is the name her colleagues spend an episode begging her to change; the second son she is shown with in the finale's flash-forward is called Carter.

On Superstore, what is Marcus trying to sell at Local Vendors Day?

Breast-milk cheese is a scheme Marcus seizes on after a nurse-in protest at the store; at an earlier pitch his colleagues spat out the samples before learning they were only string cheese.

On Superstore, which hotly awaited video game's release day fills Cloud 9 with gamers?

Barbarian's Gate 3 puts the staff on trampling watch, and one starstruck employee embarrasses himself in front of the voice actor who narrates it, played by Phil LaMarr.

Which comedian guest-stars as a rival charity rep in Superstore's season five episode 'Toy Drive'?

Fred Armisen's charity man draws donors away from the store's own toy drive, setting off a string of escalating retaliations between the two collections.

On Superstore, Carol is suspended for trying to kill a co-worker's what?

Cat: Carol goes after her rival's pet at the rival's own wedding, returns from suspension to a staff still scared of her, and later sues the store after its cleaning robot electrocutes her.

On Superstore, which employee's push for a union puts Store 1217 at the top of corporate's closure list?

Sandra becomes the face of the union drive after being fired and reinstated for it; when Amy pleads the store's case at head office, she finds the bosses already know.

On Superstore, where is the corporate job that Amy leaves the store for in season six?

California has to wait: the season six opener spans March to July 2020, with the pandemic postponing Amy's move while the staff find themselves hailed as 'heroes'.

After Superstore's tech takeover, which sign-off is Glenn told he can no longer say to customers?

'Have a heavenly day' had long been the chain's standard farewell; losing it, on top of coupons going digital, convinces Glenn the new owners are out to control the staff, so he recruits spies.

In Superstore's finale, what is Store 1217 turned into once it closes to shoppers?

An online fulfilment centre takes over the building, with the store's assistant manager promoted to run it and allowed to keep just five colleagues on the payroll.

On Superstore, season six visitor Lowell Anderson is the son of whom?

Cloud 9's founder is his father; Lowell breezes in, imposes a string of ill-advised changes, then lets slip on his way out that the chain's owners plan to shut its stores.

What is the title of Superstore's Spanish-language remake, which debuted on Mexico's Azteca 7 in 2022?

Supertitlán was the show's first international version, and it changed the format as well as the language: its 48 episodes fill hour-long slots where the original ran 22 minutes.

In the flash-forward that ends Superstore, which office is Jonah running for?

City council is his next campaign, a fitting one for the man who spent years trying to unionise his colleagues; the same montage shows him married to Amy.

What is the title of Superstore's series finale?

All Sales Final closes with a farewell announcement over the store PA, played across a montage showing where each of the staff ends up.

What is the name of Cloud 9's in-house corporate magazine on Superstore?

Stratus sends a reporter to profile the store in the show's second episode; Amy, unimpressed, dismisses the magazine as misleading propaganda.

On Superstore, what is Cloud 9's cheery TV spokesman Kyle the Cloud arrested for in season two?

Cannibalism is the charge: the FBI says the man in the cloud costume killed and ate 14 people, and a rattled Glenn responds by drug-testing the whole staff.

In Superstore's second season, a morally opposed Cloud 9 employee is assigned to which sales counter?

The gun counter goes to Jonah, who refuses every customer he finds suspicious, which soon means all of them, and brings a gun-rights protest to the store.

On Superstore, which high-school sweetheart is the father of Amy's first two children?

Adam married Amy when she became pregnant as a teenager; they divorce during the series, yet he is also the father of the baby she has a season later.

In the Superstore pilot, a new hire sparks a stampede by accidentally repricing which goods at 25 cents?

Electronics were meant to go 25 per cent off; the newcomer keys 'reprice' where he should key 'reduce', drops them to 25 cents each, and shoppers stampede for the tills before the sale can be shut down.

A Cloud 9 store turns up in which other TV series, linking it to Superstore's world?

Good Girls sent its three suburban mothers-turned-robbers shopping at a Cloud 9 in its first season, a nod that put the crime drama in the same universe as the sitcom.

On Superstore, what kind of shop did Glenn's family run until Cloud 9 opened nearby and ruined it?

A hardware store called Sturgis & Sons traded for 59 years before Cloud 9 moved in up the street; in the finale's flash-forward Glenn reopens it and hires old colleagues.