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Origin of stocker
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They include a supermarket stocker who can’t afford to buy the groceries he puts on shelves, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Boasting everything from pickle and Caesar salad, to butter and even shiitake mushrooms, today's candy canes run the gamut of gag gifts and stocker stuffers to actually, surprisingly tasty treats.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2022
Monica Chatman was a single mother working two jobs, as a grocery store stocker and a FedEx driver, when she landed at Tesla in late 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
And he worked short stints as a stocker at the downtown Target store, and as a youth baseball and soccer coach in Brooklyn Center.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
The barrel and lock next pass into the hands of the stocker.
From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel
Then, in a fluorescent-lit clearing near the dairy refrigerator, a pair of stockers spent two shifts constructing a pyramid made of cans of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2023
Another third of grocery workers — general merchandise clerks including deli food preparers and non-food stockers — now earn a maximum of $17.02 an hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
Aldi will host a hiring week in September to fill an array of positions, including cashiers, stockers and associates, at its more than 2,100 stores and 25 warehouses across the country.
From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2021
Among the workers on strike were cashiers, stockers, bakers, deli clerks and butchers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2019
Some of his neighbors, traditional live- stockers, didn’t like him much, but he was the prototype of the new breed of western man.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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