stock boy

American  

Or stockboy

noun

1. a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.

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stock boy

I worked at a button factory as a stock boy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

In 1978, 15-year-old Robert Piest landed a job as a stock boy at Nisson pharmacy in Chicago, Illinois.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

I’ve seen these contraptions in action, and it reminded me of a grocery store stock boy putting adhesive price labels on cans of French-cut green beans.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2021

By eighth grade, he was working as a stock boy in a hardware store.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

I love to walk down the aisles, half expecting I’ll find Chucha with the big feather duster the stock boy uses to clean the shelves.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

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