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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Example Sentences

As a teenager, he also worked as a stock boy in a grocery store.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 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

From 1978 to 1981, I worked as a stock boy in one of the shops Disney operated at the Disneyland Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2019

There was only one container of fuchsia on the shelf, so we asked a stock boy to go find more.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen