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

From The Wall Street Journal

I worked at a button factory as a stock boy.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon

Don Michalsky, 73, said he has eaten at the Pekin since he worked as a stock boy at Woolworth’s more than 60 years ago.

From New York Times

In the summer of 1957, when I was 15, I was hitchhiking to my part-time job as a stock boy at the Guess Your Age stand at Glen Echo Amusement Park.

From Washington Post