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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
Christopher White told an overnight stocker at Sam’s Club as he typed the man’s information into his laptop computer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 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 stocker cuts away enough of the stock to receive the barrel, the lock, the ramrod, and shapes it a little.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
That includes an estimated 16,000 cooks and servers, 8,000 stockers and packers and 4,000 nursing assistants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
Cashiers, shopping-cart attendants, shelf stockers — their manager, Lorraine Baker, 57, calls them “my babies.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 2022
About 47,000 of the region’s grocery clerks, stockers and other workers at Ralphs and Albertsons, which also owns Safeway, Vons and Pavilions, could vote on June 20 to authorize a strike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2016
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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