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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
Blevins had an interview and got hired on the spot as an overnight stocker, a job that included unloading trucks, Yeatts said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
Kevin Harper, a 34-year-old stocker, said he left the break room about five minutes before Bing entered.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 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 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
Cashiers, shopping-cart attendants, shelf stockers — their manager, Lorraine Baker, 57, calls them “my babies.”
From New York Times ● May 16, 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
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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