How to Use stockroom in a Sentence

stockroom

noun

• Wayne Haight, who works in the stockroom, had his mask on, even during a short break outside.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• Some employees were told to pull all items from the stockroom onto the sales floor to make the stores look fuller, the people said.
  — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
• She was later assigned to work in a kitchen and stockroom in the Birkenau section of Auschwitz.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
• The Cleveland man, 22, moved several items from the floor to a stockroom, then placed them into bags and walked out of the store with them.
  — cleveland, 23 Oct. 2019
• Eliminating the stockroom frees up thousands of square feet that can be added to the sales floor.
  — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
• Plus tomatoes in more colors, sizes, and styles than shoes in a Nordstrom stockroom.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
• Her first job was working overnights in the stockroom at the former East Brunswick store, earning $3.35 an hour.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 30 June 2018
• Cole works in a nursing home (and is a caring presence there), but would never stoop to stealing meds from the stockroom.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2020
• If the produce looks old at the grocery store, ask an employee to bring you better options from the stockroom.
  — Jennifer Farley, charlotteobserver, 10 Apr. 2018
• Her soon-to-open storefront, which was already in the works, shifted from floral shop to grocery stockroom.
  — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2021
• Also, it was supposed to help reduce or eliminate the time that goods are kept in a store’s stockroom before hitting the aisles.
  — Ziati Meyer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018
• The old stockroom, once full of appliances waiting for service, sits empty now, sealed to keep the building’s heating bill low.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2018
• Saks is also moving fine jewelry from the ground floor to the basement, space that had previously served as a stockroom.
  — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• My other options have been stockroom jobs at fashion stores or temp agencies that are looking for people.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2020
• The stockroom, the grounds, the bathrooms, everything was immaculate.
  — Aaron Randle, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
• Shoppers reported that store employees in some cases told them to hide in stockrooms.
  — Fox News, 15 Dec. 2019
• Perhaps keep your stockroom full and have employees who hustle refill stock.
  — Elie Y. Katz, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Items from Zara and Inditex’s seven other brands will be shipped out from the company’s existing online stockrooms around the world.
  — Jeannette Neumann, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• Impacts worked in the stockroom and occasionally on the shop floor during busy periods.
  — Diyora Shadijanova, refinery29.com, 25 May 2022
• The fifth-floor stockroom contains the more toxic organic chemicals and solvents.
  — Diana Lambert, sacbee.com, 28 May 2017
• On a recent visit by The Bee to the fourth-floor stockroom, a staff member pointed out corroded drawer handles, door jambs and metal outlet covers.
  — Diana Lambert, sacbee.com, 28 May 2017
• Among other things, the lawsuit accuses Walmart of hiding the cereals in a stockroom, placing them in the baby or clearance sections, and hiking their prices to more than $10 a box.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• There are 300-square-foot studios with plywood walls and open-air ceilings, walk-in storefronts with garage doors that open onto a central parking lot, and a former factory stockroom.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• During the pandemic, the hospital ran as low as a 10-day reserve of dexamethasone, when the typical stockroom supply should be no less than 30 days, Balmir said.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
• The characters are on a lower pay scale than your typical showy Hollywood setting, yet still look past initial pride and prejudices to find a love story for the ages in a humble stockroom.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• The characters are on a lower pay scale than your typical showy Hollywood setting, yet still look past initial pride and prejudices to find a love story for the ages in a humble stockroom.
  — Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• But not everyone knows how to access those services -- and even the people who do have not always been able to use them, as competing orders crowd delivery times and empty stockrooms.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 24 Mar. 2020
• Downstairs in a stockroom, Tracy Anderson was fatally shot as well.
  — Katie Dowd, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• An associate can check with a tablet the availability of a product in the store's stockroom, at a nearby store, within its national chain, or at the company's central warehouse.
  — Forbes, 28 May 2021
• In Nevada’s first half, Binnie evokes the mundane reality of bookselling in detail vivid enough that stockroom dust practically rises from the page.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024