How to Use stockroom in a Sentence
stockroom
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Wayne Haight, who works in the stockroom, had his mask on, even during a short break outside.
—Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
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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
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She was later assigned to work in a kitchen and stockroom in the Birkenau section of Auschwitz.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
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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
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Eliminating the stockroom frees up thousands of square feet that can be added to the sales floor.
—Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
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Plus tomatoes in more colors, sizes, and styles than shoes in a Nordstrom stockroom.
—Beth Segal, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My other options have been stockroom jobs at fashion stores or temp agencies that are looking for people.
—John Kell, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2020
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The stockroom, the grounds, the bathrooms, everything was immaculate.
—Aaron Randle, kansascity, 4 Mar. 2018
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Shoppers reported that store employees in some cases told them to hide in stockrooms.
—Fox News, 15 Dec. 2019
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Perhaps keep your stockroom full and have employees who hustle refill stock.
—Elie Y. Katz, Forbes, 26 May 2021
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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
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Impacts worked in the stockroom and occasionally on the shop floor during busy periods.
—Diyora Shadijanova, refinery29.com, 25 May 2022
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The fifth-floor stockroom contains the more toxic organic chemicals and solvents.
—Diana Lambert, sacbee.com, 28 May 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Downstairs in a stockroom, Tracy Anderson was fatally shot as well.
—Katie Dowd, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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