How to Use stocker in a Sentence

stocker

noun
  • He works as a produce stocker at the grocery store.
  • Same goes for store stockers who work through the night.
    Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Part of what makes these fish such an achievement in the stocker scene is their size.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The change includes cashiers, shelf stockers and deli workers at the select stores.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Tizya-Tramm’s first job after returning home was as a shelf-stocker at the co-op.
    Tik Root, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • And the convenience store stocker may carry cases by hand from the back.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • This is a player who, during his college career, worked as a cashier and stocker at Walmart.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • To speed up the hiring process for roles like cashiers and stockers, the hiring process will be reduced from a two-week application cycle to a 24-hour one.
    Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Blevins had an interview and got hired on the spot as an overnight stocker, a job that included unloading trucks, Yeatts said.
    Ben Finley, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The overnight stocker and maintenance worker died two days after he was sent home from work, according to NBC.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Agnes’ best friend, Mary (Molly Quinn), is one of the ones who quits and then struggles to adjust to a lonely existence as a grocery store shelf-stocker.
    Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • All the grocery store workers are heroes, everyone from the overnight stockers at Kroger to the do-everything managers at mom-and-pop stores.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Copeland scraped together money as a retail cashier and stocker at a drugstore and later in a Church’s Chicken kitchen.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2018
  • She had been employed with Walmart as an overnight stocker since last spring, according to the lawsuit, and Mr. Bing was her manager.
    Sarah Nassauer, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • While just about any lightweight reel may suffice for panfish or small stocker trout, larger and stronger fish require a more robust tool.
    Pete Robins, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
  • Scotch had colleagues who doubled as liquor store clerks and shelf stockers at Banana Republic.
    David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • And if stores cut hours excessively or if hourly employees like shelf stockers or cashiers self-quarantine and don't show up for work, lines could grow.
    NBC News, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Kelly, who works as overnight stocker, claims in his lawsuit that Bing was his supervisor and had badgered him since the start of his employment at the Walmart in August 2022.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In California, John worked as a gas station attendant overnight, a stocker in a liquor store during the day, then as a security guard, a bus boy and a waiter.
    Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2021
  • The retailer and member warehouse club has store jobs that include cashier, stocker, meat cutter, and pharmacist, among others.
    Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
  • In this way, the pandemic has put grocery-store stockers and cashiers in an impossible situation.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Frankie is a good father, a loving husband, a loyal brother, a supermarket stocker, an all-round decent guy, and, oh yeah, a murdering thief.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • That’s not because warehouses and freight companies didn’t need shelf-stockers and drivers, says Andrew Challenger, vice president of the Challenger firm.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
  • In recognition of that, states like Minnesota and Vermont have now moved to classify grocery store clerks and stockers as emergency workers.
    Christina Capatides, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The jobs being filled include cashiers, lawn and garden associates, stockers, assemblers of outdoor products, and loaders.
    Daniel B. Kline, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Maria Hernandez, a stocker, has worked at the store for seven years and knows the regular customers who buy potatoes, chickens and cucumbers on Thursdays and Fridays for Shabbat dinner.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The boom in warehouses has created a seemingly endless appetite for stockers, pickers and packers, turning the town into a magnet for people in need of a second chance.
    Natalie Kitroeff, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2017
  • And while there’s definitely a measure of fear among shoppers, Sweany said there’s also an enormous level of gratitude – that clerks, stockers and managers keep showing up every day, despite the health risk, to keep food on the shelves.
    oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Minnesota, too, has added store clerks, stockers, food preparation staff and other grocery store employees to the list of emergency workers, giving them access to free child care.
    Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Fox, who lives in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, was laid off from her job as an inventory stocker at an auto-parts retailer in March.
    Jessica Menton, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2020

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