stocker
- noun
- /ˈstɑːkər/
- US
- As a stocker at the supermarket, her job involves organizing the aisles neatly.
- grocery stocker
- store stocker
Examples
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I never understood why cashiers and shelf-stockers need a union.
Blog text (13) -
Forget college—you don't even need a high school diploma to be a stocker or a cashier.
Blog text (18) -
16 -- Worked as a cashier/stocker at a dollar store
Blog text (9) -
I am just a level one Night Stocker at the bottom, and that's what I choose to be, so I take pride in what I do!
Blog text (13) -
Attention all units in the vicinity of Crenshaw and Stocker.
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Because he is walking instead of riding the bus, he becomes the victim of bullies who steal his salary as he walks home from his job as a stocker in a grocery store.
Academic text (2002) -
At fifteen, he wore store-bought clothes and was already working part-time in the local grocery and feed store as a stocker and cashier.
Fiction book (2001) -
We have a meeting before we go to work (I work overnights as a stocker), and supposedly the store manager was very displeased with his "walk."
Blog text (34) -
They examined the Menards' flier and paged a stocker to price check the insulation.
Blog text (2) -
The stocker made sure the shelves were filled with fresh produce every morning.
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Morphology
Etymology
Stocker comes from stock, which means 'goods' or 'supplies', plus the ending -er that makes a word mean 'a person who does something'. So a stocker is the person who keeps a shop or supermarket full by putting items on the shelves.