overstock
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During the early days of selling books online, he bought publisher overstock and made a nice living on eBay before Amazon put the squeeze on retail prices.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Santee came into existence in the mid-to-late 1970s for apparel businesses to sell their overstock items on the weekends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
At my Mariano’s, there’s a section labeled “Oops! We baked too much,” which houses overstock bread and pastries.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
Several companies are building marketplaces that aggregate idle capacity — consumer GPUs, academic clusters, enterprise overstock — and resell it at a fraction of centralized data-center costs.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 3, 2025
I’d grabbed it at work, overstock they were looking to dump, and now I knew why: It was disgusting.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
The onsite inventory includes many new materials, overstocks, last year’s models and construction-project misorders.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Raccoons seem to regard humans as the rube roommate who overstocks the fridge and conscientiously cleans up after everyone else.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2016
His work includes tableaux of empty shelves, overstocks of completely unrelated products in shuttered departments, and mannequins facing inward, half naked and seemingly ashamed.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 30, 2014
Reason: manufacturers are cutting prices below flat sheets to move big overstocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are first-rate business men: no auctions, which I detest: no overstocks, which will be the ruin of New York; well assorted, and in good condition.
From Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic by George Moore
Then, when demand slowed, customers would end up overstocked, prices would plunge, and memory makers would fall on hard times.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
It says that the price offered was because the company was overstocked, and the couple wanted a quick sale.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
In general, it’s difficult to completely attribute a fire to any individual factor, because flames are often fueled by a complex interplay of conditions — anything from overstocked forests to wind, Abatzoglou said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Local shops overstocked shelves with UW-themed products and bars advertised specials for the big game.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
They are good things in their way, but every woman who's got her living to earn thinks of them the very first thing and of nothing else, and the market is always overstocked.
From A Round Dozen by Susan Coolidge
As part of those plans, the company has been tweaking its manufacturing base to reduce dependence on Asian supply chains, allowing it to respond to changing trends quicker and limit overstocking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Products are donated by food industry partners from surplus stock due to overstocking or seasonal packaging.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
As retailers try to recover from overstocking that has led to discounting in the United States, Puma said its inventories fell by 20.3% compared to their level on Sept. 30 last year.
From Reuters ● Oct. 24, 2023
Rather than overstocking on perishables and other products, buying appropriate quantities of food reduces waste.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2021
He often speaks of regions being stocked with animal life to their full capacity, and from that overstocking he infers the necessity of competition.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
