overstock

Grocery Outlet was founded in San Francisco in 1946 as a discount grocery store chain selling overstock of limited-time or holiday food items.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

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

But some retailers began abandoning certain product lines after grappling with product shortages and overstocks during the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

For the market is overstocked, and every crop overstocks it more.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

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

He said the latest move by the government, which he described as a "very strange decision", would bring a "flood" of cheaper Chinese imports to an already overstocked market.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 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

This increases the vulnerability of unmanaged and overstocked forests to wildfire.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

And finally, if the ripe fruit survived the frost barrage and reached the packing-house, it was only to be pushed on into the "No Man's Land" of an overstocked market.

From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

The company is cutting its reliance on Asian supply chains to speed up delivery of new collections, limiting overstocking and reducing discounting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

That neither of these reasons will account for the change, I shall prove more at length, in my remarks on Honey, and when I discuss the question of overstocking a district with bees.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth