overstock

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

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

He always overstocks his ground and starves instead of feeding, destroys whatsoever he has an extraordinary care for, and, like an ape, hugs the whelp he loves most to death.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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

It's also important to note too that the spice rack is just one part of an efficient — not overstocked — kitchen.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023

He selected—destiny always seemed to impel him to it—a "sweet woman," who overstocked his parsonage, and, like the magician's apprentice in the ballad, could not rule the young spirits she had evoked.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

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

Sad effects of a dry season and overstocking, eh?

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood