overstock

Grocery Outlet, founded in 1946 in San Francisco, is known for selling discounted overstock items, such as holiday foods and drinks nearing expiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 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

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

Swarms with overstocks of honey do not breed so well.

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

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

"They've overstocked too, and they now see the UK as a place to dump their bikes," he said, adding that he may now consider focusing solely on fold up e-bikes.

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

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

However, since we are so universally bent upon enlarging our flocks, it may be worth inquiring what we shall do with our wool, in case Barnstaple should be overstocked, and our French commerce should fail.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)

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

The overstocking of the Eastern and Indian markets during the trade boom of 1913, together with the financial crisis in India last year, has reduced the demand for cotton goods.

From The War and Democracy by