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

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

On Facebook Marketplace, he tries to buy more overstock, such as cans of P&G’s Febreze room spray that he purchases at bargain-basement prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

Kids' fickle tastes ensure eBay auctions for the hottest toys, overstocks of past winners and frustration all around.

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 Moore, George

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

The retail context is where approximately 14 per cent of avoidable food waste occurs as foods are often overstocked by grocery stores prioritizing constant availability at the expense of wasted product.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024

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

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

Potatoes are not only served at luncheon and dinner, but also at breakfast everywhere, and, if every settler planted his land with potatoes, there would be no fear of overstocking the market.

From A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California by Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)