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Out of stock

Meaning in sales & retail, with examples

phraseCore term

In sales & retail, out of stock means: Not available to buy at the moment because the shop or warehouse has none left.

In Turkish: stokta yok, stoğu tükenmiş, tükendi

How it is used

Said to customers in shops and shown on websites. Something is, goes or runs out of stock; the opposite is in stock. A situation where an item has run out is a stockout. A polite way to tell a customer: “I'm afraid that size is out of stock at the moment.”

Example sentences

  1. I'm sorry, the black one is out of stock, but we can order it for you.

  2. Popular sizes go out of stock in the first week of the sale.

Common collocations

  • go out of stock
  • currently out of stock
  • out-of-stock items
  • back in stock
  • inventoryAll the goods a business has in stock and available to sell, or a detailed list of them.
  • restockTo fill shelves or a shop again with new supplies of goods that have been sold, or to order more of a product.
  • stockroomA room at the back of a shop where extra goods are kept until they are needed on the sales floor.
  • SKUStock keeping unit: a unique code a retailer gives to each version of a product, so that each size, colour or pack type can be tracked separately.

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