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Sales & Retail vocabulary · Merchandising & Stock

Restock

Meaning in sales & retail, with examples

/ˌriːˈstɑːk/verbCore term

In sales & retail, restock means: To fill shelves or a shop again with new supplies of goods that have been sold, or to order more of a product.

In Turkish: stok yenilemek, rafları doldurmak, yeniden stoklamak

How it is used

Used daily in shops and warehouses. You restock the shelves, a product or a store; staff often restock early in the morning or after closing. The noun is restocking. Replenish is a more formal word with a similar meaning.

Example sentences

  1. Can you restock the water shelf before the lunchtime rush?

  2. That jacket sold out on Friday and won't be restocked until next month.

Common collocations

  • restock the shelves
  • restock a product
  • restocking schedule
  • restock overnight
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the shop or warehouse has none left.
  • inventoryAll the goods a business has in stock and available to sell, or a detailed list of them.
  • 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.

More terms: Merchandising & Stock

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