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Sales & Retail vocabulary · Merchandising & Stock

Stockroom

Meaning in sales & retail, with examples

/ˈstɑːkruːm/nounCore term

In sales & retail, stockroom means: A room at the back of a shop where extra goods are kept until they are needed on the sales floor.

In Turkish: mağaza deposu, depo, stok odası

How it is used

Used every day by shop staff. You check the stockroom, go to the stockroom or bring something out from it. A typical line to a customer: “Let me check in the stockroom for your size.” Also called the back room or stock room.

Example sentences

  1. Let me check the stockroom; we might have a size 38 in the back.

  2. The new delivery is still in the stockroom, so the shelves look empty.

Common collocations

  • check the stockroom
  • in the stockroom
  • stockroom staff
  • organise the stockroom
  • 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.
  • sales floorThe part of a shop where products are displayed and customers walk around and shop, as opposed to the stockroom or offices.
  • stocktakeA full count of all the goods a shop or warehouse has, done to check that the real stock matches the records.
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the shop or warehouse has none left.

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