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Around 2011, Michael Fallas, who once worked in family’s downtown store as a stock boy, converted the upstairs floors from offices to apartments while continuing to operate Fallas Paredes.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026 Tierney worked 32 hours a week during high school as a stock boy, contributing his earnings to the family.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026 Pedro Hernandez worked as a stock boy at that corner store by the bus stop.—
Richard Schlesinger,
CBS News,
25 Nov. 2025 No wonder Daniel Radcliffe's stock boy fell for her during Wiig's final season as a cast member.—
Hillary Busis,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2024 Although the two had crossed paths during the 1980s, when Marc Jacobs was still a teenager working as a stock boy at the famous Charivari store on the Upper West Side and Anna Sui was a customer, their friendship officially began in the 1990s.—
Irene Kim,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2024 Further back in time is Charivari, where Marc Jacobs once cut his teeth as a stock boy.—
Véronique Hyland,
ELLE,
17 July 2023 His own brother fired him from his first job as a stock boy at Woolworth’s.—Washington Post,
22 Apr. 2022 Two decades later, the Greek American novelist Harry Mark Petrakis wrote of his first day as a stock boy at a similar store.—
Ron Grossman,
chicagotribune.com,
1 Apr. 2022