Essentials focuses primarily on own-brand products, only stocking branded items that are perceived to be at the "core" of a family's weekly shop.

Arranging inspection of these stocked items.

Distribution of these stocked items by multi-modal logistics to various consumption centers.

He also started stocking such items as herb vinegars, figs and specialty pastas made, for example, from spinach or squid ink.

Some museums and nonprofit organizations specialize in stocking items made by groups they are trying to help.

After twenty years, it began stocking items that many normal supermarkets at the time did not.

The shop may also stock unusual items which customers would be unable to obtain elsewhere, or more 'exclusive' fashions etc.

The company also stocks a variety of international and local brands, as well as items in their own name.

Kim Harwood, the store's manager, has noted a "tremendous increase" in sales of fine men's jewelry since the store began stocking such items a decade ago.

In response to the neighborhood's demographics, they stock items that appeal to Indians from two hemispheres.