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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overstore .
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Examples
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"Retailers were overstored before we headed into the downturn," said Edward Yruma , a senior apparel and retail analyst at Keybanc Capital Markets.
Gap to Slash Its Store Count Dana Mattioli 2011
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Recognizing that it is overstored, it has begun running off leases, with an aim to reduce its nearly 900 North American Gap specialty stores by about a fifth by the end of next year, while adding to its roster of better-performing outlet stores.
Yawning Gap Is No Place For Investors Justin Lahart 2012
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Many experts and retailers believe that Long Island is already overstored.
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With the country both overbanked and overstored, the adjustments that the economy will have to go through will be wrenching.
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Many experts and retailers believe that Long Island is already overstored.
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"But if you look at the population growth over the next 40 years and the fact that it is a fragmented market where we only have 6% to 7% share, I don't see us overstored."
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We have a very powerful dynamic that keeps us overstored.
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It tingled through and through him, filled him as if he had been a battery overstored with electricity, shot out at his extremities in lightning flashes.
The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902
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Burt Flickinger, managing director with consulting firm Strategic Resources Group, argued that the retail industry is overstored and overemployed and perhaps has itself to blame for its recent woes.
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"Given the high levels of unemployment and lack of wage growth, a lot of retail is overstored right now," says Bob Summers, a senior research analyst at Pali Capital, which publishes IPO research.
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