There are so many books designed to help parents help their young children that bookstores don't have enough shelves to stock them.

Now, furnished and with shelves stocked, it brings back memories and comments of "I remember when . . ."

He was looking at shelves in the alcove; shelves stocked with wealth.

The village shop, such as it is, stands locked, its shelves usually stocked with sugar, maize-flour and cooking oil now bare.

Wingo always kept the shelves fully stocked.

Yet unlike Dell, Hewlett-Packard sells extensively through retailers, whose orders must be taken and shelves stocked.

Its executives have overcome many obstacles, like the scarcity of hard currency, but they still struggle to keep the shelves stocked.

Shelves lined every wall, the shelves well stocked with books, many leather bound, all looking quite undisturbed, like trompe l'oeil.

"We feel like this could be our best bet for keeping the shelves stocked all through the year, because it comes in every week," Ms. Biggs said.