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> Person A: そのちょっと変な写真だったって、えっと心霊写真みたいな  
>  Person B: どこで **仕入れて来た** んだそんなような話

What does 仕入れて来た mean here? I know the dictionary definition of 仕入れる which is
to stock up but I don't know its meaning here and can't understand its
connection with 来る.
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words usage subsidiary-verbs
What does 仕入れて来る mean here?
仕入れる also means 'to gain new information that may be useful' and て来る(てくる) is
called a kind of subsidiary verb - in this context, it means 'to get back
after doing something'.

Actually in this situation, this て来る doesn't have much meaning because B just
wanted to emphasize WHERE A heard that story. So 'どこで仕入れたんだそんなような話' is almost
the same as the original sentence.

For subsidiary verb, please refer below:

[What is a subsidiary
verb?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/18952/what-is-a-
subsidiary-verb)
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