How would you save such a repetitive data pair inside MySQL?
As separate key/value pairs, which is what you have already done.
The only situation I would reconsider this, is if you need to filter or search for restock posts via these IDs. If that is the case then I would use a private/hidden taxonomy where each term has the post ID as the slug. Post meta is not good for searches/filtering.
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