Buying makeup and high end face creams and shampoos at TJ MAX or Tuesday Morning- the

[Anonymous]

You can tell the difference between the brand name, last season/defective clothes and the made for TJ maxx crap. The crap has flimsy little tags sewn in with two stitches with no name brands like “branch & fig” or “Authentique” (just nonsense examples). It’s the same with the beauty products. There’s the Elizabeth Arden and Shiseido, etc, that’s real but overstock or maybe had old packaging or then the super generic retinol cream and stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

I'm this PP and I've never bought products from my stylist through the salon in the all the years I've seen her. She's not pushy about that kind of thing in any way (that's part of why I like her so much, my previous stylist was always trying to get me to buy stuff and it got annoying).

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Was looking for a Homegoods location and came across this article:
https://www.thelist.com/179982/things-you-should-never-buy-at-tj-maxx/

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Think about the amount of labor it would require to keep a big box store in EVERY STRIP MALL IN AMERICA fully stocked with small lots of product. The amount of labor it would take to find, negotiate, ship, and plan enough batches of “mistake” inventory to fill thousands of stores. In a time when manufacturers value “lean” and “just in time” inventory (ie, small batches). There no way. NO WAY. maybe it started out as a place that sold scavenged real stuff, but there’s NO WAY that model would be scaleable at TJ Max national size.

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Anonymous wrote:For makeup, it's older, old packaging, and stuff that didn't sell very well. The markup on makeup is astonishing, so even if they can sell the lot to TJM for a small amount, they've probably made their costs back. In some cases, the makeup may be not great -- sometimes there's a problem with a product and they reformulate it and send it out again (eg, Anastasia Beverly Hills' Subculture palette). It's possible/probable that the older flawed ones also wind up at TJM.

Hi. You are my people because all I could think of while reading this thread was the the subculture palette! Which I actually picked up at TJ maxx! One off. I got lucky though I don't find the one I got to be patchy or too powdery. Not exactly the same as soft glam etc but I'm confident it was real vs the one I swatched in sephora.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

I'm this PP and I've never bought products from my stylist through the salon in the all the years I've seen her. She's not pushy about that kind of thing in any way (that's part of why I like her so much, my previous stylist was always trying to get me to buy stuff and it got annoying).

It likely was 2 years old plus and changed color from oxidation etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

Was this before or after he conned you into paying double for the product to buy it at his salon so he could get his 25% commission?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

Whether this is correct or not, I am not sure that I would trust your hairstylist who is presumably pushing his salon's brand.

Agree with this, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the TJ Max items were a but past their prime, particularly if they are paraben-free. There's a shampoo I used to love that is no longer manufactured but TJ Max had it long after I could no longer find it anywhere else. I kept buying but noticed over time that it didn't seem quite right anymore.

[Anonymous]

All the same with Tuesday Mornings- all makeup was real.

[Anonymous]

This article is pretty old, so things may have changed, but it explains why TJ Maxx has lower prices: https://corporette.com/my-visit-to-tj-maxx-hq/

TL;DR, it's their buying practices which are very different than department stores'.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have got to be kidding.

It's a well known, non controversial fact that something like 95% of stuff at TJ maxx is made specifically for those stores. They aren't overflow stuff from the manufacturers. There's a reason why TJ maxx always has the same brands month after month and across its stores. And that includes make up and beauty. It's because the products are made for TJ Maxx.

As far as clothing goes, the clothes would never have darkened the door of a real mall store. They are entirely different designs. Best case, they are a similar design with much cheaper fabric and other cheapness (no lining, fake pockets etc).

It's a lot more difficult to determine what's cheaper in a beauty product than the real thing - but you can be certain that the beauty products they're selling at TJ Maxx are NOT the same as what they are in Sephora or Ulta. Not sure if it's chemically different. Or maybe slightly smaller. Or cheaper packaging. But there's absolutely no way they are the same product.

I have never bought beauty products but not true about brand name clothes. Sure they have their house brand, but of course the brand name stuff is real. My kids have a couple favorite brands and the products are exactly the same as at the stores.

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I listened to a (reputable) business related podcast about a specific personal goods brand...they had a successful launch and then something happened (Can’t remember, but something like they lost their production space) and they lost a lot of business. The owner being interviewed said they got production back on track, but very low orders and were going to go out of business and TJM came thru with a huge order - literally saved their business. It is a well known company and you can buy their products at TJM or you can pay several dollars more to buy them elsewhere. That gave me more confidence in many of their products. Obviously some are defective or old, but not all. I agree they have some junky clothes, but honestly I feel like you can find poor quality stuff everywhere! On the other hand, I have seen the same brand and style of shirt at Nordstrom and TJM.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have got to be kidding.

It's a well known, non controversial fact that something like 95% of stuff at TJ maxx is made specifically for those stores. They aren't overflow stuff from the manufacturers. There's a reason why TJ maxx always has the same brands month after month and across its stores. And that includes make up and beauty. It's because the products are made for TJ Maxx.

As far as clothing goes, the clothes would never have darkened the door of a real mall store. They are entirely different designs. Best case, they are a similar design with much cheaper fabric and other cheapness (no lining, fake pockets etc).

It's a lot more difficult to determine what's cheaper in a beauty product than the real thing - but you can be certain that the beauty products they're selling at TJ Maxx are NOT the same as what they are in Sephora or Ulta. Not sure if it's chemically different. Or maybe slightly smaller. Or cheaper packaging. But there's absolutely no way they are the same product.

I don't agree with this. The high end TJ Maxx stores definitely sell designer gear that you could find in the high end stores. And designer bags... Some of hair and makeup products are the same, but sometimes I can find a special product by happenstance.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all have got to be kidding.

It's a well known, non controversial fact that something like 95% of stuff at TJ maxx is made specifically for those stores. They aren't overflow stuff from the manufacturers. There's a reason why TJ maxx always has the same brands month after month and across its stores. And that includes make up and beauty. It's because the products are made for TJ Maxx.

As far as clothing goes, the clothes would never have darkened the door of a real mall store. They are entirely different designs. Best case, they are a similar design with much cheaper fabric and other cheapness (no lining, fake pockets etc).

It's a lot more difficult to determine what's cheaper in a beauty product than the real thing - but you can be certain that the beauty products they're selling at TJ Maxx are NOT the same as what they are in Sephora or Ulta. Not sure if it's chemically different. Or maybe slightly smaller. Or cheaper packaging. But there's absolutely no way they are the same product.

I completely disagree with you about clothes (I never buy hair or skincare there). I often shop in their luxe section and find brands that I love seriously discounted. I can look up those items and find that they are current on the brands website or at intermix, sometimes full price and sometimes on sale.

I worked for TJXX for years. There are some brands that are made for them, but it is waaaaay less than 95%. Most of the items are actually overflow.
The other poster is right about outlet stores.

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Anonymous wrote:I asked my hair stylist about this once and she said one day her colleague went next door to TJ Maxx and bought a shampoo that the salon also had in stock. He poured them both out and the TJ Maxx one was a completely different color and consistency than the official brand shampoo from the salon. So personally I would think twice about buying beauty products and TJ Maxx or Marshalls.

There is a thing where some people will buy an expensive shampoo, pour it into a different container, put crappy shampoo into the bottle and return it.