Do you buy food from TJ Max or Homegoods- are they manufacturer rejects?

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

Please stop making shit up. You sound unhinged.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you are such snobs! Do you shop at World Market?

Anyway, I buy: tea, k pods for coffee (Starbucks, white mountain, dunkin), spices, vinegar, candy, and sometimes chips. Never ever had a problem.

You’re not saving any substantial sum of money. Some of you are just addicted to shopping and fake deals. Or just have no standards. This is a website for college educated parents in an expensive major city, you’re acting like a broke college freshman. It’s…low.

I make a lot of money and shop at TJMaxx very regularly. I live on the Upper East Side and there’s a well-stocked one five blocks from my home. I’ve found really great things (both home and designer clothing) there, often things that are still full-price on the original retailer’s website.

Last week I purchased a $275 Cuyana sweater for $39.95. I have the same one in a different color that I bought at the Cuyana store for full price in February. I’ve also gotten tons of kitchen items there, most recently a pair of Williams Sonoma kitchen shears for $5 that I saw selling for $25 at Williams Sonoma shortly afterward.

Being a snob about these kinds of stores is kind of gross in general, but your comment is actually inaccurate. You can absolutely find great stuff there. I get why people might not want to spend the time and effort to do that, but absolutely it’s possible.

That is a good TJ maxx. I’m in tribeca so I don’t make it up there often, but I do frequently go to the Costco/aldi/target mecca on east 117th. Good stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

Please stop making shit up. You sound unhinged.

Says the peasant bragging about eating food from TJ Maxx.

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

Please stop making shit up. You sound unhinged.

Says the peasant bragging about eating food from TJ Maxx.

I'm sure you think you sounded smart with that retort.

[Anonymous]

The Torani and Monin coffee syrups if they happen to have a flavor I like. Used to buy chocolate but got a bad box (likely just improper storage) and never did afterwards.

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I go there to get pink salt and mixed peppercorns to fill my grinders. It's the closest place to my home to pick them up, and since they're sold in big containers they last forever.

If a novelty product catches my eye and is cheap enough, I might grab one. My expectations are generally low, but I haven't had anything "bad", per se.

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

DP. TJ Maxx does not sell expired food, so it’s been in transit about as long as the same stuff at CVS or the grocery store or wherever you choose to buy it.

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

DP. TJ Maxx does not sell expired food, so it’s been in transit about as long as the same stuff at CVS or the grocery store or wherever you choose to buy it.

But it sits there much longer since most people don’t go there to buy “food”

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

DP. TJ Maxx does not sell expired food, so it’s been in transit about as long as the same stuff at CVS or the grocery store or wherever you choose to buy it.

But it sits there much longer since most people don’t go there to buy “food”

It really doesn’t. I’m the PP who regularly (around 2x/week) visits my TJ Maxx in NYC. I always do a quick browse in the food aisle because it’s right next to the kitchen stuff and I’m a foodie so I like to look at groceries. It turns over quickly. I don’t go in for food items, but once bought pasta because I needed tagliatelle and they happened to have it. I imagine a lot of people do the same.

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Yes, their snacks and candies are tasty!

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They aren't rejects. They are overstocks- absolutely nothing wrong with them. Also, some great stuff!

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I impulse buy candy there sometimes -- jelly bellies or chocolate. It's totally fine, and I've never gotten anything that's expired or tastes off.

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Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

DP. TJ Maxx does not sell expired food, so it’s been in transit about as long as the same stuff at CVS or the grocery store or wherever you choose to buy it.

But it sits there much longer since most people don’t go there to buy “food”

It really doesn’t. I’m the PP who regularly (around 2x/week) visits my TJ Maxx in NYC. I always do a quick browse in the food aisle because it’s right next to the kitchen stuff and I’m a foodie so I like to look at groceries. It turns over quickly. I don’t go in for food items, but once bought pasta because I needed tagliatelle and they happened to have it. I imagine a lot of people do the same.

I agree, but you'll never convince the ex-urban moms of Loudon that they aren't high falutin by shopping at...Safeway? Just ignore it, it's insecure ignorance. That's a great TJ you have and there are a few like that here too and these people are just anxious nutjobs. I don't even really shop there, but the OCD crazy on this board is out of control. It's fine. We're all fine. Logic will not make sense to the nutters.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On what planet is saving a couple dollars to buy preservative filled slop food at a trashy discount clothing store worth it? Have some dignity for goodness sake.

So different then buying preservative filled slop food from the grocery story..

Wait, I thought American chocolate was garbage and the European stuff was much better? But if it passes through the doors of a discount store, it becomes tainted, somehow?

How much chocolate do you consume that you need to buy it on discount from TJ Maxx? I mean seriously. If you enjoy chocolate, treat yourself once in a while to good, high quality stuff. Not garbage on the floor at TJ Maxx, after it sat in warehouses, boats, trains, and long-haulers for years.

DP. TJ Maxx does not sell expired food, so it’s been in transit about as long as the same stuff at CVS or the grocery store or wherever you choose to buy it.

But it sits there much longer since most people don’t go there to buy “food”

It really doesn’t. I’m the PP who regularly (around 2x/week) visits my TJ Maxx in NYC. I always do a quick browse in the food aisle because it’s right next to the kitchen stuff and I’m a foodie so I like to look at groceries. It turns over quickly. I don’t go in for food items, but once bought pasta because I needed tagliatelle and they happened to have it. I imagine a lot of people do the same.

I agree, but you'll never convince the ex-urban moms of Loudon that they aren't high falutin by shopping at...Safeway? Just ignore it, it's insecure ignorance. That's a great TJ you have and there are a few like that here too and these people are just anxious nutjobs. I don't even really shop there, but the OCD crazy on this board is out of control. It's fine. We're all fine. Logic will not make sense to the nutters.

Safeway has a special food safety manager that patrols the store looking at food expiration dates. /s

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I’ve gotten apple chips for half the price of what is charged on Amazon. And cheaper thanSam’s Club. The brand is Rind.

But I did get a small package of macarons as filler because they looked cute. They were gross. Cookies or biscottis in cellophane bags are mostly gross.

But jams, jellies, olive oils, maple syrup, etc. are good for gift baskets. Stick with name brand stuff and you can get fabulous deals.