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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Marshalls stock comes from sources like “department store cancellations, a manufacturer making up too much product, or a closeout deal when a vendor wants to clear merchandise at the end of a season.”
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This hasn’t been their model in 25 years. None of Ross, Marshall’s and tj maxx release actual data, but around 15 years ago they were saying around 10 percent of their merchandise is “real” stuff that would have otherwise been in a department store.

Fast forward 15 years and you can assume that number is much lower.  And more importantly, being a “department store cancellation” 99 percent of the time just means it might have gone on the racks at macys or similar. It doesn’t mean it was being sold at saks.  Apparently, according to some posters on here, some tj maxx still sell designer. Sure. I mean I haven’t seen it in ten years, but yes back in 2010 the tj maxx on south beach did have a small rack of really weird, “I can see why no one wanted this” designer brands. Maybe a few thousand pieces passes through that rack a year. And maybe there are 10-20 stores in the US that get the same. So maybe several thousand legitimate designer items of questionable fashionability across the US in any given year. And then hundreds of millions of garbage items thrown on top.

Also, when someone says they got a lovely plain white size M Vince shirt…. There is zero way this was a real shirt. A plain brand name shirt would have been purchased before making it to a junk store. If something looks like a normal, not weird designer item at tj maxx, it’s because it was made for tj maxx. [/quote]

I don’t think this is accurate, at least as far as the designer items go. I shop at the one on 59th St in Manhattan, which has a decent “Runway” (designer) section and the brand tags are always still on, so you can google the style. I find that the Theory/Vince/designers of that ilk stuff is usually from a prior season but it’s “real”. I bought this today for $40: https://www.rag-bone.com/sale/womens/tops/bardot-stripe-long-sleeve-tee-WCC23ST006ST06_1.html and a couple of weeks ago these jeans for $70: https://lagence.com/products/sada-jean-vintage-white?variant=31776834289767&srsltid=AfmBOoq35JPxJEi4Kn_8r11QpTUT1GzrKgpaV85IiJYLpWyoVlHKLuI2zac

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