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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm always amazed people think they are getting real brands at these stores.

While I'll concede a small percent of stuff at these stores is "real" merchandise (I'd assume less than 2% at this point), the stuff with "brand names" is mostly just junk that NR or TJM or whomever has paid licensing rights to slap a Kate Spade or Joe's Jeans or Theory tag on.

This transformation started happening majorly around 20 years ago.

Even the stuff that looks one of a kind in the store, if it has a brand name slapped on it, I assume NR just bought a massive overstock bundle of clothes from a factory in Bangladesh and glued on brand labels.  [/quote]

I don’t disagree with you that many of the contemporary brands have made-for-outlet lines for discount stores, but I’m in NYC and pretty regularly pop into TJMaxx because it’s very close to my home. It has a decent Runway section and those pieces are absolutely real, random overstock pieces that somehow made their way to TJM. I’ve bought Rag & Bone, Cuyana, Theory, and Canada Goose there, and the pieces have the original brand tag are often still listed on the brand’s website or at department stores (typically the item is on sale, but not always). I’ve also seen pretty high-end designer items - Burberry, YSL, and the like. It’s often clear why they ended up at TJM instead of selling for full price (like a bright red sleeveless trench coat), but they’re there and I’m confident they’re “real” as opposed to the outlet line.

And then, I stopped by a TJM location in Chicago last week, and they had a whole rack of Calvin Klein sheath dresses in a full size run. That is clearly an outlet line. I’m just saying it’s pretty obvious when stuff is made for outlet vs. not at these stores.

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PP you're responding to and i'd agree with the Runway stuff - but they only have that in maybe 10% of their stores. At most, that probably makes up 2% of their overall merchandise, which is inline with my comment above.  The full rack of CC dresses is a dead giveaway. But I'd also say that single items they have on the racks are often fakes as well. That's my point where they bought thousands of random ends from asian manufacturers and slap random labels on.  We all know that 99% of clothes manufacturing is made in a handful of sweatshots in asia, and it's just random whether those clothes get assigned to Zara, H&M, Old Navy or the "miscellaneous pile" that gets sent to NR, TJM, etc. [/quote]

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