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Anonymous wrote:I like TJ Maxx and I just bought a Birkin. Is it disorganized? Yes but that's kind of the fun of it. I don't buy clothing there but I have purchased: towels, pots and pans, dog toys and bedding, cleaning supplies (yes they do have them in some stores) pillows, gift bags and wrapping paper, etc.

I’ve gotten decent things at TJ Maxx in Tysons but no way did you get a real Birkin at a TJ Maxx. How much did you pay for it? If you are for real I am so stressed out for you. I mean, kidding, but I think you got taken for a ride!

Anonymous wrote:I like TJ Maxx and I just bought a Birkin. Is it disorganized? Yes but that's kind of the fun of it. I don't buy clothing there but I have purchased: towels, pots and pans, dog toys and bedding, cleaning supplies (yes they do have them in some stores) pillows, gift bags and wrapping paper, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like TJ Maxx and I just bought a Birkin. Is it disorganized? Yes but that's kind of the fun of it. I don't buy clothing there but I have purchased: towels, pots and pans, dog toys and bedding, cleaning supplies (yes they do have them in some stores) pillows, gift bags and wrapping paper, etc.

Ah yes, your TJ Maxx birkin bag is definitely authentic. Of course.

Anonymous wrote:Who the hell cares? Especially for basics. The super $$ shit people buy doesn’t look any different. Clothes is clothes.

Anonymous wrote:I like TJ Maxx and I just bought a Birkin. Is it disorganized? Yes but that's kind of the fun of it. I don't buy clothing there but I have purchased: towels, pots and pans, dog toys and bedding, cleaning supplies (yes they do have them in some stores) pillows, gift bags and wrapping paper, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.”

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.

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

Rag and bone and l’agence are both brands that make either for rj maxx or have their own outlets. Rag and bone has outlets all over the place. The shirt you got was made for an outlet, sorry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.”

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.

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

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.”

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.