Anonymous
07/11/2025 20:32
Subject: Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
Anonymous wrote:A few weeks ago I dropped my dog off at the groomers in a weird part of Fairfax, and, given traffic, if I drove home I was basically going to have to turn right around and come back to get her. So I decided to kill time.
There was a Burlington (branded "Burlington" now, but used to be "Burlington Coat Factory") right around the corner. I decided to play a game with it to kill time -- because I had a couple of hours I would go through the whole store, looking carefully at everything, to see if there could possibly be anything I might want. I did it -- looked at basically everything. Even grabbed a cart just in case. Do you know what I bought? A notebook -- so that I could kill more time in the cafe around the corner journaling. The entire -- very, very large -- store was full of nothing but trash.
Burlington is, of course, a few notches below Nordstrom Rack--the store named by OP. I'd rank NR over TJ Maxx and Marshals, and TJ Maxx and Marshals over Burlington. But still -- I found nothing to buy.
The last time I was at Nordstrom rack I got some pink joggers that I loved. But then I washed them once and they were like tissue paper. You could see straight through them -- totally unwearable, at least in public. It was the NR at Tysons. I'd been to the one on L St a few months before that and found nothing. The last time I was at TJ Maxx was around the same time, the one on Leesburg Pike, and there was nothing good at all. Nothing I would want, anyway.
FWIW, I enjoy fashion and clothes, but I'm no real stylist or anything. So I'm not being snobby when I say these places were full of trash. They were full of trash.
Doing God's work
Anonymous
07/11/2025 20:29
Subject: Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
Anonymous wrote:I search for certain brands I like online and can sometimes get amazing deals. I no longer enjoy going into the stores themselves.
Same - I don’t like Nordstrom rack in the store but I’ve had some really good finds online.
Anonymous
07/11/2025 14:10
Subject: Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
I lost 70 lbs due to a health crisis. Once I was well enough to return to work, none of my career clothes fit. Even my shoes were too big. I was able to buy a new wardrobe in a single trip to the Nord Rack in Shady Grove.
Anonymous
07/11/2025 12:47
Subject: Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
When I had no money there were plenty of places to get good quality things, now that I have money to spend, I can't find good quality items anymore. Most everything it cheap crap from china. Fabrics are thin, no one wants to use high quality cottons anymore. So now all these stores sell the same picked through crap. More annoying is TJmaxx, Home goods, marshalls are owned by the same company and their all just more clutter, one after another in all of americans strip malls. It's just so depressing. American is like one huge, sad, old strip mall with the same repetitive stores with different names to try and fool the masses all in the name of consumerism. It's pathetic.
Anonymous
07/09/2025 21:55
Subject: Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
I just went to NR in Tysons for the first time in over 10 years. What a bunch of nothing they had to offer. The lighting in the store alone was enough of a turnoff. Lack of merchandise. Shiite overall.
Anonymous
07/09/2025 21:53
Subject: Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
I saw something on Instagram recently about you could tell by the number on the price tag whether the item was made for Nordstrom Rack or an actual item from Nordstrom or… there was one more category- can’t remember! If the last number was a 1, that was good, but a 7, skip it? Who knows. I occasionally find stuff in there but it’s generally exhausting!
Anonymous
07/09/2025 19:00
Subject: Re:Can someone explain the allure of Nordstrom Rack (and other discount stores)?
Anonymous wrote:Just bought 2 Chantelle bras — for a bit less than the price of 1.
NR is GREAT for bras, underwear, layering tanks, socks, and pajamas. They even carry my slightly off beat bra size. I mostly shop online and rarely look at much else but they are my go to for these items.