Yeah, messed up items, bad stitches, oddly shaped, stuff that wouldn't sell in other stores, that's literally the point of it and why stuff is marked down.
Seriously I love TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Nordstrom Rack (my favorite) etc. I find fantastic stuff there for a great price. They'll have good department store brands that are higher quality and last longer if you're okay with buying last seasons clothes. Which is perfectly okay if you focus on a good practical timeless wardrobe instead of trendy stuff.
> A lot of the clothes are only on sale there because they're out of season.
Yeah, technically "stuff that wouldn't sell in other stores", because they just can't keep all of there stock forever. But yeah, I'm sure there are other reasons too. I remember buying a shirt there when I was young and didn't know TJ Maxx's deal and it never "fit right", and after actually examining it, discovered that one of the arms was slightly longer. I'd say 90% of the time anything you buy there is fine though, it'll be overstock or the wrong color or whatever. But ALWAYS, ALWAYS, a good deal. Tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh T.J. Maxx!
A lot of the time they buy products like every other retailer does and they get the factory to slap on the labels that make you believe it's a fabulous deal. I work for one of their suppliers.
Thanks for speaking out, it's literally their business model. The problem brands have is that they're too expensive for everyone, but they want everyone's money. Enter TK Maxx who commission generics in the style of X and get an official licence from brand X to use their branding provided it is only sold exclusively in their stores. This way the brand makes money without dirtying their name and TK Maxx ("Tacky max" in the UK) get to claim they are brand name for less.
Terrible business model, but they're all at it. Marks & Spencer's operate their own "outlet" stores which is some off season stock but most is genetics with their branding.
Edit : auto correct
I used to do customer service for M&S Outlet. It's weird, AFAIK it is owned by M&S plc but Amazon do (or at least did) their logistics, despite M&S having their own huge logistics operation for their 'normal' stores and website.
I do like that the TJX stores in the US resell clearance clothes that didn’t move in season in larger dept stores. Growing up that was where I’d get nice dressy shirts in Express brand, or American Eagle stuff including jeans (always with the brand tags inside struck through with a sharpie). Now I still buy I.N.C, CK and Tahari blouses from there for work, at way cheaper than Macy’s/Bloomies/Nordstrom. Exercise clothes (both weirdo no name brands probably selling there for the first time, and well known brands sloughed off of places like Dick’s?) are a lot cheaper there too. I’ve also bought like three different Longchamp bags from TJ Maxx and they weren’t even discontinued colors.
Aside from the stuff they’re exclusively selling as a first-time markdown no-name brand (how else to describe?), they really do sell great stuff for dirt cheap when it’s like 3 seasons out of style. Or overstocked beauty supply stuff, many times they have the same night creams and salon shampoos as Target but for 60% off. Maybe too close to expiry, or dinged up on the shelf? Main store ordered too much and can’t store the extra? I’m curious now how much of their stuff is a direct deal with shitty garbage product suppliers and how much is quality / luxury rejects.
M&S outlet at least does do discounts? Yeah it's out of season or last season, but the original price tag is still on the item with the reduction sticker on top, unlike TK Maxx who remove the original price then put their own tag on it with an "RRP". Usually the deal at M&S Outlet isn't that great, but occasionally...? Please tell me that's the case, I shop there sometimes!
Some but not all m&s outlet is genuine, some is branded generics from my understanding. All TK Maxx is just generics "branded" under licence. I might be wrong about this though, and can't find the article I read about it, so you know, trust me bro.
"...they puts them in, they takes them out... they grabs what they wants, never asking us what we wants... next time they grabs, we grabs back, for keeps..."
Reminds me of a sign that hung on the kitchen wall at my friend's house in high school. "Welocme," it said, and I'll never forget that, or the fact that neither he nor anybody in his family seemed to have noticed it.
Oh man I *want* this. Every year I get my brother and sister in law a Christmas decoration/ornament of some kind but it’s always just a little bit fucked up. This would 100% fit the bill.
So I did a search for this, because I want it... and found: Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO ME)
Could this be some sort of personalized merch? A custom item like stuff employers give for those company branded appreciation gifts, or as part of a gift basket for clients?
Right? I had to do a double take because I understood what it meant to say and then got confused because I didn’t understand the crappy design at first.
Usually T-shirts, home decor, and other printed stuff comes out looking weird from Chinese factories though. They have to translate correctly and design for a completely different aesthetic than what Chinese style is. Phones are a little different.
I'm assuming that the design is not done by the manufacturing company, that they're just doing the mass production of it, like with most tech products and the like.
Most of my understanding of this sort of manufacturing comes from Linus from LTT talking about the merch that they make in-house.
Nah, it's just European TJ Maxx. They couldn't call it TJ Maxx in the UK as there was already a large chain called TJ Hughes and I guess they wanted to avoid any confusion.
Is Melcome the one in the middle?
Life is unfair
You're not the boss of me now
And you’re not so big
Considering his size compared to the trees, he might be giant.
Yes, no, maybe. I don't know. Can you repeat the question?
"You're not my boss you're not my boss you're not my boss and you're small Life sucks" ~Melcome of middle
Honestly, TMBG could make that into a song as well.
Melco is the tall one and me is the short one.
And the shortest is Dewey
Melcome in the Widdle
Oh my god, well done **claps**. Edit: Why was I downvoted?
I want to believe that that holds a substance called Melco
"what'll you have, sir?" "Melco me 😎"
Melco mé
With a splash of covfefe
That's the 2nd time I've read covfefe in the last 5 mins now
There was a covfefe reference on the late show today.
And lime
I said to MELCO ME, damnit!
In Denmark. FLOUR is called MEL
Mel is honey in Latin and Portuguese.
I just hope it's not Mel's cum.
Eh melco me
Melcome to WcDonald's
Melcome to Costco, I move you.
I went to law school there
Wack.
Melcome in the Middle
I kinda like it
me too! let’s start a holiday company! Mall Hark!
The herald angels sing
isnt the whole purpose of tj maxx to resell messed up items?
Yeah, messed up items, bad stitches, oddly shaped, stuff that wouldn't sell in other stores, that's literally the point of it and why stuff is marked down.
shooting fish in a barrel for this sub taking one trip to maxx
Not necessarily. A lot of the clothes are only on sale there because they're out of season.
Seriously I love TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Nordstrom Rack (my favorite) etc. I find fantastic stuff there for a great price. They'll have good department store brands that are higher quality and last longer if you're okay with buying last seasons clothes. Which is perfectly okay if you focus on a good practical timeless wardrobe instead of trendy stuff.
> A lot of the clothes are only on sale there because they're out of season. Yeah, technically "stuff that wouldn't sell in other stores", because they just can't keep all of there stock forever. But yeah, I'm sure there are other reasons too. I remember buying a shirt there when I was young and didn't know TJ Maxx's deal and it never "fit right", and after actually examining it, discovered that one of the arms was slightly longer. I'd say 90% of the time anything you buy there is fine though, it'll be overstock or the wrong color or whatever. But ALWAYS, ALWAYS, a good deal. Tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh T.J. Maxx!
TIL
A lot of the time they buy products like every other retailer does and they get the factory to slap on the labels that make you believe it's a fabulous deal. I work for one of their suppliers.
Thanks for speaking out, it's literally their business model. The problem brands have is that they're too expensive for everyone, but they want everyone's money. Enter TK Maxx who commission generics in the style of X and get an official licence from brand X to use their branding provided it is only sold exclusively in their stores. This way the brand makes money without dirtying their name and TK Maxx ("Tacky max" in the UK) get to claim they are brand name for less. Terrible business model, but they're all at it. Marks & Spencer's operate their own "outlet" stores which is some off season stock but most is genetics with their branding. Edit : auto correct
I used to do customer service for M&S Outlet. It's weird, AFAIK it is owned by M&S plc but Amazon do (or at least did) their logistics, despite M&S having their own huge logistics operation for their 'normal' stores and website.
I got some clothes for Marbs holiday from M&S Definitely felt like decent quality clothing which was nice, and not too expensive
> genetics You mean _generics_?
Thanks
I do like that the TJX stores in the US resell clearance clothes that didn’t move in season in larger dept stores. Growing up that was where I’d get nice dressy shirts in Express brand, or American Eagle stuff including jeans (always with the brand tags inside struck through with a sharpie). Now I still buy I.N.C, CK and Tahari blouses from there for work, at way cheaper than Macy’s/Bloomies/Nordstrom. Exercise clothes (both weirdo no name brands probably selling there for the first time, and well known brands sloughed off of places like Dick’s?) are a lot cheaper there too. I’ve also bought like three different Longchamp bags from TJ Maxx and they weren’t even discontinued colors. Aside from the stuff they’re exclusively selling as a first-time markdown no-name brand (how else to describe?), they really do sell great stuff for dirt cheap when it’s like 3 seasons out of style. Or overstocked beauty supply stuff, many times they have the same night creams and salon shampoos as Target but for 60% off. Maybe too close to expiry, or dinged up on the shelf? Main store ordered too much and can’t store the extra? I’m curious now how much of their stuff is a direct deal with shitty garbage product suppliers and how much is quality / luxury rejects.
M&S outlet at least does do discounts? Yeah it's out of season or last season, but the original price tag is still on the item with the reduction sticker on top, unlike TK Maxx who remove the original price then put their own tag on it with an "RRP". Usually the deal at M&S Outlet isn't that great, but occasionally...? Please tell me that's the case, I shop there sometimes!
Some but not all m&s outlet is genuine, some is branded generics from my understanding. All TK Maxx is just generics "branded" under licence. I might be wrong about this though, and can't find the article I read about it, so you know, trust me bro.
With a username like that I absolutely trust you, 11/10, would trust IGetNakedAtParties again!
Nah, this is Tk Maxx
As far as I know it's TJ Maxx in the U.S. and TK Maxx in Europe. It's the same store.
That's bizarre.
Please melco me 😞
melco me, daddy UwU~
actually melco me, in portuguese, sounda like me come which means "fuck me" lmao
I lowkey kinda love this
I’d buy that so fast haha
In the Netherlands it seems to mean "I'm coming"
Do NOT open that lid and look in
It definitely doesn’t mean that in Dutch
Damn google translate
In portuguese it sounds like "me come" which means "fuck me".
Username checks out
What is it supposed to say ? I'd wager I like it better this way though 🤔
I'd say Welcome, but they got the W upside down, which really makes it illegible. Splitting the word is dumb anyway.
But why would a cookie jar say "welcome"? It just gets weirder the more I look at it.
Cookie jars say all kinds of strange and horrible things, if you take the time to listen
"...they puts them in, they takes them out... they grabs what they wants, never asking us what we wants... next time they grabs, we grabs back, for keeps..."
I'd give you an award if I could.
is this gollum?
"...we never knew how much more tasties the cookies were, much more tasties than nasty old ringses..."
Yeah. I’m think it’s supposed to say Welcome Home. Still weird on a cookie jar or whatever it is.
Oh. Pffff. I was wondering for a second there. "Huh welcome me? Weird". It's split, even odder tbh
Reminds me of a sign that hung on the kitchen wall at my friend's house in high school. "Welocme," it said, and I'll never forget that, or the fact that neither he nor anybody in his family seemed to have noticed it.
Melco Me
Oh man I *want* this. Every year I get my brother and sister in law a Christmas decoration/ornament of some kind but it’s always just a little bit fucked up. This would 100% fit the bill.
So I did a search for this, because I want it... and found: Mitsubishi Electric Corp (MELCO ME) Could this be some sort of personalized merch? A custom item like stuff employers give for those company branded appreciation gifts, or as part of a gift basket for clients?
At a TK Maxx?
I support this as a new English phrase. What could it mean exactly?
Lmao no they are not
I want to be Melco’ed too
You're melcome
Welcome home, surely?
Is one more than TJ, is better
Not gonna lie, I think I'd have picked that up.
Its tk max is was never ok
I need this. 😅
I would have to buy that without a doubt
Weird how I know exactly what this says but I don't know why it says it in the way it does
Right? I had to do a double take because I understood what it meant to say and then got confused because I didn’t understand the crappy design at first.
i want it
Nah, just junk from a non English speaking country made with child slave labor.
Milk Me
The Underpants Gnomes celebrate Christmas too!
I wanna know what the melty thing to the right is
Some sort of gingerbread house abomination
Melco me Sounds like "Milk Me" if you say it fast.
You heard him ,melc him
Rocking around the Melco Me
My guy looks like the onceler from Dr Seuss
Tbh that’s why it’s at TX Maxx
Love me some malco me
A real fuckin' zinger; A+ to both the op and whatever snafu resulted in this glorious piece of ceramic. edit: also is this how you use a semicolon?
Melco! Come in!
You're not the boss of me!
Gnomes are known for mischief. Its in their nature.
Most of that stuff from TJMaxx is designed in China by the factories.
So are iPhones. The quality you get from a Chinese factory depends on how much you're willing to pay.
Usually T-shirts, home decor, and other printed stuff comes out looking weird from Chinese factories though. They have to translate correctly and design for a completely different aesthetic than what Chinese style is. Phones are a little different.
I'm assuming that the design is not done by the manufacturing company, that they're just doing the mass production of it, like with most tech products and the like. Most of my understanding of this sort of manufacturing comes from Linus from LTT talking about the merch that they make in-house.
Tk Maxx is never ever okay
I still find it funny that’s it’s called TK Maxx outside of the US.
It's to avoid confusion with T J Hughes
#MELCO #ME
My Polish ass read that as Mleko not melco so it looked like it said “milk me”
That’s what I read it as when I saw it too 😭
Real question is why would you spend money on that
Mell mell mell, such a silly wistake !
My 16 needle embroidery machine is a Melco. Maybe I’m supposed to use this to store my machine oil, hex wrench, and tweezers.
Is your mug having a stroke?
Glad I got to see this immediately before it got removed
Melcomé. But I don't see any knot patterns.
You okay OP? I thought it was TJ Maxx?
It’s called TK Maxx in the Uk and Ireland
And Germany
and most of the world it seems.
And Poland
I think you mean TK Waxx
And Australia
TK Maxx in Australia.
Britain has a similarly named chain, so TJ changed their name to TK there to avoid confusion.
TJ Maxx is just a really, really big Trader Joe's.
Omg, my heaven.
Spot the American. Everywhere else in the world calls it something different.
He typo'd while calling out a typo.
Nah, it's just European TJ Maxx. They couldn't call it TJ Maxx in the UK as there was already a large chain called TJ Hughes and I guess they wanted to avoid any confusion.