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AIBU?

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Original poster

to love TKMAXX

42 replies

NorthernLurker · 08/08/2009 18:56

Popped in today and came out with
shoes for all my girls, a Janet Reger nightie for me and an ecopotty!

Could have come home with some Le Creuseut stoneware too - but I was very restrained.

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joliejolie · 08/08/2009 19:44

I you at Brent Cross bluebump?
That car park is an absolute nightmare!

wuglet · 08/08/2009 19:50

I loveitloveitloveit!
Buy nearly all the DCs clothing from there.

Have just bought a very cool BA Baraccas (how do you spell that?) - anyway a Mr T t-shirt for my nephew that says "I pity the fool!"

bluebump · 08/08/2009 19:58

No, Exeter joliejolie! They sound as bad as each other then!

YesImSinister · 08/08/2009 20:09

Flight - I was disussing your hat experience and my mum told me that a similar thing happened to her with one of her scarves. She lost it, spent the next day retracing her steps to try to find it and found it labelled up for sale in TK Maxx! (She was perusing the scarf section for a replacement one - had been in different part of TK Maxx when she must have dropped it the day before)

FlightHattendant · 08/08/2009 20:13

Ah...this is more common than we thought. I sense a conspiracy

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NorthernLurker · 08/08/2009 20:14

Well I certainly hope my ecopotty was new not lost!

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PrammyMammy · 08/08/2009 20:54

i love tkmaxx when i don't have a buggy in town, you can't move in it for clothe everywhere, but there are many a bargain to be found.

troutpout · 08/08/2009 20:55

yanbu

PeachyLaPeche · 08/08/2009 21:01

I needed a lasgne dish in the week, for the price of a Wilkinsons special i got a Denby one down from £47.

My first TK purchase, not my last I reckon

zipzap · 08/08/2009 23:50

I spend way too much time - and money! - in TK Maxx. ALthough I guess the other way of thinking about it is how much I have saved . Think I managed to do most of my xmas shopping in there (supplemented by a few books from the Book People) - I only ended up paying full price for a single present (a mickey mouse for my ds2 who was 8 months old and got so excited when he saw him on tv, was the only thing I never spotted at tk maxx).

And the new one in MK is opening tomorrow I think - although it could be at the end of the week and I have no idea what is happening to the old one, if it is going to close or stay open.

Am dreading it closing to be honest as the new one will be in the shopping centre and thus lots of people will be able to drop in and pick stuff up whereas the old one you need to go to deliberately. so seems to have ore stuff n somehow... It is a bit of a jumble sale but being able to go during the week rather than the weekend helps, as does being able to go on a regular basis and getting a feel for it. Must admit that I tend to spend less time looking at clothes there now I have put on so much weight and it tends to be the clothes that feel the most jumble-sale-y IYSWIM!

Sunfleurs · 09/08/2009 10:22

Its ok. Great for toys. Find the odd bargain in kitchen stuff and got all dd's gro-bags from there, amazingly cheap for those.

However where my Mum lives though it is full of Bench stuff and every other person on the street is wearing Bench Jeans or a Bench T-shirt so you know they got it from there. Is like a uniform.

notcitrus · 09/08/2009 10:31

They vary. Better for getting a better quality item for the same price as a less-good one, than for bargains per se. Got nice grobags there.

What I love is for clothes shopping, I know I need a pair of smart trousers, I can go to the smart trousers section, go to my size, and see if they have anything worth trying or not. Instead of a dept store where I have to trail round 40 'boutiques' for two hours.

The 'cheap' luxury food stuffs tend not to be that great, though.

FlightHattendant · 09/08/2009 11:54

Does anyone know where the stuff comes from though? I am a bit worried about eh kartma aspect, have to reseacrh it slightly I suppose...is it just catalogue returns? Who is losing out so we get these bargains?

FlightHattendant · 09/08/2009 11:55

oops connection

joliejolie · 09/08/2009 12:02

I think a lot of there stuff comes from America. Probably seconds, catalogue returns and stuff that couldn't be shifted in the sales.
They have so many brands that are popular in the States and loads of it has the American size and price tag. I was looking at clothes for my son and all the sizes said 4T, which is a US size. And I mistakenly bought a size 14 top which was huge (again, US sizes).

FlightHattendant · 09/08/2009 12:05

Ah. Well in that case I shan't worry too much

I thought some of the sizing was European etc.

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