Has your TK Maxx shot downhill?

[Supersimkin7]

Grumbling of SW4 here. TK, formerly the home of the odd very nice jersey and useful dress, has slumped - fast - into polyester hell, scuffed and sloppy, for only £70 a dirty garment.

Racks of tat, basikerly, in woeful nick. Same with you?

I know everything is polyester now but surely not so much the good brands - TK appear to have whacked the prices up too by a good 25 or 50 percent.

Is yours ok? Where can we go for those bargainous buys these days.

Midlands here and useless the clothing is awful and expensive i dont want to spend £99 on a cardigan i certainly dont want to spend it on half a cardigan with pulls and bobbles

I used to be able to buy water bottles from there but they are now more expensive than amazon or damaged i used to find gluten free foods in there too now there is none im surprised the store is still open tbh

Had a look for a dress today and it was all either weird, badly made, horrendously creased or horrific fabric choice.

I’ve noticed that the ones in central London have been really good recently with the Gold Label range. I used to think the London ones were quite poor.

My local is actually pretty decent, lots of Ralph, joules, Zara, gantt. My ds got some weekend offender, CK and Nike. It is expensive though but nowhere near like full price. I got a cable knit jumper tagged at £125 for £19 last week.

I used to enjoy looking for good stuff there, but now it's 99% tat and I can't be bothered. It's very depressing.

mine has started to stock korean skincare so i’m delighted

I have used several and find the ranges depend on area demographics. Loads of good stuff in one near me (affluent area) of you rummage. Got shoes, trainers, coats, ski gear, sports gear, t shirts and tops etc
Similar in one near small town I went to. PJs, loads good basic items
City centre one - rammed with cheap over priced stuff.
agree on dresses - all very odd stuff that clearly no one else can sell

Midlands here and mine is awful. Full of cheap 'designer' clothing which has never graced a store, only made for TKMaxx and you can tell, as it's poor quality with shiny fabric, is poorly constructed and is often blingy and looks cheap. I think the days of finding a genuine designer bargain are long gone.

Mine is great. Just came away today with a pair of sweaty betty running leggings for £13!!!!!

North West here and agree. Twenty years ago I remember finding fantastic quality, unusual clothing and footwear every time I went in. My two nearest are rubbish now. Occasionally I find some good stuff in the Gold Label section of the Liverpool store.

Yeah it is a shadow of its former self. The luggage used to be brilliant. Delsey, Mandarina Duck, Samsonite, Brics. Shite now. Only go in for toiletries and This Works candles.

I've never bothered with TK Maxx clothes. Endless rails of jumbled fussy patterns and slippery fabrics. It's overwhelming and puts me off browsing.

I like the selection of soaps /shower gels/body lotions. Also buy nice quality or interesting kitchen utensils/glassware/large plant pots. I've admired a few rugs but never bought one there.

That's it. Avoid the rest. In and out ASAP.

I haven’t been to ours for ages (there’s one in town plus another in an out of town shopping centre about 20 mins away) but both seemed very good last time I visited. I love all the toiletries & they have great handbags & really nice homewares.

My local one, awful as you describe. Used to be brilliant. Travel 10 miles across the county line, and there’s another which has such excellent stock every time I go. I’ve had amazing quality bargains in both the clothing/ footwear and the cosmetics section.

I really do think it seems to depend on local demographics. Our city centre one is grim cheap stuff. Other nearest has end of lines of a lot of good brands and I regularly get loads bargains

I never trusted their beauty make up or food.
i don’t know it could have come from
anywhere.

also as others said their stuff is half wrecked and broken a lot of the time. With reduced stickers saying because it’s broken you can have one pound off.

OP are you talking about the one near Clapham Junction specifically? If yes, then agreed, it used to have some nice stuff which has dissapeared completely.

USA here and ours have gone downhill too. The trifecta of Marshall’s Tjmaxx and Homegoods here (all same corporate ownership) is overstuffed, same old same old, and the idea of finding an actual overstock from an original high end vendor is nonexistent altho they still use the tag line…their overbuying is our good luck (that’s an absolute paraphrase but that’s the message) And anything you might want like glass storage containers or a cutting board or towels are stacked deep and high with little variety.
I never thought I would say it but I don’t even bother getting a cart now when I go in already knowing I won’t find enough to need a cart.

Shoes are very very cheap quality as are bras underwear and socks. And so many odd cheap home decor items now. Any trend like blue Ming style pots or William Morris fabric items is done to the extreme. I imagine a secret assembly line saying…Ming ware now in style and they start producing it in vast quantities.

With that said I have recently bought bombas socks there and l still find a rare find but that’s the exception. I thought it was just me…older…my house is “done” and I truly need almost nothing.

Yes!!! I am moaning about clapham Junction TK!! And the others!!!!

Junction ‘store’ is so full of elderly polyester tat it smells of petrol! (Poly is a petrol waste product). Undernotes of dust.

Gone are the days of your nice See by Chloe jacket in an admittedly interesting colour for £70. Or the properly good shoes for £50.00.

Balham - terrible, worse than the charity shops. Nothing bigger than size 8 for the over-40s. Even my stunning midlife friend who is tiny leaves empty handed.

Tooting - sigh. Massive shoe section but I’m not buying out of date Pumas for £50 when they’re £30 on Amazon.

The shelves at TKMaxx increasingly make me think of those hulking great container ships arriving from China with mountains of cheap, mass-produced junk - how much will go straight into landfill. It wasn’t so bad when there were more ‘end of line’ discounts from known brands, but my local (provincial, ie, unworthy of Gold Label glamour) store seems to stock random/pretend TK labels, or tacky Tiktok trend ripoffs. It all feels a bit grim. Any skincare/cosmetics I buy online from the website.

if I need houseplant pots, wine or beer glasses, vases, etc, I try to use local charity shops.

Yep used to be the home of many bountiful bargains . Alas no more . Even homeware decidedly sad .

It’s the only shop round here you think LANDFILL on entry.

I’m in mourning. Upside, I’ve just given all the 90s McQueen pieces I got for £29.99 in the, er, 90s to my nieces.

Options for replacement? Cheery china rat knife pot for £32.00. The rat is very merry, to be fair.

Going against the grain but our local one is great. I was in during the week and got a REN skincare set, a great little shirt and DH got some trainers cheaper than he had seen elsewhere. Looking at the clothes they had some really nice Kaffe tops which is a brand stocked in a local independent clothes shop. I like it.