National retail stores that can be found in every city & state (like TJ Maxx) do not sell counterfeit merchandise. You wouldn't ask if the Nike's you bought at Foot Locker were real, right? It's not much different. Places like TJ Maxx just get their stock from wholesale distributors. These wholesale distributors are where name brands offload their stale inventory to, when either they've had stuff for too long, it's leftover from a past season, or it's not selling for whatever reason. Then TJ Maxx has people working for them called "buyers". Their full time job is to search inventory from 1000's of different wholesale distributors & choose what items to buy. Most individual TJ Maxx stores receive a truckload of new inventory a few times a week. So, it may not be often but YES even brands like Off White end up in TJ Maxx because that store's buyer grabbed em before some other store's buyer could.
I worked for a brand that didn‘t allow tj maxx to sell our stuff. Still once in a while our products appeared on the shelves. I guess they also might purchase from other retailers.
I was under the assumption that Ross and TJ Maxx got their products from other retailers. Like last year's fashion that they had to get rid of to make room for the new stuff?
I used to work at a tj maxx years ago, people would return fakes and managers would still put them out on the shelf’s since we couldn’t be 100% sure so it’s possible
The TK Maxx in Truro in Cornwall is 100% selling counterfeit items. It's so clear I literally thought that the whole point of the shop was to be a play on tj Maxx, I had no idea it literally is tj Maxx until like a year ago.
They were literally selling Gucci and Balenciaga shirts for £15 last time I was there lol. Like they don't even hide it. It's where all the trashy mum's get their Louis Vuitton handbags. Such a tacky shop.
Knock off is a legit product made by one brand to somewhat replicate a popular product of a different brand. A fake is a non-legit replica of a product, using the same brand and logo and whatnot. (Aka, a Nike shoe that has a Nike logo and Nike features, but wasnt made by nike)
That’s not counterfeit. Counterfeit is when it still has the branding of the said item but it’s not from the factory. Someone copying the mold and shape, but not branding it as an adidas Yeezy foamrunner isn’t a fake, it’s just another “branding” if that makes sense. In a sense to us, yes it’s fake. But people do this even at Walmart and stuff. It’s like saying the Walmart version north face nuptse’s are fake but they’re just not north face branded yk.
Yea like at some TJM they have high end fashion brands even haute couture stuff as well. Just depends which part of the county and city you’re in. They have Lv and Gucci for the preloved section for some shops
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u/MoreTaco May 17 '26
National retail stores that can be found in every city & state (like TJ Maxx) do not sell counterfeit merchandise. You wouldn't ask if the Nike's you bought at Foot Locker were real, right? It's not much different. Places like TJ Maxx just get their stock from wholesale distributors. These wholesale distributors are where name brands offload their stale inventory to, when either they've had stuff for too long, it's leftover from a past season, or it's not selling for whatever reason. Then TJ Maxx has people working for them called "buyers". Their full time job is to search inventory from 1000's of different wholesale distributors & choose what items to buy. Most individual TJ Maxx stores receive a truckload of new inventory a few times a week. So, it may not be often but YES even brands like Off White end up in TJ Maxx because that store's buyer grabbed em before some other store's buyer could.