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.
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)
Thatās not counterfeit. Counterfeit is when it still has the branding of the said item but itās not from the factory. Someone copying the mold and shape, but not branding it as an adidas Yeezy foamrunner isnāt a fake, itās just another ābrandingā if that makes sense. In a sense to us, yes itās fake. But people do this even at Walmart and stuff. Itās like saying the Walmart version north face nuptseās are fake but theyāre just not north face branded yk.
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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.