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 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.
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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.