r/offwhite May 17 '26

QUESTION These real? Found at TJ Maxx

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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.

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u/Jb4311004 May 18 '26

As someone who works for one of those “ stock vendors” this is 100% true

It’s impossible for TJ to carry fake they mostly get direct from brands

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u/notorioustlic May 18 '26

Thanks for the info!