TK Maxx

A shop for bargain hunters, a bit like charity shops. You can get some amazing high quality items, esp. clothes if you have time to browse through and to come often. Some people dress only in TK Maxx and have designer clothes for a fraction of the price. We buy footwear only there. Generally, footwear section is our favourite. Yes, it can be a hit and miss, but it’s up to you to make it an all time hit, as long as you have some time and patience to thrawl through the neat rows of clothes (some lovely shoppers leave clothes on the floor but it’s quickly recctified.
I went to TK Maxx brances in different cities, and like Brodmead one the most. Recently it expanded which shows that it’s doing well, even in the recession (or are we not in the recession anymore? Maybe, only offically). You can also buy lovely chocolate boxes or homeware (beautiful clocks, mirrors, etc) there if you need a last minute high quality present. Also, look for price reductions which are real bargains. It’ll defnintely be one of the first shops I’ll visit on a Boxing day. Highly recommend.
The only tip for TX Maxx is to invest into more security cameras. I have seen so many empty cosmetic and perfume boxes with tags on with the actual item stolen. Once I saw old pair of shoes on the shelf which meant that the shopper walked out in a brand new one. Quite a lot of theft there, and rightly so. High quality items and not enough security. But, hey ho, if that suits them, then it’s fine with me.

Random but true, this brand is called TJ Maxx in the US. That’s a pointless fact that you didn’t need to know but I thought I’d try to tell you something you don’t already know about this fantastic shop.
Since the Mall revamp a couple of years ago the store is a lot easier to navigate, with larger departments and even more discounted designer good than before. While I do find rummaging through all the rails a bit of a chore (you have to be in the right mood to do this) I do love perusing the shoes. Twice before I’ve found Converse hi-​tips for £16 which is practically half price!
Head upstairs and you’ll also find some great items for the home, including cushions, wall art and so great kitchen accessories. If you’re tired or stressed then leave this store for another day — you need to have plenty of time and patience if you’re going to get the most out of this shop.

TK Maxx is the most ingenuous idea. Take expensive stock from last years range buy it off the big labels, then sell it on at a profit. It is the type of thing that i spend hours trying to come up with, but as yet i have not had my moment of revelation.
Yet i am never able to find anything that i really want, which is why i usually find myself in here before a fancy dress party.
They have everything in here from boxer shorts to plates always worth a pop in!

I have wasted a lot of lunch hours in here rummaging often fruitlessly. I am not a great one for spotting clothes when they are rammed onto racks and you have to sift through the dross. However, whenever I have had a friend to guide me through I have come out with some incredible bargains. And my sister-​in-​law got me an amazing handbag from here which remains a staple in my wardrobe years later.
Designer lines sit side by side with more average brands but you can get fantastic coats, suits and jeans here if you are prepared to put in the time. There’s also a great stand with cut-​price designer beauty products and they often have some real gems.

At Christmas I bought a christmas wreath in here and the shop assistant was friendly and chatty and kept complimenting my bells, in retrospect, I’m not sure if he wasn’t been a cheeky flirt but I came out smiling anyhow!
I’ve had to return shoes here which fell apart after 2 wears and they were taken back without a quibble. I immediately went and spent my refund money and more on top of it.
Generally the quality of the clothes here is excellent. You can find beautiful quality designer pieces at a fraction of the price. I don’t care about high fashion and you do have to do a bit a sift through but you can be pretty sure that you can find something different that not everybody else is wearing. I’ve found some gorgeous mens shirts here for gifts, nice christmas present stocking fillers. It sometimes stocks skull candy headphones and it stocks some of the beautiful Portmeiron Botanic Garden delpware collection — I am so in love with the Portmeiron butter dish and have my fingers crossed it will turn up here.
A great place to shop, you lose track of time sifting through stuff in here.

I’ve never been a massive fan of shopping as a social activity. I’d much rather spend my lunch break chatting with colleagues over an ice cold cider or lounging about in the park with the newspaper than traipsing through the shops — but TK Maxx is the exception to the rule. In fact, if ever I overran my rare hour-​long lunch break it was probably due to spending way too long bargain hunting in the designer jumble sale that is TK Maxx. This one is conveniently placed near the exit to the bridge into Castle Park, meaning I inevitably walked past it on my way to and from to town. The sale rail is one of the best I’ve seen in a TK Maxxs — just head to the mis-​match of clothes at the back of the store. I often pick up gorgeous dresses for less than a tenner. The shoe section is a bit of a find too, with Rocket Dog boots for sale, in winter, for about £35−40. Complete and utter bargain.

TK Maxx is quite an unusual retailer insofar as they don’t seem to have any care or thought to either the presentation of their shop or the wellbeing of the products they have on offer. Items are strewn all over the floor all of the time, by what I assume is the customers, but I went in there early one morning and it was a mess even then, so maybe it’s some sort of weird company policy that all stores must look like a jumble sale at all times.
The popularity of this place is solely reliant on its bargain basement prices. Predominantly selling clothes, they also do home and kitchenware good and you really can find some true gems here if you can be bothered to sift through the mess.

Hooray, designer brands (that I’ve rarely heard of) for low prices! If you prepared to spend a couple of hours rummaging, you can find some brilliant goodies. I particularly like the shoe section, as they’re all laid out in size order, shoes and sports shoes, and you can normally find something quite original for not too much — quite a few of my favourite shoes come from TK Maxx.
Also have a good look around the home section, you can find all sorts of weird and wonderful ornaments. If you have the time to invest, you can find anything. TK Maxx Bristol like the rest, is simply brilliant.

Well, I like to consider myself a person with more style than money. As such a person, TK Maxx is indispensable to me. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I am in fact all that stylish, but I do like to go and have a sift round TK Maxx anyway. The chains approach is to take brand names clothes, pile ‘em high and sell them a bit cheaper than the RRP. This means you can find some real gems here but it does take a fair bit of searching of a little luck to manage it.
The Bristol TK Maxx differs only in being slightly more Bristolian. The staff are friendly and usually not to be found. You’ll here a request for all staff to go to the checkout once, twice, then four more times before the person on the till gives up. John Lewis this is not. I love TK Maxx nonetheless, bringing decent fashion slightly more within the reach of us without too much money by making a slightly stressful game of going shopping.

This is quite a good branch of TK Maxx because it’s never crazy busy and its quite tidy.
They have some good labels at this branch such as Fred Perry, diesel, Marc Jacobs, C by Chloe and Ollie & Nic. You just have to be willing to search. There is more women’s wear than men’s and a good selection of shoes for both sexes. The home ware section is nice too.
You can be sure to find a bargain!

Ok, so it’s hard work and quite unsatisfying most of the time to trawl through all the gubbins in this shop. But! This is one of the best TK Maxes I’ve ever been to. I have found a pair of D and G shoes here for £15 once. They are so amazing! A trip to Selfridge’s taught me the same pair of shoes would have set me back about £450 (okay, they would not have set me back so much, because I would not have bought them at that price). I have been very lucky with handbags here too and a pair of beautiful Charles Jourdan ankle boots cost me £7.50. If you are good at spotting quality, then you may well find something fabulous here!

This shop is pretty much hit and miss. It’s basically like a jumble sale, but selling new things. There is a little bit of everything in hereclothes, cosmetics, housey stuff, shoes etc. some known brand names and some not. You can catch some real bargains in here if you can be bothered with stepping over mess and sorting through the rubbish to find something good (and don’t mind being having jokes made at your expense fif a mate of yours sees you walking out of there!)
Obviously it’s also the kind of place you have to buy something on the spot, or you’ll never find it again.