Where does the furniture sold at TJ Maxx come from?
Question:I swear I saw a Pottery Barn chair there for about $60 - it would have cost $300 at Pottery Barn. Anyone know for sure where the furniture at TJ Maxx (and Ross and Home Goods) comes from?
Answers:
TJ Maxx, Ross and other stores like them, buy salvaged goods from a wholesaler. You very likely did see that chair at Pottery Barn, most likely it was slightly damaged or returned for a similar reason and it was placed into their damage, unsellable merchandise category. The stores will also include unsold clearance merchandise. Many stores such as Target and other large retailers then put all of the merchandise that is still safe to use onto a pallet, shrink wrap it up and sell it to a salvage wholesaler who then auctions off entire lots of pallets to tjs and ross, Marshall's etc..
Most of the time you are getting a great deal with little or no risk, just remember to inspect goods at these types of stores carefully before you buy.
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I think the furniture comes from all over or all kinds of furniture stores. I bought two lamps from TJ Max and a year later saw the very same lamps at an Egyptian Museum store which sells furniture and artifacts. It reminds me of Marshalls who store gets all the name brand clothes which you see or buy at other fancy name brand stores which are quite expensive.
most of the furniture you find in stores here comes from small factories on the east coast states of north and south carolina and are made with cheap materials designed to look nice, but not last more than a few years. most wood is pine, stained to various looks and colors, with composition and fiber board for backs and linings of the drawers. if composition wood gets wet, it swells, and then crumbles. it's nothing more than sawdust and water soluble glue pressed into flat pieces and heat dried while under intense pressure.
real wood furniture is extremely expensive and is made of real wood, not sawdust and glue, and is made from various varieties of wood such as oak, mahogony, teak, apsen, redwood, poplar, walnut, pecan, cherry, and a number of others. depending on which wood is used, the price can reach several thousand dollars for a small table.
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