I found a designer label for less at TK Maxx and so we headed to the cashier.
It didn’t take long to settle into the queue and Sarah started to deliberate over whether she should go back for that purple top or not.
Before she could decide whether she should or should not, another cashier arrived and we were called to her counter. Next Please!
By the time we walked round Sarah had forgotten completely about the top. If service had been slower, I’m sure she would have gone back for it.
January 24, 2007 at 2:28 pm
waaaaait… in the UK, you call them TK Maxx? But they’re TJ Maxx in the US… what’s so different about them that they require being separated by one letter?
by the way, I really owe you a picture of the queue at the Trader Joe’s grocery store here in NYC. It’s so epic I once actually saw a lady lose her mind.
January 24, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Hello Ann. Yes, they’re called TK Maxx over here. We also have TJ Hughes, which is a similar kind of shop but has far more products than clothes, whereas TK Maxx is mostly clothes. Is TJ Maxx an amalgamation of the two?
I would love a picture of the queue at Trader Joe’s. In fact, I would love to hear more about the lady who lost her mind.
February 16, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I’ll do my best to get that picture of the Trader Joe’s queue this weekend. I’m going to brave it if only for the frozen pizzas.
As to the lady that lost her mind, she was running through the store screaming, “Are you all f*cking mad? Can’t you set that this place sucks?!!? Are you all sheep, willing to stand in line for some cheap f*cking food? God, you’re all a**holes, f*cking a**holes, I hate this f*cking store, I wish I could blow this f*cking store up!!” and then she got in line and waited to buy her frozen food too.
There’s no escaping the magic of Trader Joes.
TJ Maxx does in fact sound like an amalgamation of the two stores. So odd.
And finally, I thought you’d appreciate this: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/arts/television/16chea.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
July 11, 2007 at 9:38 pm
I have a friend who works at TK Maxx and she said that the reason they’re called TK Maxx and not TJ Maxx is because when they came to the UK there was TJ Hughes, which is a lot more moderate and they didn’t want anyone confusing the two. So they picked the next letter in the alphabet. It’s that simple.