TJ Maxx - Fashion Company Profile

Company Profile

TJ Maxx is a retailer, so this page carries no marketplace shop box; the hunt happens in its stores and at the site linked above. Its record below - 821 stores at the end of 2006, 30,000 square feet apiece - understates today's chain by several hundred stores, and its respelled sibling TK Maxx, profiled in this letter, carries the same format across Europe and Australia. The photograph kept with this profile shows the chain as its shoppers know it.

At the end of 2006 T.J. Maxx operated 821 stores, with an average store size of approximately 30,000 square feet, and the filing saw 'further growth opportunities in the U.S., including new stores and expanding successful merchandise categories.' The chain sits inside TJX's Marmaxx division alongside Marshalls - the pairing that invented the modern American off-price format, in which a rapidly changing, opportunistically bought assortment makes every visit a treasure hunt.

The First Store Was in Auburn, Massachusetts

The chain's deeper history runs through Zayre, the discount department store group that had tried and failed to buy Marshalls and instead hired Marshalls' head of merchandising, Bernard Cammarata, to build a rival. The first TJ Maxx stores opened in 1977 in Auburn and Worcester, Massachusetts. When Zayre reorganized at the end of the 1980s, its off-price chains became The TJX Companies - with TJ Maxx as the flagship they still are.

Today TJ Maxx is the largest off-price apparel chain in the United States, with well over 1,300 stores, and its name - respelled TK Maxx to avoid confusion with a British retailer - fronts TJX's European and Australian business as well. This page carries no shop box: TJ Maxx is a retailer, and the treasure hunt only works in its own stores and at tjmaxx.com.

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