People Ponder the Pure Weirdness of the TJ Maxx Food Section

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jan 11, 2023 3:00 PM EST

I don't know about you, but I have a pretty fixed idea of the places I buy food from. The grocery store is obviously top of the list, followed by your average 7/11-style businesses. If I'm treating myself, I'll go to a restaurant or café, and I might go to some kind of fancy chocolate shop if I'm getting a gift. There are many establishments at which we can buy consumable products, but one of the strangest out there has to be TJ Maxx. Why, among the no name designer clothes and jazzy homewares, do they sell all of that food?

This was a question posed on TikTok recently, with one user claiming that their food aisle gave them the heebie-jeebies. This led to an extensive debate about being presented with jellybeans and weird pasta shapes, with a range of opinions on display. While many may have consumed TJ Maxx food and lived to tell the tale, I don't think I'm going to be adding them to my grocery shop any time soon. 

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    Font - rose x tk maxx is literally so random
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    Gesture - The TJMAXX is like the pantry of a home, just got everything and nothing
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    Font - Lillian You don't know what you're missing
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    Font - f the meat and cheese?!? foul
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    Font - Hey Sparky I refuse to believe anyone buys this stuff.... hope
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    Smile - amystevely tk maxx in general, like what are 90% of the brands they're selling??
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    Smile - Mars if you don't hunt down italian pasta, coffee beans and macarons there you do not know true thrills
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    Rectangle - playingbutsaying they're definitely ... a store.
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    Font - quinn / liminal <3 ok but the coffee syrups? literally the best thing ever
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    Font - joe i work at homegoods! it's safe i promise
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    Font - A I have the feeling that everything expired last century every time I walk past it
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    Font - Felassanis nah but I've bought like the best pasta and desserts from Tk Maxx it's GREAY
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    Font - gy why is there always SO MUCH SALT
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    Human body - Sam I used to work at TJ Maxx and unfortunately people would buy the food there all of the time
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    Hair - eva I was starving once so bought a box of their muffins n the taste was like no other. never again.
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    Organism - bunnieacid As a TJ employee I recommend against eating any of the rice/pasta. Frequently rats chew them open while they sit in boxes at the warehouse but are- 2022-12-28 Reply 40 P bunnieacid still put out to be sold anyways. It's gross, really.
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