The Best Times to Shop at Stores Like HomeGoods and T.J.Maxx — Shopping

If you're someone who likes to find a deal, stores like HomeGoods and T.J.Maxx are probably your favorites. With shelves full of deeply discounted name-brand merch — sometimes stacked so deep that you literally have to dig for the good stuff) — when you find something you love you've earned it.

But if you've ever faced the hordes that congregate there on rainy Saturday afternoons, you know that shopping at these places requires more than nerves of steel: You need a strategy.

I reached out to friends and family, a rep for the stores, and did some in-person research (some would call it "shopping") at various times during the week to check my local stores for foot traffic, status of the stock on the shelves, and the general mood of the staff.

A lot of sites will try to tell you that there's a single best day to shop at each specific store, but there's actually more to it than that. Here's my insight based on this consolidated data.

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