TJ Maxx / TK Maxx

[channy3232]

Just a random thought going through my bored head today. I heard someone on here mention TK Maxx. Over here, we have TJ Maxx. I looked it up and it's the same company. I figured it was. But I wonder why they called them different names! You would think it would be cheaper to make them the same. They could use the same signs etc. Just one of those silly things I was thinking about today. Lol

 

[special_kala]

lol how odd

 

[Sophie1205]

That is odd yeah! Wonder why they did that?? x

 

[Tegans Mama]

Lol strange

 

[Pyrrhic]

yep, and it confused the crap out of me when I moved here from the states

 

[lfernie]

Yeah I noticed when I was in America last year, why bother changing one letter?

 

[Erised]

According to Wikipedia:

The first T.K. Maxx opened in Bristol in 1994.[2] T.K. Maxx's United States parent company, T.J. Maxx, adopted the name T.K. Maxx to avoid confusion with the existing but separate discount chain T J Hughes

 

[nightkd]

According to Wikipedia:

The first T.K. Maxx opened in Bristol in 1994.[2] T.K. Maxx's United States parent company, T.J. Maxx, adopted the name T.K. Maxx to avoid confusion with the existing but separate discount chain T J Hughes

Wow, that's pretty dull...I thought it might have some exciting reasoning behind it!!

DH and I have debates over this...I still call it T.K. Maxx over here in the US... I better not tell him that it belongs to the Americans!!!!

xx

 

[nicholatmn]

According to Wikipedia:

The first T.K. Maxx opened in Bristol in 1994.[2] T.K. Maxx's United States parent company, T.J. Maxx, adopted the name T.K. Maxx to avoid confusion with the existing but separate discount chain T J Hughes

Wow, that's pretty dull...I thought it might have some exciting reasoning behind it!!

DH and I have debates over this...I still call it T.K. Maxx over here in the US... I better not tell him that it belongs to the Americans!!!!

xx

He'll see it when he logs in!

 

[Justme]

Ooo yeah thats weird,I initially thought of TK Maxx and TJ Hughes,never knew it was TJ Maxx in th US x