A FORMER TK Maxx TK Maxx worker has lifted the lid on what we've all be wanting to know for years - how to find all the best deals and prices in store. Staffer Emily Spridgens, 26, from Loughborough, now an NHS respiratory physiologist, spent nine years working at two different TK Maxx shops from the age of 16. “Working at TK Maxx was amazing,” she says.
"I started work at 16 as a Christmas temp and worked part time through university.” Here, she lifts the lid on how to bag the best and biggest bargains at TK Maxx and how to tell when a big clearance is on its way. “Everyday except Sunday the stores received deliveries of products at 6am.
“Between 10 and 11 am we started labelling and putting the new stock on the shelves.” Emily explains: “If you see staff with scamping machines, then you know the new stock is about to be laid out. “A scamping machine is a handheld device with a printer that looks a bit like a fat mobile phone.
” She says TK Maxx staff use the machine to print out the product’s label. “Red labels mean a product has been marked down. “A yellow label is a customer’s ‘Holy Grail’ – it’s the biggest bargain because it’s a final clearance price and that could be as low as 20p.
” “Each label has the week number the product first came into store.” Emily reveals that's a key thing to remember “Six weeks after an item first arrives in a store it then gets discounted by almost a third or 30 per cent. “The discounting of older.
