Ok, so I wrote the review below a few days ago based on previous knowledge. I'll leave it there, as it was my opinion at the time, but I'm going to add an edit at the bottom
Doncaster TK Maxx is one of the better ones. I think the management there are quite strict because the staff always seem to be hardworking, and the place is quite tidy.
It's in the retail park on Wheatley Hall Road so there's plenty of free parking although it does get busy at weekends. They've recently improved the access/exits to try and cut down on congestion - last Saturday before Christmas will show whether or not it has worked!
The store has an excellent range of designer goods at unbelievable prices, as do all TKMs but this one makes it a little easier to find what you're looking for as it is a little tidier.
Watch out for the returns policy - max 14 days and you MUST have a receipt or you're stuffed.
EDIT: I was in this TK Maxx yesterday and it was absolutely appalling. The place was a complete and utter tip - I don't mean a usual TK Maxx jumble-sale style tip, I mean an absolute earthquake struck tip. You could hardly get the trolley through the aisles, especially in the handbags, toys and menswear.
There were only 2 tills open with about 6 people in the queue at each, and each waiting for a price for an item (not surprising as there were LOADS of things without prices in the shop, and no visible staff on the shopfloor). I was told to go to the service desk to pay, but when I got there it was unmanned. When someone eventually arrived, she had the most un-customer-focussed attitude I've come across since I'd been in TK Maxx Cheadle (don't start me on that one!), and was totally unfriendly.
I had two items without prices among my pickings. The first was a wooly hat that I'd picked out of a heap of rubble in the menswear clearance section. She sent someone off to find a price while I waitedand waitedand waited. Eventually this person reappeared and said they couldn't find anything similar. So I was told there wasn't a price available. She said she'd have to phone round all the other stores until she could find one the same because we can't guess, you know. Lol. She gave me a red pen and a red piece of paper off the till roll to write my phone number on - great idea. I used my own black pen, but haven't had the call about the price. Perhaps she's still ringing around
The second item was a little baby book which I'd picked up off the floor in the mess that was the toy department. Now, we're talking about a book with half a dozen cardboard pages, about 3 square, with a little bit of rubber at the top like a teether. Perhaps a quid or two, maybe double that if you bought it in a posh shop. Mrs Super-service decided it must be part of a set but duly despatched her trusty sidekick to get a price. About 10 minutes later, the phone rang. She came back and said that the book was £9.99!!! I said that I thought they couldn't make it up, and she said they'd found another the same. Complete and utter ballax. It wasn't a 'designer' name, it was a little book with pictures and ABCs in it, for babies. I asked her if I could see the other book with the price on it, but she declined and made some carp excuse about the girl being on a break now. Hmmm, surprising. Or maybe it was because she was talking out of her backside.
So, excuse the rant, but beware that the service in Doncaster has gone downhill big-time. read more
