If TJ Maxx Home Goods store is Cinderella then this Boise Tuesday Morning store is the the ugly step-sister. It feels like one is sometimes playing shopping cart bumper cars in TJ Maxx Home Goods with other shoppers that include local interior designers cruising for good design items at value prices. But it feels like one could shoot a cannon off in the aisles of this Tuesday Morning and about 90% of the time not hit a living thing. That this location of discount, odd lots chain retailer Tuesday Morning is so little shopped is both inexplicable and understandable, all things considered. Not that one might make this a destination but if you're in the neighborhood it might be worth the pop in.
THE GOODS
There are good buys to be found here IF one knows what one is looking for and looking at for price point and quality. There is not the breadth of items to be found here as a TJ Maxx (a furniture piece or two here as opposed to many furniture options there) nor the depth of options within any given category (as example a handful of large framed mirrors or table lamps here as opposed to dozens of choices for each there).
But there are good buys for some things. For example, Tuesday Morning has a contract with high end, luxury linens company Peacock Alley to sell their discontinued lines and colors. Most stores in the Tuesday Morning chain get some of these to sell. Depending on demographics some stores get more or less of these. In the Tuesday Morning in my old stomping ground in Bend (OR) there were typically dozens of Peacock Alley items including sheets, blankets, pillows, duvets and bed covers. This Boise store had but couple of handfuls of Peacock Alley items. But if you're in the market and willing to go back each week to see what might come in.
They also have items here you might not find or find as many of at TJ Maxx. For example, they have multiple aisles of children's toys and "stuff". A very little girl today was excited to have found just the right lunchbox as her birthday gift. That children still recognize and use lunchboxes and can get excited over one in a pink princess motif made me smile in light of...well...everything.
They also have things like gift bags and wrap, "fat quarters" of fabric (quilting folk will know what those are), scrap booking and craft paper supplies, kitchen tools, area rugs, woven baskets, plant pots, glassware, patio items, coffee table books (very few and you need to know where to look), cookies and candy bars, trays in assorted sizes and materials and different brands of paper wrapped soaps that even if you don't want to use them look and smell lovely(vetiver, anyone?) tucked a glass bowl or assembled on a tray in a bathroom...and the list goes on.
Overall the quality of items here seem to trend middl to lower end.
THE SERVICE
The staff is super friendly and helpful and keep the store in good order and cleanliness. . They greet every customer with "Welcome in to the store!" and always ask at the end if you found all you were looking for. Very nice.
THE RESTOCK DAY
For this store trucks arrive on Tuesdays and merchandise is moved to floor by Wednesday they tell me. (Bend's staff reported deliveries at least twice a week.)
THE MUSIC
Seriously. I love the background music mix here. Today I got to sing along (well...almost) to Donovan and had to stop myself dancing along with Average White Band.
THIS N THAT:
1) PARKING: Private lot that always has spaces.
2) ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible parking in lot. Level in from walkway through door. All on one level. Ample aisle space to meet ADA clearances makes is easy for all shoppers to have good and equal access.
3) NEIGHBORS: Asian Cuisine, a very good little restaurant, is "around the corner" of this same strip mall. read more