Overheard at the haircut place

[spatch]

MOTHER (paying for haircuts): Now once we're done here, we'll go to TJs and get you a new bikini.
DAUGHTER: Oh my god, no! Don't tell me they started selling bikinis now.
MOTHER: What do you mean? They always have.
DAUGHTER: ...oh, you're talking about TJ Maxx! I thought you meant Trader Joe's and was thinking what a horrible place that would be to buy swimsuits.





...only in Boston.

Comments

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

i don't get the humor in this. is there something wrong with my brain? and why is it only in boston? aren't these both franchises? oh god help me

[ron_newman]

TJ Maxx is local to Boston, or at least used to be, as it started here.

[genarti]

Is it? I remember them from growing up in Ohio, back in the early 90s or so. I don't think of it as Boston-local at all, though it may well be a more-or-less-Eastern thing.

[ron_newman]

It emerged from the ruins of Framingham-based Zayre Corporation. BJ's Wholesale Club was another Zayre offshoot.

[genarti]

Huh. Fair enough!

I think it spread a fair amount, though -- as I say, I remember it from Cincinnati, so I don't think of it as a particularly Bostonian chain -- but still, today I have learned something.

[dskasak.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Zayre. I suppose I have to give a begrudging amount of respect for a department store that made me feel more suicidal than being inside Wal-Mart (or Venture, for that matter).

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

ah