T J Hughes (Shop)

Ok I do go in this shop in my city centre quite a lot. Purely cos they have stairs and a lift and its situated in a shopping centre where other than use the stairs in this shop I would be forced to use an escalator and I cant, cos I'm terrified! My mum has been shopping in this store for years and used to insist in dragging me in simply cos they sell sloggi knickers at a great price! So in honour of her I still nip in, its a habit lol So let me tell you about my store.... Its fairly large and light, spread across 3 floors, quite well laid out. Lifts, escalators and stairs and adequate ... more

T J Hughes is labelled as a discount department store and that would be an accurate description in my experience. I have visited three stores to date (Kettering, Doncaster and Coventry) and they have all been more a less the same in appearance and the stock that they sell. T J's as they are often called originated in Liverpool and have 37 stores at the moment concentrated in Merseyside, Lancashire, Yorkshire and the West Midlands so if you live in the South of the country you'd be forgiven for never having heard of them. They have had financial troubles and been subject to a takeover by JJB ... more

TJ Hughes is, according to its website, THE big discount department store. And who am I to argue with that summary? There are currently 50 TJ Hughes stores across the UK and they're well worth a visit if you're looking for premium brands at up to 70% off the RRP. I've visited a few branches of TJ Hughes over the years and the products stocked and the layouts are usually very similar. Now, whilst technically it is a department store, don't expect a beauty department with ladies in white dresses squirting perfume as you walk past. Similarly, the electrical department isn't staffed by men in ... more

I thought for a long time about how I could follow the prize-winning Primark review. Should I really attempt to write another op on a shop (ooh, a rhyme!) since that last one was, quite obviously, beginners luck. Then it struck me, it was probably best to continue my string of 'cheap shops with bad reputations' and get myself a reputation. So I decided to do another op exposing somewhere that most of us consider a hangout for the local Saga contingent. TJ Hughes is publicised as a 'bargain department store', and the most well-known one is the Liverpool store. I believe that was the first, but ... more

This review is on that great old British shop, I hate to admit known only as TJ Hughes. This only arrived in Plymouth only about 2 years ago, in the shop that was once occupied by Littlewoods. I got a new mobile telephone in there at the start of this week (on Sunday), and on telling people this in work on the Monady I was asked if I was awakening my inner Chav - I won't say any more about this. On entering the shop, I was greeted by a mass of cheap deals. I say cheap, but I do in fact mean even cheaper as for those of you don't admit to shopping in there like me you will know that Hughes (as ... more