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# T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/t-j-maxx-and-homegoods-almaden-expy-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/t-j-maxx-and-homegoods-almaden-expy-san-jose-ca

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## In short

T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods is a department store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Department store |
| Address | 5353 Almaden Expy, San Jose, CA 95118, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM |
| Phone | (408) 265-3707 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 749 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 5353 Almaden Expy, San Jose, CA 95118, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Retail chain featuring stylish brand-name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 265-3707 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Accessory sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Apparel sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Housewares sales | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Shoe sales | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://tjmaxx.tjx.com/store/index.jsp | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


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## Visiting T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods

Address: 5353 Almaden Expy, San Jose, CA 95118, USA. Phone: (408) 265-3707. Hours: Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Retail chain featuring stylish brand-name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares."


### When to go

Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Boudin SF | Bakery | 1 min walk |
| Yopop | Dessert shop | 1 min walk |
| TleafGreen | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Blossom Hill & Almaden Plaza | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Blossom Hill & Plaza | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Antojitos Panzas Verdes | Mexican restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 749 reviews: Google 749. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

The store offers a vast selection of affordable items but suffers from poor customer service and disorganized shopping conditions. (AI guess, from 749 reviews.)


### What people like

- Wide selection of home decor
- Affordable prices
- Variety of clothing options


### What people do not like

- Rude and unhelpful staff
- Uncomfortable security monitoring
- Confusing return policies
- Messy store environment


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## Questions people ask


### What do shoppers most often mention buying here?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### best department store in San Jose


### opening hours at T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods in San Jose, what are they these days?


### torn between T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods and Nordstrom?


### where exactly is T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods?


### Coffee near T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods on Almaden Expy?


### the good stuff about the shop, what is it?


### cheaper than the shop in San Jose without it being sketchy?


### anything new from T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods lately?


### Any membership pricing at T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods?


### are prices in San Jose higher than everywhere else


### do I need to fill anything in beforehand


### T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods, any chance to get in this week?


### is there a day here that is not slammed


## The AI Score: 26 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose department stores run 25 to 45. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods scores 26, below the San Jose average of 30. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 69 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 82 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 21 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a department store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods | LocalBusiness | #business | https://tjmaxx.tjx.com/store/index.jsp | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City T.J. Maxx & HomeGoods is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the department stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best department stores in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/department-store
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJkczaSNwzjoARYkRh01LKo6k (accessed Sep 14, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 14, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)