are prices in San Mateo higher than everywhere else
Question · by garden_gate_wren_59 · Member since Aug 2026 · 2 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
Department store in San Mateo, CA
4.0 · 571 reviewsOpens today at 9:30 AMOpens today at 9:30 AM
Retail chain featuring stylish brand-name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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Updated Sep 14, 2026Last activity 1 month ago, a question from garden_gate_wren_59.
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What T.J. Maxx offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Wednesday or Friday, before 11 AM.
Busiest Friday and Saturday from 2 to 7 PM.
Concar Park is a park a 3 minute walk away. 7-Eleven, a convenience store, is a 2 minute walk. The Pantry Family Restaurant - American & Filipino, a brunch restaurant, is a 3 minute walk.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 20, 2026.
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.
Closed now. Busiest Fri and Sat, 2 to 7 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about T.J. Maxx.
4.0from 571 reviews on Google
While T.J. Maxx offers a nostalgic shopping experience with a good clearance section, service issues and stock inconsistencies detract from customer satisfaction. Customers describe T.J. Maxx in San Mateo as a mixed experience, with some enjoying the nostalgic shopping atmosphere and clearance section, while others express frustration over poor customer service and long wait times at checkout. Specific complaints about employee behavior and stock issues contribute to a feeling of dissatisfaction.
Listed on 8 of the 21 directories AI reads.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
37 San Mateo avg
Signal and how much it countsT.J. Maxx
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
T.J. Maxx, as AI sees it. Blue signals help T.J. Maxx, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about T.J. Maxx. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Department stores in San Mateo, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.
Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
T.J. Maxx is a department store in San Mateo, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Department store |
| Address | 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM |
| Phone | (650) 349-9544 |
| Rating | 4.0 across 571 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Tuesday |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |
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 | 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, 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 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (650) 349-9544 | 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 |
Address: 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA. Phone: (650) 349-9544. Hours: Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Retail chain featuring stylish brand-name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares."
Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| S Grant St & Concar Dr | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| 7-Eleven | Convenience store | 2 min walk |
| The Pantry Family Restaurant - American & Filipino | Brunch restaurant | 3 min walk |
| Taquizas Mariscos Y Taqueria Ixpalino Sinaloa | Taco restaurant | 3 min walk |
| Concar Park | Park | 3 min walk |
| Ginniver St & 19th Ave | Bus stop | 3 min walk |
4.0 average across 571 reviews: Google 571. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)
While T.J. Maxx offers a nostalgic shopping experience with a good clearance section, service issues and stock inconsistencies detract from customer satisfaction. (AI guess, from 571 reviews.)
Listed on 8 of the 21 directories we checked.
| Directory | Listed |
|---|---|
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Listed | |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Listed |
| Yelp | Listed |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Mateo department stores run 26 to 44. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. T.J. Maxx scores 26, below the San Mateo average of 37. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | T.J. Maxx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 75 | 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 | 37 | 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
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| San Mateo, California | City | #city | City T.J. Maxx 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 |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the department stores in San Mateo, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# T.J. Maxx, San Mateo CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-mateo/t-j-maxx-san-mateo-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-mateo/t-j-maxx-san-mateo-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short T.J. Maxx is a department store in San Mateo, 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 | 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | | Phone | (650) 349-9544 | | Rating | 4.0 across 571 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 | 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, 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 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (650) 349-9544 | 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 | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting T.J. Maxx Address: 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA. Phone: (650) 349-9544. 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 Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | S Grant St & Concar Dr | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | 7-Eleven | Convenience store | 2 min walk | | The Pantry Family Restaurant - American & Filipino | Brunch restaurant | 3 min walk | | Taquizas Mariscos Y Taqueria Ixpalino Sinaloa | Taco restaurant | 3 min walk | | Concar Park | Park | 3 min walk | | Ginniver St & 19th Ave | Bus stop | 3 min walk | ## Reputation 4.0 average across 571 reviews: Google 571. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.) While T.J. Maxx offers a nostalgic shopping experience with a good clearance section, service issues and stock inconsistencies detract from customer satisfaction. (AI guess, from 571 reviews.) ### What people like - Clearance section - Great selection of trendy clothes - Friendly service from Mala ### What people do not like - Long checkout lines with few cashiers - Rude or unhelpful staff - Items missing or misrepresented ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Listed on 8 of the 21 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Angi | Not listed | | Apple Maps | Listed | | BBB | Not listed | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Brownbook | Not listed | | Chamber of Commerce | Listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | DexKnows | Not listed | | Facebook | Listed | | Foursquare | Not listed | | Hotfrog | Not listed | | Manta | Listed | | MapQuest | Listed | | MerchantCircle | Not listed | | Nextdoor | Listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yellow Pages | Listed | | Yelp | Listed | ## Questions people ask ### are prices in San Mateo higher than everywhere else ### best department store in San Mateo ### what time does T.J. Maxx in San Mateo actually open? ### Why do people rate the shop? ### is Nordstrom any better for Trendy clothing at affordable prices ### What do shoppers most often mention buying here? ### Busiest day at T.J. Maxx, anyone know? ### anything people actually moan about here? ### Do they post anywhere? ### where exactly is T.J. Maxx? ## The AI Score: 26 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Mateo department stores run 26 to 44. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. T.J. Maxx scores 26, below the San Mateo average of 37. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | T.J. Maxx | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 75 | 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 | 37 | 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T.J. Maxx | LocalBusiness | #business | https://tjmaxx.tjx.com/store/index.jsp | Subject of this page | | San Mateo, California | City | #city | | City T.J. Maxx 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 Mateo, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best department stores in San Mateo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-mateo/department-store - Best businesses in San Mateo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-mateo ### Nearby - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /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 ### 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:ChIJ6f4PoPGej4ARHcxWrISBPQI (accessed Sep 14, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Department stores in San Mateo, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>T.J. Maxx, San Mateo CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>T.J. Maxx is a department store in San Mateo, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Department store</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(650) 349-9544</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.0 across 571 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Tuesday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 14, 2026</td></tr>
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<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Retail chain featuring stylish brand-name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>T.J. Maxx</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(650) 349-9544</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>9:30 AM to 9:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Accessory sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Apparel sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Housewares sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Shoe sales</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://tjmaxx.tjx.com/store/index.jsp</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-t-j-maxx">
<h3>Visiting T.J. Maxx</h3>
<p>Address: 1850 S Grant St, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA. Phone: (650) 349-9544. Hours: Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Retail chain featuring stylish brand-name apparel, shoes & accessories, plus housewares."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>S Grant St & Concar Dr</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>7-Eleven</td><td>Convenience store</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>The Pantry Family Restaurant - American & Filipino</td><td>Brunch restaurant</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Taquizas Mariscos Y Taqueria Ixpalino Sinaloa</td><td>Taco restaurant</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Concar Park</td><td>Park</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ginniver St & 19th Ave</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>3 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.0 average across 571 reviews: Google 571. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)</p>
<p>While T.J. Maxx offers a nostalgic shopping experience with a good clearance section, service issues and stock inconsistencies detract from customer satisfaction. (AI guess, from 571 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clearance section</li>
<li>Great selection of trendy clothes</li>
<li>Friendly service from Mala</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Long checkout lines with few cashiers</li>
<li>Rude or unhelpful staff</li>
<li>Items missing or misrepresented</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Listed on 8 of the 21 directories we checked.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Directory</th><th scope="col">Listed</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Angi</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apple Maps</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>BBB</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Birdeye</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Brownbook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chamber of Commerce</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cylex</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>DexKnows</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Facebook</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Foursquare</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hotfrog</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Manta</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MapQuest</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MerchantCircle</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nextdoor</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Superpages</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thumbtack</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Trustpilot</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tupalo</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yellow Pages</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yelp</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>are prices in San Mateo higher than everywhere else</h4>
<h4>best department store in San Mateo</h4>
<h4>what time does T.J. Maxx in San Mateo actually open?</h4>
<h4>Why do people rate the shop?</h4>
<h4>is Nordstrom any better for Trendy clothing at affordable prices</h4>
<h4>What do shoppers most often mention buying here?</h4>
<h4>Busiest day at T.J. Maxx, anyone know?</h4>
<h4>anything people actually moan about here?</h4>
<h4>Do they post anywhere?</h4>
<h4>where exactly is T.J. Maxx?</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 26 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Mateo department stores run 26 to 44. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. T.J. Maxx scores 26, below the San Mateo average of 37. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">T.J. Maxx</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>0</td><td>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.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>75</td><td>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.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>69</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>82</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>37</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>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</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to T.J. Maxx</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>T.J. Maxx</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://tjmaxx.tjx.com/store/index.jsp</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Mateo, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City T.J. Maxx is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the department stores in San Mateo, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best department stores in San Mateo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-mateo/department-store</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Mateo: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-mateo</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ6f4PoPGej4ARHcxWrISBPQI (accessed Sep 14, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 12, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
</article>
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