Tuesday Morning

After two attempted visits in three weeks, I give up. I was at the outlet mall doing some other shopping just before Christmas. It was 10:00 on a Saturday morning. Every other shop was open. But not Tuesday Morning — they don’t open until 11.
Then last week, I was at the outlet mall again and wanted to stop in. But they’re closed for over a week to do inventory.
Two strikes and I give up. I’ve been able to find some cool things there before, but I feel like I just can’t count on them.

HOW THE CONCEPT WORKS: Tuesday Morning is a national retailer operating a chain of about 800 stores specializing in closeout merchandise. The company’s PR will say «upscale merchandise» but there are as many lower quality items as premium quality ones and with a lot of stuff in between the low and high.
Merchandise can range from «junk» to designer lamps, top quality framed large scale mirrors, hand woven area rugs and specialty foods like high end olive oil. All of these are substantial savings of 50% or even more off their retail price. Tuesday Morning is also a good place to find seasonal decorating items in season (as opposed to off season close outs) at bargain prices.
THE BEST PART: The best bargains to be found in Tuesday Morning are for high end, high thread count bed linens — 800 and 1000 thread count cotton sheet sets… top, bottom and two cases, in King sizes have been available for as little as $ 60 and $ 80 respectively. Also, Tuesday Morning is good source if you’re looking for harder to find California (Western) King sheet sets. The drawback is that you need to be willing to settle, much of the time, for pretty basic colors, like ecru or white, or pretty «out there» colors like lavender or seafoam.
When I was in Scottsdale a few months ago, a tip about Tuesday Morning as a source of killer deals on high quality bed linens was even published in a «Design Insiders Guide». Aren’t we «mere mortals» smart to have figured that our ourselves by sharing it through Unilocal!:-)
BEND STORE: Like most of the Tuesday Morning stores, the Bend store is located in a «lower rent» retail location. This one is in the Outlet Mall which is a BIG step up from its former location in a decaying strip mall on Highway 97. So the advantage is the space itself if big and easy to shop in as a result, and parking is abundant in the Outlet Mall lot.