https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:38:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2616019 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 20:44:11 +0000 alphagam84 2616019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd rather change DD in the car, those changing tables are gross! I think it's pretty easy to change her in the car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615969 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 15:32:20 +0000 looch 2615969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Haha, me too. My son stole a pair of socks from the store once. We got home and he had them in the seat of the stroller, not sure, if he grabbed them when we walked by or what. But we got through the checkout with no one noticing or saying a thing.</p> <p>Stealing happens everywhere, especially at these discount department stores. People are not above using their kids as a distraction (stuffing the merchandise in the seat, the basket, the diaper bag). So giving them a way to get into an unattended or unmonitored location (re: Bathrooms) doesn't seem like a smart logistical move for a business.</p> <p>I also personally shop there because they have low prices, so I wouldn't even think of calling to ask them to install change tables as it would increase their overhead and they'd pass that along to the consumer. But that's just me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615960 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:46:14 +0000 matador84 2615960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I almost always found it easier to just change my kids in the car no matter where I was because the majority of changing tables were just disgusting, even with a pad down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615944 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:15:35 +0000 Bao 2615944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually prefer to use my car, some of those changing stations are so nasty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615936 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 13:04:04 +0000 Foodnerd81 2615936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: couldn't they do that in a regular bathroom with no changing table? (Says the mom who accidentally stole a nursing bra from Target when it slid under the car seat in the big part of the cart...) I guess I don't often think like a thief though. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615926 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 12:39:04 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2615926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@turquoisemama: @SweetCaroline: LO1 I usually changed in the car- she was afraid of loud bathrooms anyway. LO2 I still rarely use the changing pads for. They do gross me out too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615919 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 12:21:39 +0000 looch 2615919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: think like a thief...they're not leaving the stuff outside, they're jamming it into the stroller/ baby carriage and then bringing it into the bathroom to cut the tags off. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615907 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 11:13:54 +0000 autumn865 2615907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours don't have them either.... In an emergency I would just cover a bench in the fitting room with a receiving blanket and change them there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615900 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 10:30:06 +0000 Foodnerd81 2615900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: I'm pretty sure I've always been told to leave store items outside the bathroom- regardless of baby with me or not. I would guess it's more of a liability thing- like they can't get sued if a baby falls off a changing table or grabs a loose nail on it or something if there is no changing table. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615899 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 10:21:32 +0000 catomd00 2615899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yellowbird: oh yeah all the time! I don't think TJMaxx has any benches in their fitting rooms though? Maybe the handicapped one? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615860 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 07:14:00 +0000 SweetCaroline 2615860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think changing tables in public bathrooms are disgusting and can't bring myself to use them anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615846 Sun, 04 Sep 2016 04:18:21 +0000 turquoisemama 2615846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yellowbird: Totally! I never use the changing tables in the bathroom, it grosses me out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615826 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 21:34:15 +0000 yellowbird 2615826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ive used the fitting rom before </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615805 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 20:20:26 +0000 skipra 2615805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never noticed this! And with 2 LO's that have potty trained we've been in our fair share of their bathrooms. The only thing I've ever noticed is how disgusting their bathrooms are. It is a pain not to have one available in the case of an emergency blow out or something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615802 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 20:10:19 +0000 Jennibenni 2615802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I guess what I find so frustrating is that the bathrooms are usually very large and have more than enough room for one. And it's not like it's a place where no one brings kids. I don't see how a changing table would make it any easier to steal than accessing a stall would. And yes, I could go to the car but that is inconvenient and it's been in the 90s where I live for months so that is also hot for baby and for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615798 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 19:51:39 +0000 looch 2615798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would guess it has something to do with theft. I went to a children's store with my son and needed a dressing room so he could try on pants. They told me they lock them and. Don't allow them to be used because people steal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615795 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 19:41:04 +0000 misolee 2615795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been to the bathroom at many different tjmaxx (even today my four year old had to go). I thought they had changing tables...but now I can't remember clearly. I'll check next time but if they don't then it's a shame. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615793 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 19:35:31 +0000 rockinghorse 2615793@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The TJ Maxx by me has a changing table in the family changing room, which is also big enough to bring my stroller in when I try on clothes. I wonder if this was a new addition? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615748 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 15:17:38 +0000 catomd00 2615748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our tjmaxx bathroom is so disgusting I wouldn't even bring my baby in with me in the stroller the one time I had to go. It's odd when stores that cater to kids and to moms don't have them, but it's more annoying when only women's rooms have them! Honestly, in 2.5 years of parenting i have only used a public changing table twice. They gross me out, I'd rather just go to the car! If I have my stroller, I just lay it flat and do it there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615744 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:56:31 +0000 Iced Tea 2615744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hate it even more when I visit a supposedly family-friendly restaurant but find that it has no changing table. It makes no sense. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615737 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:58:58 +0000 Cole 2615737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't realize this until a friend pointed it out, she was enraged enough that she changed her baby on a shelf she cleared... Not my preferred tactic but I understand the frustration. I'll message them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615723 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:06:05 +0000 HLK208 2615723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would just change my LO in the car if I had to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615686 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:15:31 +0000 Foodnerd81 2615686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: sometimes you have to have an employee let you in but they are for customers. </p> <p>But yes both the Marshall's and TJ Maxx near me don't have changing tables. One of them had a wide enough sink area that I laid a small changing pad on it but it was kind of gross. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615670 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:05:23 +0000 Alba4 2615670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So many places don't have changing tables. My most recent gripe was with Honda. I was getting my car serviced and there was no changing table! They told me to use the table in the children's play area?!!! Gross. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615668 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:57:41 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2615668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All of the TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshalls I have been to have restrooms for customers. Sometimes I have had to go through a storage door to get to the bathroom, but they were definitely for customers. Until having a baby though I never paid attention to which retailers and restaurants have changing pads in them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615666 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:54:34 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2615666@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: I've never used one either. I think they have employee restrooms they'll let you use in a pinch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615663 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:47:58 +0000 Jennibenni 2615663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: Really? Every one I have every been to has a customer restroom. (I am a frequent pee-er so I use the bathroom almost everywhere I go haha.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615661 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:37:50 +0000 rachiecakes 2615661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't know they had public restrooms! I don't think my local one does? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-changing-tables-in-tjmaxx-stores#post-2615654 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:03:38 +0000 Jennibenni 2615654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you shop at TJMaxx, would you take a minute to call/email/Facebook them and complain that they do not have changing tables? I asked my local store why there was no changing table and I was told they were not allowed to have one. Then I called the corporate number and asked why. The rep had to put me on hold and finally came back to say she didn't have an approved answer but could only confirm that they do not have changing tables in TJMaxx stores. Said she could not say why. What the what?! They have a children's section, toys, moms and families shop there all the time and no changing tables? Maybe if they get enough complaints that will change. </p>