<p>We have plenty of (overpriced) outlet malls here or near here (CT), buy what about REAL factory outlets with REAL deals!</p>
<p>This place has great deals on All Clad cookware. Often they are marked as “seconds” because there is one scratch on the bottom, but in reality, the first time you use it you will be making many of those same marks.</p>
<p>[Cookware</a> & More - Outlet for All-Clad Irregulars](<a href=“http://www.cookwarenmore.com%5DCookware”>http://www.cookwarenmore.com)</p>
<p>Thank you, Thumper!!</p>
<p>As I was saying – </p>
<p>Talbots has clearance stores, where I’ve gotten some incredible buys. The stuff is leftovers and returns from their real stores. Usually one who season behind, so right now, for example (late November), one can find Fall clothes. The nearest one to me is in Orange, CT.</p>
<p>Surfcity…what about the ones marked “irregular”? There is an irregular all clad set for $500 that I’m tempted to buy!</p>
<p>Near Hilton Head in Yemassee, SC there is a Le Crueset cookware and Sabatier knife outlet. The stores are in a tiny strip mall in the middle of nowhere, not in the Tanger outlets closer to HHI. I haven’t been in a few years but they were true factory outlets. I think they are near a distribution center.</p>
<p>Le Creuset outlets are great. Sign up for their mailing list; they often send “extra 35% off” postcards. Many of their pieces are discontinued lines or seconds (slightly irregular) pieces.</p>
<p>I’ve been to that Sabatier outlet. Locally pronounced “sab-a-TEER”.</p>
<p>Dansko has an outlet on line. I’ve bought some shoes there.</p>
<p>We used to have a terrific Dansk outlet near us. It closed. Very sad. I got terrific glassware, cookware, and a wonderful salad bowl there – tremendously reduced.</p>
<p>Thumper, I can’t remember but you may be able to call them and ask about the piece. I went to the physical store so I could look over the items and I would have bought most of them. Most of the flaws were minor and would not have affected their performance.</p>
<p>I got an irregular saut</p>
<p>Lands End has a handful of ‘inlets’ in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. I used to love flipping through the racks of returned or incorrect monogrammed apparel. My dad was in a nursing home and clothes were always switched between patients, so I could pick him up polo shirts for a few $$.</p>
<p>Close to the Talbots outlet in Milford CT – same plaza on Rt. 1 on the Milford/Orange line is an LLBean outlet. I’ve gotten some nice deals on little tables, mis-monogrammed totes, and other things.</p>
<p>Saks Fifth Ave. has a true outlet in their distribution warehouse in Aberdeen, MD. Dirt cheap prices, but often merch is damaged or just returned goods. Sometimes the damage is hardly noticeable, sometimes I can’t believe it is for sale at all.</p>
<p>cnp55, I’ve been to that LLBean store (well, of course; I buy practically all my clothes at the Talbots next door!) and have been very underwhelmed. They seem to have an overabundance of mis-monogrammed totes, and I really don’t want one with someone else’s initials.</p>
<p>^With some patience, good eyesight and a seam ripper, you can remove the monogram.</p>
<p>I bought some mis-monogrammed totes at a LL Bean factory outlet near Williamsburg, VA, and they give you printed instructions on how to do it.</p>
<p>I love the totes–use them as shopping bags. (And the checkout baggers love them too because they stand up by themselves.)</p>
<p>If you can find a Burberry outlet away from a major metropolitan area, you can get some utter steals there. I had one within a 30 minute drive of my hometown that was just far enough away from Chicago that it wasn’t highly trafficked–I got a small cross body nightlife purse that was ‘irregular’ for $30. Apparently the lining that they used on a whole line of bags was coming undone on one specific bag so they pulled all bags that used that lining. I also once found a perfect (no pulled threads, no damage, no nothing) chunky knit sweater there for $35–it was ‘last season’. That being said, the Burberry outlets near metro areas are picked over. I’ve been to the Leesburg, VA one several times and was disappointed by their prices and selection.</p>