I have a friend who has worked for TJ's for over 5 years and he recommended that I apply. Thought I'd be a shoe-in because I've had several years of retail experience and this particular location has hight turnover and "is always hiring". Plus, this particular location is expanding and should be opening in the next month. Anyway, I walked in with my completed application and had a very upbeat, pleasant chat with the MOD for about 10 minutes. He made some notes on my application and then told me that they would call me to follow-up in three days if they were interested or else they would send me a rejection letter by mail (they didn't use those words). Time passed and I figured that they weren't interested. My friend followed up with me and when I related my experience he told me that his friend who is the main manager at that location had been out of town on vacation and that he'd ring him and ask him to give me an interview. So they called me back the following week - FYI it is now three weeks since I dropped off the application - and scheduled an interview with me. I went in for the interview and they had double-booked me with someone else. I waited cheerfully and two people interviewed me. All of the questions were straight off of this web site - I had done my homework and was really well prepared. I was cheerful and thought I answered well and thought I had good chemistry with the Mate and the other person, who I think was a Mate-in-training. The interview was extremely brief - twenty minutes! They told me that they'd follow up next week with a phone call for a second interview if they wanted to move forward with me. So....the next week I got a letter informing me that they had decided to not bring me onto the crew. It was signed by my friend's manager friend. It was dated the day that I interviewed. Totally a WTF moment...