Posted on 01/08/2009 6:20:10 AM PST by Ebenezer
What a relief! My Macy’s is staying open...for now. I’d better get shopping, LOL!
(I only go there once a year at Christmas. They have some super-duper sales on housewares that make great gifts.)
However, two of my friends are going to be devastated. I’ll be able to hear the pulling of hair and the gnashing of teeth from here, once they open the e-mail link I just sent them. ;)
Pelican State ping
I hope the Macy’s stores in Louisiana are doing well. In the New Orleans metropolitan area, the chain reopened its Kenner store in October of last year after a 3-year closure following hurricane Katrina, and it opened a new one at Lakeside Mall in Metairie during the same time.
Macy’s would be doing better if they hired some employees and provided service in their stores. Even in New York, they’d have 10 registers on the floor - and one surly clerk at the one open register with a line of 15 people. I just used to abandon the items I was going to buy and leave after about 10 minutes not moving in the line. There were piles of clothing near the line, so I obviously wasn’t the only one who did this.
I hope the Macy's store in Plaza Las Américas is doing well.
The three Macy’s near us were giving things away in December...never saw anything like it in a store not going belly-up......yet.
The bargains were there, to be sure. My family and I went to one of our local Macy’s stores the days after Christmas and New Year’s and took advantage of discounts.
I’ve been to several Macy’s in my area. All look like upscale flea markets. They also have no customer service. I simply stopped even trying to shop there.
The one at Lakeside just opened up recently. Louisiana's economy isn't all that bad at this time but I really can't see the Greater New Orleans population being able to support another Macy's for any length of time. I hope I am wrong. I had to do most of my Christmas shopping at TJ Maxx this year because of pummeling investments so I hope others are weathering the storms better than I.
Are you kidding? The poor, oppressed people of the squalid Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are packing the shopping malls as much as ever!
“Macy’s would be doing better if they hired some employees and provided service in their stores.”
Exactly.
because several years back, Macys bought out Hecht co. here in the suburban VA area, we have TWO macys in some malls. i notice they aren’t on the list of those to be closed either!
Glad to see that our local store is staying open. Since she retired (at 83), my Mom’s only hobby has been shopping and Macy’s is her favorite. The clerks all know her by name and save things for her if they know a sale is coming up.
I love Macy’s. I hate to see any store closing though. I am a petite and the one in my town has a very nice and sizable petite department. Everyone in the U.S. isn’t a giant or fat (but you’d never know that by the sizes most places stock). Penney’s often does not even carry a small - they start with a few mediums and then a ton of larges. Ugh.
My Macy’s is great. I’d love to see Dillards hire some of the Macy’s people in my town. The Dillards is awful - had a clerk make me wait in line for several minutes while she chatted with her 4 year old granddaughter!!!!!
I have never ordered from Macy’s on-line. I like to try things on - you can’t ever know for sure until you try it on unless it’s something you’ve bought already and just want the same thing in more colors.
Almost store that is closing is in a state that voted for Obama.
They wanted change, right?
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