I have said many times over the last couple of years that I expected this. I was there last year and it seemed in an awful state, no shoppers and little merchandise.
This was a very large Macys, six floors, a basement, and even a second building.
Headline is a bit off. Should be “Macy’s TO shutter Union Square location,” as store is slated to close in 2025. In any case, though, this may be the TKO punch to a downtown SF shopping district that was already on the ropes.
we’ve visited there, it is a HUGE store
and very attractive too.
it is just so sad it is surrounded by drunks, druggies, beggars, and filth on the sidewalks
and
the shoplifting in SF is totally out of control
plus of course they are stuck paying super inflated costs including taxes up the kazoo
It appears that even the biggest and “best” stores just can’t handle trying to do biz in Californication anymore
the local drugstores are closing there too, meanwhile those that are still open are barricading all sorts of merchandise behind locked cabinets, trying to protect some of their inventory from the robbers that enter both individually and in big organized gangs to steal them blind
Do you ever go to the park in the middle of Union square with the trumpet flowers?
A sad announcement. Shortly after the war, my Army combat veteran father, age 24 and already a major by virtue of multiple battlefield promotions, was stationed at The Presidio in San Francisco. My mother, age 18, found employment as a dress model at the O’Connor, Moffat & Co. department store, which was soon to be acquired by Macy’s and become the anchor for its West coast operations. My father was handsome, and my mother had movie star good looks and was ideal for the modeling job. It was a storybook posting for the newlyweds, and they recalled the experience with fondness in later years.
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Blame Gov. Greaseball Newsom for this and for the destruction of San Francisco as its former mayor. He now is destroying California as governor, and wants to do the same to America as Biden’s replacement.
very sad....all our memories of the way life used to be...our traditions all going down the tubes....
They should shut Valkey Fair and Stanford, especially Stanford
Wait
Everyone will be forced to take the elevator to Cheese Cake Factory?
That ain’t gonna go welll
It was always glorious at Christmas time
So sad
Mrs LS says Macy’s started to change its intended customer a few years ago from upper class adult women to teens.
My first ‘adult’ job was being a ‘Flyer’ that substituted thru different departments for absent employees at Macy*s. Well, that shortens my resume a bit ...
I lived in SF in the mid-70s and Macy’s was my first credit card...which I swiftly charged to the max. We called Macy’s “the company store” because we truly owed our souls to Macy’s. It was a wonderful store. I moved away decades ago, and I’m much better at managing my money these days, but I will always have fond memories of Macy’s Union Square.