Amazingly, New England is spared.

The Maryland stores seem to be okay.

*waits for "I hate Macys, glad they're closing stores" posts*

What's hilarious is that they will NEVER close a Chicago store, or else they'd admit that they fucked up by changing the Marshall Field name.

I was sure the one by me in Cincinnati would be gone too. It's a pathetic excuse for a Macy's. They "remodeled" it by adding floor space, but somehow deleting entire departments. Nary a semi-formal or formal dress can be found. Needless to say, I rarely shop there.

Can they close the giant one here in NYC so the annoying tourists don't hang out around my office anymore? Pretty please?

Seriously, I will never understand the tourist appeal of that place. They sell the same shit as every other Macys!! Stop standing outside my office with your giant bags chain-smoking!

*3* Employees? Really?

Only 3 employees in the Pennsylvania and Hawaii stores?

@palookapalooza: Maybe they already fired the other 90? The economy, you know.

Why couldn't they close the Douglaston, NY store. That place is such a mess. Clothes are all over the place and the building has a funky smell. The Douglaston store used to be a Sterns and it was just as messy.

Close Douglaston please. The Manhasset and Roosevelt Field stores are so much nicer and worth the 10 minute drive.

There's a rumor that the Kingston, NY store is going as well (I'm a native of that region). I would not be shocked if that were the case; it has sucked hardcore for as long as I can remember.

Wow when I saw that, kinda scared me that such a huge retailer had store closings, then I noticed 9 closed last year, so I'm guessing it's kinda common? Lol. Glad my Palm Desert, CA isn't closing.... that would suck.

@ElizabethD: I'm likewise stunned that none of the Michigan locations are closing. Everything else around here is closing.

Kinda sad that the good economic news nowadays is "someplace else had a bad day instead of us."

@IrvCrapper: *Exactly* what I was thinking.

@Michael Bauser: The reason is because the ones in Michigan (mainly the metro ones) are very high cash stores. So the company keeps them open even though they aren't technically making a buttload.

I can't speak for the Hawaii store, but the one in PA is just a furniture store. I've been in there a couple of times, and it's an old Horne's Department Store that has basically been emptied and filled with furniture. I never see anyone shopping or working there, but it's always open with the rest of the mall. Kind of creepy, really.

@palookapalooza: The Hawaii store appears to be located inside a hotel. Maybe it's just some sort of mini-store selling to tourists.

That West Mifflin, PA store, on the other hand, has 152,948 square feet of floor space, according to Wikipedia, so the "3 employees" must be a mistake.

Also: Why the hell does Wikipedia list the square footage of stores in a shopping mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania?

I love the "None in Ohio" note in the PD's article. I know that they were localizing it, but there's a sign of relief--or even a note of surprise--in that. "A retailer is doing poorly and closing stores, and NONE are in OHIO?!?"

@nicemarmot617: Nobody ever understands the tourist appeal of things they live near. As a person who's lived in Lancaster County, PA, as well as Amish Country in Ohio, I've never understood the tourist appeal of buggies, windmills, and covered bridges.

@IrvCrapper: So true. But I'm sure those stores are not doing too bad (in comparison).

@nicemarmot617: In addition close the one in San Francisco at Union Sq.... Why does anyone want a photo in front a a macys? I can understand In-N-Out Burger, but macys.

Every time I walk home I have to push my way past the crowds waiting to take their photos, and then the crowds watching those stupid people all dressed up in silver or gold trying to make a buck.

@palookapalooza: It sounds like the Hawaii one may just be one of those little shops in a hotel lobby. I don't know what the heck that Pennsylvania one would be--Furniture and Clearance? Sounds like the local Particle Board R Us.

Glad their not closing the Chicago stores. I really hope we don't end up with malls full of vacant property, we don't need the US smacking of one giant downtown Detroit.

@palookapalooza: I lived across the street from the hawaii store for a few months, yeah it was really small and you would not realize it was there unless you google map it. It was a nice small store where one who was stuck in waikiki and had to buy hawaiian clothing could go.

@Michael Bauser: Because square meters are for the UK, silly.

@zifnab: Haha... reminds me of when I was 15 and I used to go to the mall to hang out with my boyfriend. When we got tired of walking around the mall, we'd go sit on the couches in a furniture store to talk. Well, one time we went in and there were no employees in the store. After about 20 minutes an employee came out from the backroom and practically jumped out of his skin because it scared him that there were people in the store.

@Jackasimov: same here. our local mall only has two department stores left, jcpenney and macy's! it would suck to only have one. not because i shop at macy's, but because it'd be pretty depressing.

@captadam: I completely disagree. I grew up in the touristy area of Western Michigan and I can totally understand why someone would want to visit - there's silly Dutch-themed stuff and gorgeous golden-sand beaches and even some mediocre skiing in the winter. Wanting to come there makes sense!

Similarly, now that I live in NYC, I can understand the tourist appeal of the city. It's visiting the Macys itself that I don't get - there are Macys everywhere, all over the country. The Macys here is very large, but it is also insanely crowded, and sells the exact same stuff as every other Macys. Why did you come all the way here to go to a store you could visit more conveniently at home? There are tons of stores here that you don't find in the rest of the country.

@IrvCrapper: Maybe you can answer this question for me. Why did people lose their minds when Marshall Fields was renamed?

Brookdale Center is a dump- it's a single level mall built on a swamp, and is mostly populated by elderly mall wakers (mornings) and hoodrats (afternoon & evenings).

A few years back there was a small riot when a tween boy band played there. A few thousand pre-teen girls stormed the stage and pretty much made the band fear for their lives and cancel the rest of the show.

@Michael Bauser:
No mistake--there really are three employees. It's basically a furniture clearance place rather than a conventional Macy's.
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I'm floored that even after the closings, they're still keeping both locations in Fair Oaks Mall, VA. Surreal.

Considering the entire Bellevue Center is a ghost town, that's not surprising. They're supposed to be bulldozing it sometime soon.

@Michael Bauser: Because whoever was editing the article knew the square footage for some reason and thought everyone else should, too.

@ElizabethD: Too bad, I would have liked to have seen one of the stores that I refuse to walk into get the chop. I've had way too many issues with their jewelry dept. to even think of walking in any of their stores.

@ThickSkinned: Chicago.

@nicemarmot617: 'Cause it's big, and pretty, and has some history as THE Macy's. I've visited it, but only because I really needed to pee, and I was outside it, and it had a restroom.

@nicemarmot617:

They still tout it as the "World's Largest Department Store" and most people that come to NYC have never seen a store the size of a city block.

Having said that, it saddens me when all these American tourists come here and GO TO THE SAME PLACES THAT THEY WOULD IN THEIR STUPID HOMETOWN. Why the hell would you come here to spend $10 on a Big Mac THAT YOU COULD GET IN BUMBLEFUCK, IDAHO?! Foreign tourists, i can understand, but not someone from the Midwest. "Oh this Burger King is different because there aint no parkin' lot!" UGH. There's more to NYC than generic chain stores.

@MameDennis: I see. I mixed up the regular Macy's with the furniture outlet version. Apparently, they have one of each at that mall.

(I don't think we have outlet Macy's in Michigan. All of our Macy's used to Marshall Fields stores which used to be Hudson's stores.)

West Mifflin, Pennsylvania? That's just down the interstate from North Dunder, right?

@apronk: My thoughts exactly. How in the world could Macy's operate a store with 3 employees?

@ThickSkinned: It was the gold standard of department stores and long a Chicago institution, from it's Christmas windows to it's excellent customer service (as well as the Frango Mints). Macy's bought it and turned it into a low-class K-Mart.

@ThickSkinned: people lost their minds here in Minnesota when Dayton's was renamed to Marshall Fields. Daytons was started here, just like MF was in Chicago. No one likes to see a long-time name with local ties go away like that.

For the record, the St. Louis store (Crestwood) is just part of a mall suckage. That entire mall has been dying for years, and there are only a few retailers left there. I don't see it as "Oh my god, Macy's in Crestwood is underperforming!" as much as "Oh my god, why are there STILL people in Crestwood Mall?"

@IrvCrapper: But I miss Lord & Taylor! j/k

@Papercutninja: I always said it is because it has God's oldest escalator - those wooden woods a few floors up are actually some of the oldest in any store in the world. They are narrow and rickety, but also about 125 years old at this point.

@nicemarmot617: Actually they don't sell the same stuff as their other stores. I buy their hotel collection towels, and in most Macy's stores, it's their "Microcotton" or "Turkish Cotton" towels. I have only seen their "Finest" towels at the NYC store (unless I order online)

They should close either the Springfield Mall and or the Landmark Mall in NoVA. No one goes to Landmark and Springfield mall sucks horribly lately. Plus there is the violence....

@theblackdog: I was wrong, I can't even get them online, and checking for which stores have it confirms they don't sell them in the DC/NoVA area

@Christopher Yates: I ask myself that everytime I go there.
Isn't that a waste of money for them?
Or how about one in each of the Tysons Malls? I mean really, do they need stores literally across the street from each other? I understand one is for average people and the other is for the wealthy, but... really?!?