Macy's To Close 3 NE Ohio Stores

[OhioChick]

POSTED: 1:43 pm EST December 28, 2007
UPDATED: 1:49 pm EST December 28, 2007

CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati-based Macy's has announced plans to close nine underperforming stores, including three in northeast Ohio.

They are at the Randall Park Mall in North Randall, the Rolling Acres Mall in Akron and Canton Centre in Canton.

Others are in Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, Lake Charles, La., and Riverdale, Utah.

Macy's operates more than 850 department stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico under the names of Macy's and Bloomingdale's.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/14939454/detail.html

Everything Seems to be Closing up Here. For Sale signs Everywhere. Soon, We'll be a Ghost-town.

[dropkickpa]

1. Meh

Macy's came in and bought Kaufman's here. I loved Kaufman's, they always had great sales. Macy's has completely underwhelmed me. I don't go in there now.

[libnnc]

4. Macy's bought Hechts which bought Thalhimers

I used to work at Thalhimers way back when. When the May Company came in, they fired us all and closed a bunch of stores. I hate the department store business.

[dropkickpa]

13. There were a lot of people

Who had worked at the flagship (original) Kaufmann's downtown who had been there for 30, 40, 50+ years, which tells me they were treating their employees good. I haven't seen them in subsequent trips since the change. A sad, sad state of affairs.

[libnnc]

17. Yep. I worked with women who

had been with the store for 40 years. They were essentially shoved out the door. It was horrible. To this day I can't bring myself to go to store liquidation sales.

[dropkickpa]

22. There was a little lunch place

The Tic Toc (named after the famous Kaufmann's clock) that had a woman who'd worked there for 60+ years. It was fantastic May had owned Kaufmanns for a long time, but they operated separately until 2005.

Federated has NO CLUE. Pittsburghers are VERY loyal to hometown things, and this may be too much for many. We've suffered the "high-end dept store" blues in the disastrous Lazarus debacle about 8 years ago the city funded most of the building, they didn't have to pay rent until sales reached $35 million/year (never did), only to have them (federated, the fuckers) close less than 5 years after opening, never paying the city a dime.

[Wwagsthedog]

7. Ditto that

Macy's took over our Foley's. We don't go there much now. Seems that the prices on everything went up.

[Kahuna]

20. Macy's has great sales all the time. Give them a try....

I live in NJ where Macy's is an institution.

[dropkickpa]

24. Not as good as Kaufmann's was

Straight from the macy-horses mouth

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07059/765439-28.stm

She said Federated's strategy of offering customers a wider range of choices -- the good, better, best selection -- has struck a chord. The average retail price per unit sold in former May locations is up.

Good for business that prices are up, bad for us.

[ThatsMyBarack]

2. Fuck Macy's....

....for snuffing out Marshall Field's in Chicago! :mad:

[WillowTree]

26. Ditto.

I've never set foot in any of those stores since they ceased to be Marshall Field's and I never will.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

3. Macy's stinks----I haven't entered one in 20 years.

[ok_cpu]

5. I don't know about Randall Park Mall

But Canton Centre and Rolling Acres are ghost towns. They cannot be making money there.

[blues90]

6. It all seems to be hitting the midwest first

probably because that area is where alot of the manufacturing industry came from . This entire country is drying up like a prune in the calif summer sun as far as jobs and money . Michigan seems to be the first to be hit hard .

[OhioChick]

11. I Think That

Ohio is coming in at a close 2nd.

[blues90]

14. You are right , also what I noticed here as well as other places

Here in grand old Hollywood what they have done is destroy all the older stores that existed without malls as well as amny of the independant shops and replaced them with these mega malls all built out of glass and steel and marble , some even have video screens on the outside . Many of these have shops that have closed and re-opened into another failed store , I don't go in but I see the signage changes .

It could be me but the changes have destroyed this small city . They are building several tall buildings , hell if I know what they are for when there are no jobs really .

When I look around and see and hear what's going on I have to wonder what is happening and who it is that feels this is progress , it just does not jive with the big picture at all as far as the economy as we well know is dying , this country is broke but yet they continue to build new crap as if there is absolutely nothing wrong at all . what do they see that I don't .

it is crowded enough here , I don't know who or what they are trying to attract , unless their goal is to wipe out what little is left of the independants .

I have no idea that fits within reason how there is a chance of ever bringing this economy back .

[knitter4democracy]

21. The whole Rustbelt is hurting.

Chicago seems to be doing okay, but so much of the rest of the area is really hurting. :(

[ShaneGR]

8. I don't understand the concept of a Macy's at Rolling Acres in Akron

Lets just say Rolling Acres isn't exactly my idea of a high class mall, and Macy's was always associated with high end department stores.

[tammywammy]

30. Agreed

There's a crummy mall near where I work and they have a Macy's now. I think it's just too strange.

[elfin]

9. Macy's ruined the Marshall Fields in Milwaukee

No class as compared to Field's. Just another department store, no reason to make a special trip just or it.

Still sick about it. Until we get a Nordstrom's or equivalent -- stuck in boring land and have to use specialty stores.

[madrchsod]

15. still a hot button issue in chicago

chicago`s macy`s store is way off in sales compared to the fields/target store

[OzarkDem]

10. Ohio economy sucks

Too many years of corrupt GOP rule will take a long time to turn around.

[davidinalameda]

12. Macy's has the most screwed up corporate plan

if they even have one

there's one in a mall south of here and let's just say that the mall isn't the place where I would expect a Macy's

and they're having sales every single day

how much money could they save if they cut prices and stopped buying full page ads in the newspapers all the time

someone seriously needs to step in before the entire chain collapses

[madrchsod]

19. they bought up everyone and now they have to run those stores

stores that were on the margin and now will collapse taking macy`s with them. there is`t enough people with money to keep Macy's a nation wide retailer...they will be selling off a lot of property across the country.

[davidinalameda]

23. I hope they do end up selling properties

with minimum disruption to the employees who I'm sure have been through absolute hell with these mergers

[AtomicKitten]

16. Macy's is going all K-Mart with Martha Stewart products.

[Habibi]

18. Macy's replaced the Kaufman's here in Rottenchester

and didn't flip the merchandise. Same stuff. I remember shopping at Macy's in NYC, in the 70s, and Macy's was still kinda "speshal".

[Raine]

25. I miss Bullocks and Broadway

not that I got to shop at either very often. They were expensive but whenever I needed a gift for a wedding or something like that I went to one of those stores. They had saleswomen that had been there for generations and they gave personal help, would even wrap the gifts and mail them off for the customer...no more...those stores all gone...swallowed up. :-(

[samplegirl]

27. The ecomony is so bad in Ohio

that our Mall is not doing well and many of the stores are being replaced with lower priced chains. I thought for sure that it would be our Macy's closing as it was Kaufmanns and it couldn't cut it and then Dillards which could not compete and now Macy's which is to expensive for our economy.
Walmarts, Kmarts,& Dollar Stores with check into cash on every
corner. Gotta love a booming economy!

[enid602]

28. same in LA

Only Macy's and Bloomy's now in the land of Bullocks, Bullocks/Wilshire, May Co., JW Robinson's Buffum's, etc. A big part of LA died when they took over.

[JI7]

29. they need people working at the register

i know someone mentioned before that the store discourages the employees from waiting at the registers. but that does not help at all. i went yesterday and some lady was at the register with the things she wanted to buy, just waiting for someone to show up.

i wonder how many have left because of this.