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[cpomp]

Originally Posted by moneymkt

One of Macys worst locations is 13th and Market. Had to go to Cherry Hill to get a nice wallet

Its actually among their higher performing stores (mostly due to location and foot traffic), but I agree, the Macys in Cherry Hill and KoP are better stocked, more organized, brighter and just nicer.
Kinda stinks since the Wanamker Building is so stunning, but the store mostly feels a bit dark and dreary, except the newer home section on the third floor.

But info from a friend, the Macys in CC, Cherry Hill, KoP, Christiana and Springfield and all high-performing stores, I don't see those going down unless the whole company goes down.

[moneymkt]

Originally Posted by cpomp

Its actually among their higher performing stores (mostly due to location and foot traffic), but I agree, the Macys in Cherry Hill and KoP are better stocked, more organized, brighter and just nicer.
Kinda stinks since the Wanamker Building is so stunning, but the store mostly feels a bit dark and dreary, except the newer home section on the third floor.

But info from a friend, the Macys in CC, Cherry Hill, KoP, Christiana and Springfield and all high-performing stores, I don't see those going down unless the whole company goes down.

I like the one in Roosevelt Mall too

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by kyb01

OT: Wasn't Sebelius tapped for HHS?

You're right. My bad. He tapped Tom Vilsack of Iowa for Agriculture.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by cpomp

Its actually among their higher performing stores (mostly due to location and foot traffic), but I agree, the Macys in Cherry Hill and KoP are better stocked, more organized, brighter and just nicer.
Kinda stinks since the Wanamker Building is so stunning, but the store mostly feels a bit dark and dreary, except the newer home section on the third floor.

But info from a friend, the Macys in CC, Cherry Hill, KoP, Christiana and Springfield and all high-performing stores, I don't see those going down unless the whole company goes down.

My recollection also is that Macy's has four stores it considers "flagships": two of its own and two it conferred that status on because of their histories.

The two purely Macy flagships are the Herald Square store (natch) and the store on Union Square in San Francisco (where the Macy's Flower Show tradition was born).

The two legacies are the store in Chicago (former Marshall Field & Company) and this one (John Wanamaker).

[cpomp]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

My recollection also is that Macy's has four stores it considers "flagships": two of its own and two it conferred that status on because of their histories.

The two purely Macy flagships are the Herald Square store (natch) and the store on Union Square in San Francisco (where the Macy's Flower Show tradition was born).

The two legacies are the store in Chicago (former Marshall Field & Company) and this one (John Wanamaker).

How ironic that the Center City store gets the least TLC when compared to the other 3. But I won't go off topic any further.

[Flyers Girl]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

My recollection also is that Macy's has four stores it considers "flagships": two of its own and two it conferred that status on because of their histories.

The two purely Macy flagships are the Herald Square store (natch) and the store on Union Square in San Francisco (where the Macy's Flower Show tradition was born).

The two legacies are the store in Chicago (former Marshall Field & Company) and this one (John Wanamaker).

Slightly OT, but I can happily say that I've been to three of those four locations. Happy because if they go down, well, at least I saw them. Lol. Never been to Chicago.

[moneymkt]

well that stimulus check in my account this morning made me feel better

[TownDweller]

Originally Posted by Flyers Girl

Slightly OT, but I can happily say that I've been to three of those four locations. Happy because if they go down, well, at least I saw them. Lol. Never been to Chicago.

I was there when it turned over from Marshall Fields to Macy's. What an iconic and amazing location. The history, the service and the merchandise was outstanding.

It was never the same after the turnover and I stopped shopping there. They should have created something along the lines of the NYC flagship but didn't. It felt like mall retail merchandiser housed in a grand space.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by TownDweller

I was there when it turned over from Marshall Fields to Macy's. What an iconic and amazing location. The history, the service and the merchandise was outstanding.

It was never the same after the turnover and I stopped shopping there. They should have created something along the lines of the NYC flagship but didn't. It felt like mall retail merchandiser housed in a grand space.

I think you could say the exact same thing about Macy's Center City Philadelphia store, even though that store's downsizing began two owners before Macy's acquired it. (Marshall Field's was fortunate to have been part of Dayton Hudson Corporation in its last years, before the Minneapolis-based retailer decided to get out of traditional department store retail altogether, sold its eponymous chains along with Marshall Field's, and renamed itself after its discount division. Carter Hawley Hale [later Broadway-Hale] had no idea what to do with the store the Rodman Wanamaker Trust left to slowly molder on the vine, and its sale to Washington's Woodward and Lothrop may have given it an injection of youth serum, but not a big enough one. The bloodletting began when May Department Stores of St. Louis, parent of Woodies' rival Hecht's, bought out Woodies and thus Wanamakers with it. For a while, they operated the Center City store under the Hecht's banner. When Strawbridge & Clothier also succumbed [also to May, which had learned its lesson from the Wanamaker acquisition and kept the Strawbridge name on its new Hecht's division stores], May shrank the store to the bottom 2.5 floors and turned it into a Lord & Taylor. Then Macy's acquired May, and here we are. At least Macy's added back the Chestnut Street side of the third floor.)

And I'll also speculate that the upper floors of Marshall Field's are now office space. Are they?

[TownDweller]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

I think you could say the exact same thing about Macy's Center City Philadelphia store, even though that store's downsizing began two owners before Macy's acquired it. (Marshall Field's was fortunate to have been part of Dayton Hudson Corporation in its last years, before the Minneapolis-based retailer decided to get out of traditional department store retail altogether, sold its eponymous chains along with Marshall Field's, and renamed itself after its discount division. Carter Hawley Hale [later Broadway-Hale] had no idea what to do with the store the Rodman Wanamaker Trust left to slowly molder on the vine, and its sale to Washington's Woodward and Lothrop may have given it an injection of youth serum, but not a big enough one. The bloodletting began when May Department Stores of St. Louis, parent of Woodies' rival Hecht's, bought out Woodies and thus Wanamakers with it. For a while, they operated the Center City store under the Hecht's banner. When Strawbridge & Clothier also succumbed [also to May, which had learned its lesson from the Wanamaker acquisition and kept the Strawbridge name on its new Hecht's division stores], May shrank the store to the bottom 2.5 floors and turned it into a Lord & Taylor. Then Macy's acquired May, and here we are. At least Macy's added back the Chestnut Street side of the third floor.)

And I'll also speculate that the upper floors of Marshall Field's are now office space. Are they?

Interesting history, off topic but a good read anyway. Yes, it has been office space for a while.

Same thing happened to the iconic Carson Pirie Scott store, one block down from MF on State Street. MF was built in several stages over years, but CPS was designed by Louis Henry Sullivan and is a masterpiece. Sullivan was the man who saw promise in a young architect named Frank Lloyd Wright and subsequently loaned him $5,000 towards his Oak Park home.