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    Just had to vent...Macy's is a horrible store and it is ruining city-specific culture and history! Macy's, a retail department store chain run by Federated Department Stores, is taking over more and more stores ever since Federated bought out the stores previously run by May Company department stores. May Company ran stores such as Strawbridge's, Hect's, Robinsons-May, etc. Now that Federated has bought out the May Company stores, most of these stores are being converted over to Macy's, some are being closed and sold to the rare few remaining retail chains, and some stores are simply being shuttered and left to rot. Even before Federated took over May Company, it ran several other retail chains and eventually converted its own stores over to the Macy's name...stores such as Lazarus, Goldsmith's, Burdines, and Bon Marche. Hells, probably the only Federated store that HASN'T been converted to the Macy's nameplate is Bloomingdale's!

    So what does this mean? Homogenous cookie cutter Macy's springing up everywhere! In past years, you would be able to travel to a city and shop in city-specific, locally run department stores. In Chicago, Marshall Field's ruled. In Florida, it was Burdines. In my own city of Philadephia, it was Wanamakers, Strawbridge & Clothier, Gimbels, Lit Brothers, and Snellenbergs. Each major city had their specific department store chain with a large historic flagship store downtown. These regional department store chains contributed to a feeling of loyalty to one's city, because someone could shop in their own city of say, Philadelphia, and think, "Wanamaker's started here, in MY city!" Most of these city-specific department store chains had a long history and served as early pioneers of the retail industry. For example, John Wanamaker's was one of the first department stores in the nation to have electric lights and offer nighttime shopping hours for the first time in the late 1800s. A lot of these long-standing center city flagship stores also exhibited unique features such as in-store restaurants, ornate architecture, and Christmas puppet show exhibits. It added a unique flavor to each city or region. Macy's claims that they are trying to save the traditional statues and Christmas events that the former chains held, but they are only doing a half-ass job at best. Yeah they are saving the Christmas light show and eagle statue that made Wanamaker's truly "Wanamaker's"(just as Lord & Taylor, Macy's predecessor did), but they are changing the name and closing out the upper levels of the store! On top of that, they completely closed down the historic Strawbridge & Clothier location down the street...a store that I always visited each Christmas, to marvel at the history and visit the in-store restaurant! Couldn't they have kept locations open, and kept the same name?...If the stores are all run by Federated, the profit will end up in Federated's pocket no matter what the damn name is, but please keep tradition! And if I travel to say, Chicago, I do not want to go shopping to some ordinary Macy's that I could shop at back home. Now there are far less department store selections to choose from. Macy's is essentially destroying traditions and city history and contributing to the big business takeover of smaller chains...a similar tactic employed by Wal-Mart!

    As a result, I am very angry at Macy's and will be boycotting them. LOL but in reality, I was boycotting them before the monopolizing occured, because I worked there once and they fired me in one of the most inconvenient, worst ways possible that I've ever encountered. When they fired me, I was thinking "I hope Macy's dies" so the last thing that I want to see is Macy's succeed and put other stores under. Yes I'm sure that other chains employ the same workplace tactics as Macy's so maybe Macy's isn't any worse of a workplace than most retail stores, but it doesn't help them any when I already think it's annoying that they are homogenizing the nation's historic department store chains. I have searched the web and found a large number of angry people that are outraged about Macy's pulling the plug on such long-standing chains such as Marshall Field's and Burdines. The other day when I randomly visited my local mall, I heard ladies outside discussing about how they used to shop at Strawbridge's, they don't like Macy's, and would rather start shopping at Boscov's(which doesn't have the same quality products as Strawbridge's did) than Macy's. I don't think there's too many people that are happy with Macy's right now. If you agree with me, you should start shopping elsewhere to prevent Macy's from profitting and growing even bigger.

    At the rate that we are going, what's next? We do not have many middle-class department stores to choose from. The other chains in my area include JC Penneys, Sears, Kohl's, and Boscov's...that's it! (JC Penneys has closed many locations in recent years and at the rate the economy and retail industry is going, I do not see it lasting too long.) Besides those four stores, you can choose from the discount stores, but they generally cater to a different economic crowd than department stores do. There is still a decent variety amongst upscale stores(Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, etc) but they cater to people with more expensive taste than the middle class crowd. Even with discount stores, there have been many chain closures and now there are only three big chains left...Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Target. Wal-Mart is the biggest chain of the discount stores, and I hate Wal-mart even more than I hate Macy's! And most people that like to shop at department stores, want brands that are more expensive than the brands generally carried at discount stores.

    Anyone have opinions about the behemoth Macy's takeover of chains, or any bitter resentments about Macy's? This whole issue has really concerned me and annoyed me. I hate seeing traditions that I grew up with get ruined. As a capitalistic society, Macy's has a right to expand its business, but we consumers also have a right to boycott, protest, and take our business elsewhere.

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    yea, they took over meier and frank over here in the nw..it's sad

    i went in there for the first time yesterday...not impressed at all. there was not very much selection and it was overpriced.

    i loved m&f their clearance racks rocked! like 70-80% off! the dept that i shop in is like a third of the size it was when m&f was there.





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    Each major city had their specific department store chain with a large historic flagship store downtown.
    And if customers truly valued these stores, they'd still be doing a thriving business (perhaps even expanding) rather than struggling and becoming attractive takeover targets for Federated.

    Much ado about nothing, frankly, since Federated bought out organizations that couldn't have stood on their own in the current market anyway. Six in one, half a dozen in the other.
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    And if customers truly valued these stores, they'd still be doing a thriving business (perhaps even expanding) rather than struggling and becoming attractive takeover targets for Federated.

    Much ado about nothing, frankly, since Federated bought out organizations that couldn't have stood on their own in the current market anyway. Six in one, half a dozen in the other.
    Sometimes stores have a large customer base but it is not enough to withstand the large buying power that a large corporation like Federated Department Stores has. I can't speak for everyone, but I used to shop at Strawbridge's and I do NOT shop at Macy's. LOL even when I worked there and was entitled to a small employee discount, the ONLY "money" that I spent at Macy's was in the form of the free gift certificates that I was given as a reward for being a good employee. So even then, before the takeover and before they fired me, I never spent much money at Macy's.

    As far as you saying that Federated bought out stores that couldn't have stood on their own if they'd continued...maybe that is true for some of the chains, but Federated coulda at least kept the name and unique features the same but changed internal facets, such as management, bookkeeping/accounting, sales/marketing techniques, etc. There are a lot of corporations that fail because of faulty bookkeeping, poor business decision making, etc. Federated still coulda kept the original name and aspects of the chain, such as Strawbridge's "Clover Days" sales.

    For example, when May Company bought out the 13 remaining Strawbridge & Clothier stores in 1996, they kept half of the name, the Clover Days sales, the historic center city flagship store open, and the original "Strawbridge & Clothier" name plaques on the store entrances despite the name being reduced to Strawbridge's. I wasn't happy when May Co. took over S&C, but they did a decent job with it. However, Federated has completely butchered S&C/Strawbridge's by changing the name to Macy's and closing the center city location, along with countless other locations that occured in the same shopping mall as an already existing Macy's(couldn't they have filled those locations with a Bloomingdales, insteada closing it and costing people jobs and making the malls look vacant/ugly?).

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    Hmmm... I don't have to much sympathy for what amounts to the "chain storing" of malls...

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    They took over our Foley's a couple weeks back, but I really didn't like Foley's and don't care to go in Macy's either.

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    I don't really see Macy's as in the realm of Kohl's or Penney's. I feel that Macy's is not affordable, either. I'd lump them into the Nordstrom's or Sak's category of clothing and cosmetics shopping.

    Yeah, they took over Meier and Frank here in the Northwest as well as Bon Marche. We had both as anchor stores in the Mall here in Eugene, and now there is a big empty space in an unimpressive mall. The Emporium disappeared a few years ago, too.

    I don't know about most people, but I do most of my clothes shopping in the smaller stores like Express and Gap anyway. I know if I want something edgy I'll go to Hot Topic or Abercrombie and Fitch or Wet Seal. If I want something practical I'll shop at Maurices or Banana Republic or Express. There are so many speciality clothing stores around that it is easy enough to see why the big department stores catering to the middle class are dissappearing.

    Individuality is very in right now, and the big department stores sell plain vanilla, off-the-rack type of clothing. There is a shift in the way consumers buy, so the retailers must shift how they sell.


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    I hate Macy's. They killed Famous Barr! ><
    Now I can't afford to shop anywhere in the damn mall!
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    I think you might want to save your rage about the homogenization of American retail for Wal-Mart, of course. Also, the decline of regional and local department stores went along with the decline of American downtowns and the growth of suburbia. It's no new thing, that's for sure.

    So hey, if you want to combat it, buy locally or used. I have to say that I wish it were easier to find domestically maufactured clothing . . . I'm kind of tired of everything being made in Asia and my money leaving the county. But of course, I'm kind of a dork and will check out the labor ratings of companies when making a large purchase. It is sometimes depressing but you can be happy about where your dollars go. And again, knowing who you buy from is the best way to do it, so local is the way to go.

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    I just think it's majorly ugly to see the same shit everywhere. That is one problem i have with the US. Everything's a damn chain. It hurts my eyes. I agree that buisness has the right to grow but can't they change up the names and logos and stuff.....It's so boring and monotonous.

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    The loss of the regional high end department stores is the the result of the Wal-Mart-isation of the US. Wal-Mart pressures supplyers to find the lowest cost, forcing them to move production overseas. The workers loose thier jobs and many end up in lower paying occupations. The result is fewer people who can afford the high end stores, and a boost in business for the low end stores (Wal-Mart).

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    Wal-mart is the debbil. I do not shop there...nor will I.

    Macy's bought out Chicago Marshall Fields, but Marshall Fields had already filed bankruptcy. So, it was either be bought out or close shop...not much choice there.

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    I hate big chains as much as the next person. And I don't shop at Wal-Mart and I usually try to be pretty conscious about where my dollar does go, but I think it is a little funny how people get emotional about these big department stores getting bought out. I mean they're just a business like any other and to feel emotionally invested in them only because they started in your town, or have a flagship, just seems sort of funny. They don't really do any amazing business practices or anything, or give great amounts back to the community.

    I would definately see the issue if they were buying out local businesses that are not competing in the same market of large chain department stores, but with them just buying up other chains - isn't it a bit like Subway taking over Quiznos? Or some other sandwich chain? It's not like a little local mom and pop deli or anything.

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    Shows how much I pay attention to upscale retail. I didn't even realize Macy's was taking over the department store market, but this monopolization is all part of a general trend, namely the fact that department stores in general are for most of us an obsolete retail model.

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    And if customers truly valued these stores, they'd still be doing a thriving business (perhaps even expanding).
    This has been an ongoing thing with retail for decades now, even streching back to the early part of last century. Department store chains which are now succumbing to big box chains were once the Goliaths that were putting Mom and Pop proprietorships out of business. People like to go with chains because they give customers some sense of familiarity and are able to be open at longer business hours. (Mom and Pop gotta go home to eat, sleep, and take care of their kids sometime). Big box stores came along later and simply improved the model.

    It does bear to mention, a big reason department stores (even ones in suburban shopping malls) are dying while big box stores are exploding comes down to simple accessibility and convienence. Most big box stores are one story, so you can park your car, walk into the store, grab a cart, get everything you need in the cart, check out, push your cart full of purchases back to your car, and leave the cart in a cart corral.

    Name me a department store (Kohl's notwithstanding) where you can do that. Many of them are multi-story, and you usually get from one floor to another via escalator. Shopping carts don't work on escalators. Escalators also require a lot of upkeep. In the case of the downtown stores, you also have parking issues to deal with. In short, you can effectively only purchase in one trip what you can carry in your hands.
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    I'm not a fan of Macy's either but it's more because of their lack of customer service. One day while in the fitting room at Macys one of the sales associates walked in and announced "be sure to put the merchandise back on the hangers and put it on the rolling rack as you leave the fitting room" WTF, and you're getting paid to do what?! And lets not forget the sales associates that act like they're doing you a favor by working their.

    I'm a devoted Nordstroms customer now. Their customer service is the best, they replaced a pair of 14k gold earrings for me on the spot after I had lost one, no questions asked. Nieman Marcus and Bloomingdales are tied for second.

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    I heart Nordstroms too. I can't help it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by southstbabe
    I'm not a fan of Macy's either but it's more because of their lack of customer service. One day while in the fitting room at Macys one of the sales associates walked in and announced "be sure to put the merchandise back on the hangers and put it on the rolling rack as you leave the fitting room" WTF, and you're getting paid to do what?! And lets not forget the sales associates that act like they're doing you a favor by working their.
    Tell me about it, I used to freakin work there!!!!!(and not by choice...no other place would hire me at the time ) At the Macy's I used to work at, there was this older kinda condescending woman named Jackie...she declined a customer from using a coupon that expired freakin ONE DAY BEFORE, and did so in a very snobby way! Most stores will honor coupons if they just expired, to show the extent of their "great customer service" so that the customers will appreciate it and keep returning to buy from them. But not Macy's! Jackie also argued with customers and she wasn't very nice to me either. :-( That, and Macy's had two obsessions...1, pressuring customers to apply for their stupid high-interest credit card; and 2, pressuring customers to write good reviews about the customer service on the fds.com website! They even gave out rewards and incentives if you got good reviews written on the website by customers. Even though I was a very friendly and attentive worker, and ALWAYS did as management instructed by asking each and every customer to log onto fds.com and write a good review about my service, no one ever did. :-( I guess they were too busy with their lives to care about writing me a good review. So after they fired me, I wrote 3 good reviews about myself and sent them to their website! HAHA! I used my friends' addresses and phone numbers so if Macy's called to check the validity of the reviews, my friends would have my back. I also called Jackie the condescending older woman a few times at work, pretending to be a customer looking for "Phillydancer," the helpful young girl that'd helped me on my most recent shopping trip. I guess you can tell that I was pretty bitter that Macy's fired me and wanted to show them that they'd lost a good employee...

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    Quote Originally Posted by doc-catfish
    This has been an ongoing thing with retail for decades now, even streching back to the early part of last century. Department store chains which are now succumbing to big box chains were once the Goliaths that were putting Mom and Pop proprietorships out of business. People like to go with chains because they give customers some sense of familiarity and are able to be open at longer business hours. (Mom and Pop gotta go home to eat, sleep, and take care of their kids sometime). Big box stores came along later and simply improved the model.

    It does bear to mention, a big reason department stores (even ones in suburban shopping malls) are dying while big box stores are exploding comes down to simple accessibility and convienence. Most big box stores are one story, so you can park your car, walk into the store, grab a cart, get everything you need in the cart, check out, push your cart full of purchases back to your car, and leave the cart in a cart corral.

    Name me a department store (Kohl's notwithstanding) where you can do that. Many of them are multi-story, and you usually get from one floor to another via escalator. Shopping carts don't work on escalators. Escalators also require a lot of upkeep. In the case of the downtown stores, you also have parking issues to deal with. In short, you can effectively only purchase in one trip what you can carry in your hands.
    Those are good points, however I have a few disagreements. OK first, a lot of department stores(Wanamakers and yes, even Macy's are a few examples) arose from "mom-n-pop" stores, back in the mid to late 1800s. It was their selection, unique marketing techniques, etc that led to their success and allowed them to expand their stores to eventually department stores.

    Department stores are not the only multilevel stores with escalators...I know of a nearby Target that has 2 or 3 stories, along with escalators. However, Target innovated its escalators so that it can carry shopping carts...which can easily allow someone to fill their cart to the brim and not have to worry about how they will get to the next floor. I think this is a good idea. I also like multilevel department stores better than one-level stores like most Wal-Marts. Not only do multilevel department stores look classier, but sometimes it is actually EASIER to shop in a store with elevators/escalators than a one-floor store! For example, what if I am tired from walking all day long, and I go to Wal-Mart to buy an item on the other side of the store from the front entrances? I'm stuck walking all that distance. Whereas if I go to S&C, I can simply take an elevator to say, the 7th floor and it saves me time and walking distance. Multilevel stores generally have smaller square footage on each floor, but have multiple floors with escalators and elevators to accomodate travel between these floors. Whereas one-floor stores have a much larger square footage spread throughout one floor. However, I think this theory depends on the opinion of the person involved(I prefer escalators to walking across the entire store).

    I hate Wal-Mart even more than Macy's, and as a result I boycott Wal-Mart, too. When I lived in lower Northeast Philly(a hood on the decline), there was a Wal-Mart nearby. It was so trashy! Tons of deadbeats, disobedient kids running around, noise, and even broken eggs! I don't consider it "convenient" when I'd go to buy eggs and EVERY SINGLE DOZEN OF EGGS in the case had broken eggs. I also don't consider it "one stop shopping" when I can't even buy any clothes at Wal-Mart because most of their clothes are middle-aged woman weekend wear CRAP. Wal-Mart was a big headache! Meanwhile, department stores have the same type of departments as Wal-Mart, except for the food/pantry department, but as I've already mentioned, Wal-Mart's food department is so dismal that it might as well be nonexistent anyway. Department stores had a few things that Wal-Marts don't...Christmas shows(such as the Christmas Carol puppet show at S&C, or the light show at Wanamakers), in-store restaurants(they served better food than the Pizza Hut pizza at Target's cafe that I vomitted from!), fine chocolates, collectibles(at age 8, I got my first porcelain doll from a Ports of the World department store), etc. Yes, the price was higher, but you were getting much better quality merchandise. As I said before, Wal-Mart's food/pantry and clothing departments are so shitty, that I ignore their very existence.

    I understand that people go to Wal-Mart because they think it is one-stop shopping, or the only store within their budget. But these people are too easily swayed by Wal-Mart's advertising to see otherwise. If you go to a JC Penneys or a Macy's, you can still find cheap clothing on the clearance rack for as much, if not less, than Wal-Mart clothes! Yes, sometimes department store clothes look very basic and cookie cutter, but Wal-Mart's look even more basic and cookie cutter. When I was younger, I used to laugh at my mom because she would shop $20 full-priced jeans at Wal-Mart and K-mart to save money, whereas meanwhile I was buying $40 pants marked down to like $9.99 or even as low as $2.99 at JC Penneys or Boscovs! It's all about clipping coupons, searching clearance racks, and knowing how to shop smartly. I don't think I'd ever shop at Wal-Mart!

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    One last note on this topic...The reason that so many people get loyal and emotionally attached to department stores, is because these stores represent a good amount of local history and nostalgia. For example, Wanamakers was THE oldest department store in the country. Not to mention that its flagship store in center Philly had some of the most amazing architecture and decor that I've ever seen before in any retail store. As a result, this store was featured in the movie Mannequin and Mannequin's sequel in the 1980s. These things contributed to our pride for our city of Philly. Not to mention that I grew up watching the movie Mannequin, and I visited Wanamakers at Christmastime when I was a small child! Nobody likes to see childhood memories/nostalgia vanish away. Luckily, the historic Wanamakers building is still being run as a retail store(but now it's Macys). However, I cannot say the same about the Strawbridge & Clothier building...or the old Gimbels building that got partly demolished after its closing in the 1980s(now lies a big empty hole that no one ever gets around to doing anything with; was this really better than keeping the building??).

    Nostalgia and old-time memories are a reason that sometimes things get recreated again. Why do you think Philly brought back the old-school green and brown trolleys for their transit route #15? Why do you think record companies produce so many "The Best of..." albums for great bands like Pink Floyd, The Who, Barbara Streisand, etc? Why do you think classic movies such as Grease or Disney's Peter Pan get brought back to theaters with a digitally remastered version about every 20-30yrs or so? We grew up with this stuff being a part of our daily lives, and we like to relive the good old times. It gives us a sense of security, especially in a changing time where some things don't seem to be changing for the better(such as the direction of our government, for starters).

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    I *used* to like the Wal-Mart in my area, but recently they remodeled and it seems that most of the shelves are empty now. I went in the other day looking for bedding for my stepson's room and couldn't even find anything in twin size for boys or even in neutral colors.

    We have a chain here in the Northwest called Fred Meyer. It is a bit more expensive than Wal-Mart, but the quality is so much better. They had the "One Stop Shopping" model back in the 50's and 60's including hardware, groceries and clothing all in one store.

    Fred Meyer is a big corporation owned by Kroger, now. They have managed to retain the feel and shopping expierence of the original Fred Meyer stores. The quality of the merchadise varies depending on the location of the store. They have done a good job at working the demographic and providing merchandise that would appeal to a particular neighborhood.

    I've been in very upscale versions of Fred Meyer and more inner city versions as well.

    Unfortunately, Wal-Mart seems to hawk the same crap to all demographics.


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    What can you do? Most middle class people flee further and further out to the country where there are specialty stores. I used to spend the whole damn day goin from the Bourse to the Gallery to Wanamaker's to Bonwit Teller--Jaysus! You're too tired. In the burbs you jump in the car and roll from spot to spot.

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    I think a decent portion of inner city department stores' customers are out-of-town tourists. For example, if I traveled to Chicago, I'd want to check out the historic flagship Marshall Fields store because it would represent a piece of Chicago and it would be different than the stores back home. I think another portion of inner city department stores' customers are old folk locals that have grown up shopping at that department store and have become very loyal to it over the years(I've noticed that old people tend to commit to certain stores LOL). Yes, it is true that center city shopping can be exhausting when you are going from store to store and the stores are spaced out over a number of blocks. Maybe I am different than most shoppers...when I go to a department store to shop, I tend to make my shopping selections based on what merchandise they have available. If I don't find anything at all that seems remotely right, ok then I will explore other stores. For example, I tend to like the selection and sales that Boscov's offers. I also have a credit card with them that allows me to receive good discounts periodically, allows me to pay off my balances over time, and gives me 0% interest until the end of the Christmas season. So when I need new work clothes for my office job, Boscov's is the first store that I think of hitting, because of my good past experiences and the discounts I get for being a credit card carrier. I shop at Boscov's probably more than any other store lately, or at least for work/career clothes. I'm the type of person who chooses a store and sticks with it; but then again, I also tend to do the same thing with types of cars, foods, types of guys, etc. (Maybe it is just me?)

    As far as Macy's...I'm not shopping there for several reasons. Even when I was a freakin employee, Macy's turned down my credit card app(yes, it was Macy's fault; until this past year, all Federated store credit cards were run by Federated's very own bank). That didn't make me feel too good about how Macy's appreciated me as a customer, and it also meant that I wouldn't be able to "buy now, pay later" or get any of the sales that were exclusive to only Macy's cardholders. Also, their juniors department used to carry cool brands like Calvin Klein and Guess, but now carry dumb wigger brands like Ecko(sorry, not my style). I went into Macy's the other day as a riot, and I only saw one single pair of shoes in their womens shoe department that I liked...it was a pair of Coach slip-ons with orange trim and lace-up front, a pair of shoes that most people would not be "daring" enough to wear. They costed $128, a price tag that I'M not "daring" enough to buy. All of their other shoes were garbage! Yeah not all of Boscov's clothing is top-notch either, but they carry some things that Macy's doesn't, I have their credit card, and on top of that they are local(from Reading, PA) so I am glad to support a somewhat local chain.

    Paris, your city's chain sounds like a good store. More power to them. Target is a pretty good store too, although they treat their employees like total shit(I used to work there and they kept fucking with my schedule on nights of college finals). Boscov's is a good store too, except that they aren't the most upscale chain and their interior hasn't been updated much at all since 1988...but because I'm all about nostalgia, I kinda like that about them. Hopefully more chains will pop up so that Macy's will soon have some nasty competition!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhillyDancer1982

    As far as Macy's...I'm not shopping there for several reasons....... Also, their juniors department used to carry cool brands like Calvin Klein and Guess, but now carry dumb wigger brands like Ecko(sorry, not my style).
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    Eh. Its been a long time since I've shopped in department store. If I had the option of doing so now, I'd still go to the same stores I did when I was little.... Macy's, Saks, Lord & Taylor, and Nordstroms. I've never had problems with the quality of Macy's stores or the merchandise. Takeovers happen. I still see a lot of smaller department stores around... Pennies, Sears, we also have some local ones here in Florida. I personally dont like their quality as much.
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    I know i feel the same way. I love, love, loved Burdine's 'The Florida Store." But alas it is no more. sad.
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