Macy’s Store Closing List Following News of Macy’s Cuts and Re-Structuring Strategy

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Macy's Woodfield at Woodfield Mall Summer of 2019
Macy's Woodfield at Woodfield Mall Summer of 2019.

Macy’s announced Tuesday February 4, 2020 that it will shut 125 stores over the next three years and cut about 2,000 corporate jobs (9% of Macy’s workforce). The 125 stores now planned for closure, which include the roughly 30 it already announced, account for approximately $1.4 billion in annual sales.

Woodfield Mall Macy’s survives; see stores closing and Macy’s and Marshall Field’s history at the end of this article.

Macy’s said it plans to exit weaker shopping malls (lower-tier malls), and shift focus to smaller-format stores in strip centers. Macy’s reported it will reinvest some of these savings back into its business, with a focus on growing its off-price business, known as Backstage. Macy’s also plans to expand outside the mall and improve online sales.

The two Illinois stores set for closure are in Carbondale (University Mall) and West Dundee (Spring Hill Mall). The state with the most closures is Florida with four: Miami (The Falls Mall), Pompano Beach (Pompano Citi Centre), Sanford (Seminole Towne Center), and Vero Beach (Indian River Mall).




Macy’s is closing tech offices in San Francisco and at the Cincinnati headquarters, and is consolidating tech operations in New York and Atlanta. Macy’s is also closing its headquarters in downtown Cincinnati, and an office in Lorain, Ohio, and will establish its headquarters in New York.

Macy’s closed 40 stores in 2016.

Beginning in 2020, it said Macy’s expects to generate annual gross savings of about $1.5 billion, which will be fully realized by the end of 2022. In 2020, Macy’s is anticipating gross savings of about $600 million, “some of which will flow to the bottom line in order to stabilize operating margin.”

“We are taking the organization through significant structural change to lower costs, bring teams closer together and reduce duplicative work. The changes we are making are deep and impact every area of the business, but they are necessary. I know we will come out of this transition stronger, more agile and better fit to compete in today’s retail environment.”

— Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette

Macy’s shares were recently down more than 3%, after initially jumping more than 3% on the news. Macy’s stock, which is valued at more than $5 billion, has fallen more than 35% over the past 12 months.

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Macy's Woodfield at Woodfield Mall Summer of 2019
Macy’s Woodfield at Woodfield Mall Summer of 2019.




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Macy’s Store Closings 2020

Macy’s store closures beginning in 2020:

California
Antioch: Somersville Towne Center

San Diego: Horton Plaza Park

Connecticut
Meriden: Westfield Meriden

Florida
Miami: The Falls Mall

Pompano Beach: Pompano Citi Centre

Sanford: Seminole Towne Center

Vero Beach: Indian River Mall

Georgia
Decatur: The Gallery at South DeKalb

Macon: Macon Mall

Hawaii
Waikoloa Village: Kings’ Shops

Idaho
Lewiston: Lewiston Center Mall

Illinois
Carbondale: University Mall

West Dundee: Spring Hill Mall

Indiana
Muncie: Muncie Mall

Kansas
Prairie Village

Kentucky
Owensboro: Towne Square Mall

Maryland
Salisbury: The Centre at Salisbury

Massachusetts
Leominster: The Mall at Whitney Field

Montana
Helena: Helena Northside Center

New York
Commack

Hicksville: Broadway Commons

North Carolina
Winston-Salem: Hanes Mall

Ohio
Cincinnati: Northgate Mall

St. Clairsville: Ohio Valley Mall

Stow: Stow-Kent Plaza

Pennsylvania
Harrisburg: Harrisburg East Mall

State College: Nittany Mall

Tennessee
Goodlettsville: RiverGate Mall

Washington
Burlington: Cascade Mall

Seattle: Downtown

Walla Walla: Downtown

Macy’s Back in Time …

In Chicagoland, Macy’s is especially connected with memories of Marshall Field’s. Macy’s was founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. Marshall Field’s (officially Marshall Field & Company) was a department store in Chicago, Illinois founded in 1852 by Marshall Field — an American entrepreneur. Macy’s and Marshall Field’s have histories in parallel.

Marshall Field’s expanded from the downtown Chicago store to the suburbs and other states in the 50s, 60s and 70s, but expansion slowed down in the 80s. Marshall Field’s opened at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg in 1971.

B.A.T. British-American Tobacco purchased Marshall Field & Company, ending the publicly traded entity Marshall Field & Company in 1982; but the Marshall Field’s name was kept alive. A U.S. division of B.A.T. was formed and named BATUS or Batus, Inc., which also acquired Saks Fifth Avenue from 1973 to 1990; and had a controlling interest in Kohl’s starting in 1972 before Kohl’s went public in 1992.

Macy’s became a division of Federated Department Stores in 1994, keeping the Macy’s name. Federated Department Stores was initially an American holding company founded by Xavier Warren in 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Many years later Federated Department Stores would rename itself Macy’s, Inc.




Dayton-Hudson Corporation (soon to be renamed Target Corporation) acquired Marshall Field’s in 1990 from BATUS. Dayton-Hudson Corporation renamed itself Target Corporation in 2000. Then Target Corporation renamed their Dayton’s and Hudson’s department stores Marshall Field’s in 2001.

Marshall Field’s was purchased by another retail player, May Department Stores (the May Company), from Target Corporation in 2004 (May Department Stores was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, and moved to St. Louis in 1905).

On February 28, 2005, Federated Department Stores (soon to be renamed Macy’s) agreed to terms of a deal to acquire the May Department Stores Company for $11 billion.

The former flagship Marshall Field and Company Building located on State Street between Randolph Street and Washington Street in downtown Chicago was officially renamed Macy’s in 2006 and is currently one of four Macy’s flagship stores. Other Marshall Field’s stores, including the Woodfield Mall store, were also renamed Macy’s.

Federated Department Stores renamed itself to Macy’s Inc. in 2007. Subsidiaries of Macy’s Inc. currently include the American luxury department store Bloomingdales and bluemercury — an American chain of beauty stores.

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