Justine Griffin/Tampa Bay Times – A decade ago, the country’s largest department store chain was announcing new store openings, not closings. Macy’s grew fast — from 2005 to 2006, the chain nearly doubled in size to 850 stores across the country. But two years later, the retailer’s grip on the American department store business would begin […]

Blanca Torres/San Francisco Business Times – Macy’s plans to sell and close its Men’s Store in San Francisco’s Union Square as part of a broader effort to streamline the retail giant’s brick and mortar presence. The company announced Thursday it plans to close 100 stores and is in negotiations to sell the 263,640-square-foot San Francisco men’s […]

Jay Barmann/SFist.com – Among the 100 Macy’s stores that are set to close, as the retail giant announced today, will be the hulking, nearly windowless men’s store across the street from their Union Square flagship, at 120 Stockton Street. The SF Business Times picks up this detail, which was also caught by Curbed, reporting that the 263,640-square-foot store […]