Back in February, American department store chain Macy’s announced it would be closing 150 stores as it plans on shifting its priority toward the marketing of its luxury items. It plans to close its ...

Can department stores evolve enough to regain relevance? It might take more than the magic of Macy’s. The reason could be encapsulated in one sobering sentence by Macy’s CEO Tony Spring: The chain had ...

Decades after closing down hundreds of stores, online posts have again suggested a potential return for Ames Department Stores, despite previous speculation that failed to materialize. A message on a ...

After successfully disrupting online shopping, convenience stores, bookstores, grocery stores and more, Amazon has its eyes set on a new target: department stores. Amazon is soon expected to open a ...

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Macy’s announcement Tuesday that it will close 150 stores, or nearly a third of its total, is the result of a once-great department store industry in decades of decline. The gradual demise of the ...

In the era of online shopping, department stores are but a hazy memory of a bygone era. Even with all the convenience Amazon offers, it’s hard not to feel like we’ve lost something—especially the ...

Department stores are aging — and so are their customers. For over a century, the stores won over multiple generations with a promise to sell shoppers a wide variety of everything. For many Millennial ...

The heyday is over. The question for department stores now is whether there will be a new day. Certainly, the pandemic has made that already sticky question all the more difficult to answer. But many ...

A common question for the fashionably curious is where do the world’s wealthy go for their preferred shopping experience? Sure, even the wealthy may splurge at Costco, or walk into Target with rewards ...

Big department-store chains from JCPenney to Macy’s are unloading their properties as fast as they can. Dillard’s is buying real estate. The department-store chain this month purchased the Longview ...

Once upon a time, we went to department stores and malls to get our clothes, music, toys, even lunch. Do you remember these ...