Macy's 2022 ?
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Are you asking if there be a Lionel Macy's boxcar this year? Keep checking the Macy's site. They haven't done one in a couple of years
Nope. Not going to happen. Macy's "downsized" the manager who used to order them, and hired 3 nitwits to take his place.
Macy's HSQ has made a deal with Toys R Us to have a toy department on the 7th floor. No Lionel products.
@BMT-Express posted:Macy's "downsized" the manager who used to order them, and hired 3 nitwits to take his place.
Insider info? Or, were the details of the downsizing published?
Mike
Insider. Buyer has been gone since before CV19.
Have about eight of them. Last few years were very disappointing.
Maybe they'll do a 100th anniversary parade in what, four years?
Macy's has really gone downhill the last few years, In my opinion. Went there for the first time since before CV19, and the place was dirty, not well stocked, my better half complained that the women's section had nothing but cheap clothing a half her age woman wouldn't be caught dead in, and they had a sort of dollar store area that was just embarrassing. I guess the big guys all made their money during the merger/takeover craze, ducked out, and the rest forgot they have a store to run. The mall itself was half shuttered, and there didn't seem to be a lot of upkeep going on. Very sad.
And then they wonder why the big "A" is taking all their business.
@Rich in NOVA posted:Very sad.
And then they wonder why the big "A" is taking all their business.
Rich,
It is indeed but ...
Thanks for being positive for a struggling retailer. In case it's not obvious, malls and stores within them are closing everywhere, BECAUSE the big A has taken all their business. At this point we're long past the big department stores doing anything to turn it around.
Back in the day shopping use to be a get-out-of-the-house event, part utility, part entertainment. In the last 30 years that has changed dramatically.
BTW - If you could point out a single mall or department store anywhere in the U.S. that has been beating the big A at this game then I might agree with you about Macy's. Unfortunately, there are none, and that is what's truly sad.
Mike
Here in Northern Virginia, they've torn down one mall, and the other large mall is on life support.
I do try and shop local, but malls are nothing but chains anyway, add to that the lousy service, unclean stores, half closed corridors, you get the idea. At least around here, there are no idealistic main streetas like you find in Hallmark movies!
To bring ths back on target, I would love to see Macy's do a boxcar for the 100th anniversary of the parade.
I'm really dense, or a live in the outer somewhere beyond nowhere; "big A" ???? more info please
@Post Office Pete posted:Macy's 2022 ?
Yes, Macy’s is still having a Thanksgiving Day Parade this year.
@cta4391 posted:Yes, Macy’s is still having a Thanksgiving Day Parade this year.
We were specifically talking about the Lionel parade boxcar that Macy's puts out periodically, not the parade itself! 
“DIf you could point out a single mall or department store anywhere in the U.S. that has been beating the big A at this game”
Target ?
@Rich in NOVA posted:Have about eight of them. Last few years were very disappointing.
Maybe they'll do a 100th anniversary parade in what, four years?
Rich, you are correct about the final few of them being a big disappointment. The ones with the parade graphics were the very best! I think the worst one was the one in brown paint. Plus, it had that pebbled surface, apparently painted by a paint jet printer, or whatever they call them.
@train steve posted:“DIf you could point out a single mall or department store anywhere in the U.S. that has been beating the big A at this game”
Target ?
Steve,
That's an excellent guess, however Target is technically a discount store and not a department store.
Here's where Target is interesting. It was started, and owned in its early years, in Minneapolis, by Dayton's which was a formal department store chain. Dayton's then merged with J.L. Hudson which was in Detroit, and which was also a department store chain.
It gets better. Dayton's and Hudson's were later bought by Marshall Fields of Chicago, also a department store chain, which was most recently bought by?
You guessed it: Macy's.
Mike
@Rich in NOVA posted:We were specifically talking about the Lionel parade boxcar that Macy's puts out periodically, not the parade itself!
I don’t know what the OP was asking about. He posted two words identically in the title and the body text: Macy’s 2022? Frankly, he made no effort to focus this thread and has not responded.
So, it’s not surprising this thread has rambled in different directions.
