Any information on furniture logistics layoffs? I can personally attest that our furniture sales are a fragment of what Macy's has sold from the last several years prior. Everyone I work with is getting mad and frustrated at shorter hours, less pay... — read more 

Just got through a town hall they are cutting a lot of high senior leadership positions. For now it is not effecting associates but we know everything has a trickle down effect on the rest of us.

More layoffs have been announced, this time in merchandising operations. Well, let me rephrase that, not layoffs, restructuring. It's their favorite new word for when they want to cut people without actually outright saying layoffs. Numbers are... — read more 

During a recent regional visit the boss discussed how the company will be closing another 100 stores. She explained that in order to stay competitive we need to shrink our brick and mortar footprint to a level appropriate for the evolving market... — read more 

the reductions are: Fitting Room Recovery: Reduction in workforce for select locations Wedding Gift Registry: Reduction in workforce for select locations Cosmetic Associates: Reduction in workforce for select locations Fragrance Associates: Reduction... — read more 

I don't understand why Macys has the time to write emails about political bull... no sh-- Jeff that you Don't support Nazi's and the crap that happened there. They sit and waste time chatting about that crap up on the ivory tower while we report our... — read more 

Not sure on timing but in next few weeks. Company is eliminating all fitting room recovery teams. They’ll be offered severance from what I heard this morning. Timing depends on any other cuts they are still deciding on.

Well it looks like store closures are gossip.. what the hell.. earnings are out and stock is dropping.. what is this company doing..

Who else thinks that announcement is going to be a blood bath?

as somebody mentioned before, the woodbridge store in nj has a checkout area. they have removed all the registers from the departments except jewelry, cosmetics, shoes and have a large checkout area on each floor. if a customer is looking for an... — read more 

If you are in a large market or do not visit other stores this may come as a suprise. we have hundreds of run down small stores that we need to close. Hasn't seen remodel or basic updates in decades, large areas and entire floors drapped off with... — read more 

Get rid of the layers of district managers doing nothing but micromanaging the sales managers. We do not need a district mgr to do our floor plans. We have the same information and can walk the floor with vpsm and mom like they do. The vpsm can hold... — read more 

Whole department got let go yesterday at the corporate office in Springdale, Ohio. Over 30 people told at the end of the day that their jobs have been eliminated. About 17 news jobs will be created that they can apply for. Sad day and more to come...

Honestly it's the same way how associates are being treated in our stores and in our call centers. I worked in both. After almost 10 years in the call center and a year in the store. I finally quit 3 months ago, and I'm happy. I hear from people that... — read more 

Macys used to be a great place to work. I think the down spiral started when their HR became robotic and they introduced a district team of executives. They just don't listen to anyone in store level. Associates are afraid to voice their opinions and... — read more 

15 years later meetings for My MACYS is the same conversations in the Southeast. More color, more fashion, extended sizes, more Adidas, more kids uniforms, larger quantities on fragrance launches, larger distortion in pearls. Macys goes thru the... — read more 

I don't understand why schedules are so bad. I'm not a negative person and feel like business is all about the bottom line. But how is it ok that i'm scheduled to close at 10:15 on a Friday night and open at 8:15 Saturday. There are plenty of other... — read more 

I really question if we will close anymore store this year. For fear our stock will drop further. I agree at the end of q2 an announcement will be made but it will only be about how many stores we will close at the start of 2018. I tend to agree with... — read more 

Hearing from several sources (higher up than me), that something is coming August week 1. Has anyone heard anything? I asked if further staffing reductions or store closure announcements? My main source said that she did not know, but knows something... — read more 

The second quarter ends at the end of July. We will all see what Jeff has to say then. He is the one driving the boat. He will do whatever it takes to keep the company afloat. If he has to sell some stores, he will do that. If he has to close stores... — read more 

What are we delaying. I feel at every first of the month we hear rumors store closures and then nothing happens. We are constantly waiting for the other foot to drop. It's truly hurting store environment and morale. For god sakes do it already. Does... — read more 

Couldn't really watch the fireworks and feel good when you see all that money going up in flames, knowing how bad the company needs it. I guess if you are having money troubles, you might as well look good while the ship is sinking? I hope the... — read more 

Another staff cut? I don't believe that they can't see how bad it is, they literally loose a dollar to save a dime. And I am convinced that someone there up is hurting Macy's on purpose. All these severe cuts of great employees, ridiculous new My... — read more 

Stores are going to having their schedules managed by a District MyShop Execution Team (DMET)...this is part of the reason for the AST cuts in the spring and now again at the end of this month. They do all the scheduling and the edits. We rolled it... — read more 

I am an AST associate and really skeptical at how the office will be effective because the cuts are so severe. We were already challenged after the first cut, now it will be nearly impossible to complete tasks that are required of us. We'll do our... — read more 

Our Macy's closed the doors at Silver City Galleria this March. It was a very sad event for all of us, many worked here very long time. I am still angry because I would've stayed till retirement. Its all on-line shoppers now. You will see no more... — read more 

System says update is coming soon no ETA? Its July and we still don't have nor do we know what were being reviewed on? Seems odd

Well, insite tells me I should be happy that my store is in some pilot program for the introduction of backstage merch. This is the obvious precursor to my store getting a full on Backstage. And I'm in a flagship store in a nicer mall in the... — read more 

I had a manager for over 3 years who berated, exploded and criticized me to my face and behind my back to others. There was quite a list of names of associates in the store who had similar experiences. I finally had enough and emailed the HR Manager... — read more 

Ten years with Macy's. I have more than 50 years experience in Retail Sales. Before Macy's I worked for 2 other major retailers. It started off to be a great store and company to work for. However what I observed was too many changes done too... — read more 

73.80 was stock price not so long ago. Today stock price 22.50. If this is not a warning to bail out before they file bankruptcy again so be it

A few years ago an AST supervisor went into the United Way website and made pledges under the Sales Managers ID Numbers. She was suspended for a week then promoted to the DiRECTOR of stores Administrative Assistant for The Southeast and Northwest... — read more 

Can't lay any more off in Alton, Illinois. They closed our store. So many stores closings, you can see it here and you see what people say. 100s if not 1000s of people. I worked there for 11 years, many people spent decades working and lost jobs... — read more 

My store in West Lansing closed in March. I'm still not over it. I was there for 15 years. so many memories, so many friends. I'm still having a hard time getting over it. The end of my Macy's was a long sorrowful journey!

Does anyone know if Managers/Supervisors get incentives or Money when an associate opens a Macy's Card?Whenever I get a loyalty (Macy's card signup) my manager is overly excited not to mention always bugging me everyday, so much to the point I'm... — read more 

Aside from rampant store closures and to be honest a very confusing strategy on how we'll survive the retail slump we should worry about much more pressing issues - we are simply over worked while receiving low pay.... Dealing with an extremely... — read more 

it'd be nice if we can use the money we are saving from closing stores to staff our stores better. If we are going to have a ONE DAY sale spread out over three days maybe we should staff Thursday just as good as the Saturday. And we wonder why... — read more 

Too many associates have proven to be nonconformist. The problem is, with the downturn in the quality of SM, how do we show appropriate behavior? And when the SM herd is thinned, then where will we be? The only thing considered is cost cutting. There... — read more 

I do not understand this company!!! I would think with all the turnover in the stores from SM's down, they would try to retain the best associates. last year, learning and development laid out a brand new training pieces for new hires. it designed to... — read more