Posted on 02/19/2025 10:22:33 AM PST by DallasBiff
After more than 100 years in business, the flagship Neiman Marcus store in Downtown Dallas is closing.
News of the closure broke Tuesday when the company’s new owners announced they were being forced to close the landmark location.
Saks Global acquired the Dallas-based luxury brand last year.
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Retail during my life time,
Big downtown department stores were kings,
then the malls came along and dethroned them,
and then came Amazon and online shopping.
I guess they will turn the Neiman-Marcus building into condos.
I’ve been in that store, I saw a nice hobby horse for a kid that would be about $6,000 in today’s dollars.
was always fun to go in there to see what morons with too much money waste it on.
“I guess they will turn the Neiman-Marcus building into condos.”
Got to have somewhere to house the coastal migrants.
I remember when the NM Christmas catalog would come out and we’d get to see what ultra-wacky super-expensive stuff they’d have that year. I think I remember one year when they had a personal submarine for sale.
Major drop in quality over the years. They now sell cheaply made imported clothing from China, marked up as if it were still top quality. A business model that was destined to fail. They rode as long as they could on the brand name alone, while offering an inferior product. Adios, Neimans!
That’s why it was called “Needless Markup”
Wow
I use to take girlfriends shopping there.
Big downtown department stores were kings,
Haven’t been to a mall in years.
They have a “Dead Malls” channel on YouTube, it’s really depressing to watch.
$500 plain white T-shirts with not even a brand name showing, crazy crap like that.
I am surprised.
Surprised it is still there in 2025, heh.
Dim memories of taking the bus from Casa View area to the downtown NM with my Mammaw. Downtown Dallas was kinda spooky to me at five yrs old - crowded, noisy, strange.
Hudson’s Department Store - Detroit
https://www.historicdetroit.org/buildings/hudsons-department-store
I met Stanley Marcus at one of the NM Fortnights back in the 70’s. For me, there were only two real NM locations - downtown and Northpark, all the others were just imitations. Sad to hear not not a total shock.
I’ve seen the same changes in my lifetime. I grew up in Ithaca, NY and went to junior high school in Fayetteville, NY near Syracuse. I remember fun and exciting shopping trips for new school clothes with mom and my sisters to downtown Ithaca and downtown Syracuse. There were no suburban shopping center malls in those days!
In Ithaca, the first big mall was built next to our subdivision. I remember that as an exciting event at the time. Their anchor tenant was a discount department store called “Jamesway” which is akin to K-Mart today. They went out of business in 1995 after filing for bankruptcy twice.
That’s around the time the Ben Franklin stores peaked, too. Remember the “Five and Dime” stores? Woolworths, Ben Franklin, Kresge (turned into K-Mart), Grants.
I think 1995 was too early for the internet and Amazon to have killed Jamesway. So it just shows the dynamism of American retail.
I sure like Amazon. About every product under the sun, click-click-click, and it’s on my front porch 6 to 24 hours later. No driving all over town wasting hours and gas.
In Spain, they have El Corte Inglés.
I wondered who had all the money, so it’s morons?
Sad!
We don’t use Amazon since thieves hacked our account and stole big bucks!
I was disappointed about tearing down our largest mall.
We spent a lot of time there during the 80s girl watching.
The neighborhood went bad as they always do.
I really hoped the city could repurpose the mall into a neighborhood prison where people could check in for several days and credit the time to their next sentence.
Kind of like Otis from the Andy Griffith Show.
No need to waste a building that brought fond memories.
sometimes morons get lucky and have worthless land where oil is found, and they spend it poorly.
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