Macy's cuts ties with Trump over Mexican immigration comments

Los Angeles Times ^ | July 1, 2015 | By Stephen Battaglio

[Brad from Tennessee]

Macy's is joining the line of companies cutting ties with Donald Trump over the real estate mogul's comments about Mexican immigrants.

In this case, it's neckties. The retailer has marketed a line of menswear with the Trump label since 2004. But in a statement issued Wednesday, Macy's said it was "disappointed and distressed" over Trump's June 16 remarks regarding U.S. immigration policy in which he made derogatory remarks about Mexicans. He said Mexican immigrants were bringing drug and crime into the U.S.

"We have no tolerance for discrimination in any form," Macy's said in a statement.

Trump made the comments at the kickoff of his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and has been taking heat ever since.

Trump has already lost business from Univision, which will not air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants. NBC, Trump's partners in the pageants, has also announced it will sever ties with Trump, and will keep him off his hit reality show "Celebrity Apprentice." Mexican TV companies Televisa and TV Ora have also parted ways with Trump.

The move by Macy's is a sign that the Trump brand name, a major source of income for the billionaire, is becoming tarnished as a result of the controversy.

The ties and shirts in the Trump line were still on the Macy's website Wednesday at discounted prices. . .

[Desron13]

""We have no tolerance for discrimination in any form," Macy's said in a statement."

Yes! If you discriminate against our glorious plans we will not tolerate it. Actually we'll eventually send our goons around to beat the crap out of you. I believe you know what comes next if that doesn't work.

Oh my, is that the distant tinkle of the leper's bell of the approaching looters I hear?

[Nowhere Man]

I bet you hear complaints all the time, and I’m sure most of them are not the fault of the sales associates..I’m sorry if I sound angry at the staff. I’m not!! Most of the people who work at my local store are nice, and helpful, too..but I do wonder what’s wrong with upper management that they make it so difficult to shop there!!

No offense taken. I hear it all the time. We can't keep people and more is being piled on the skeleton crew left, morale is a bit down right now. I ran into one of my managers who left for another job and he was burned out from it. One of my coworkers, it is so bad that when she ran into one of her customers on her day off in s Home Depot, the customer complained that she wasn't at Macy's. There are times, I have to cover half a floor or menswear and china/housewares. I even get pulled by customers to ring out at a vacant register when making a bathroom trip. It was so bad that a couple of times I had to run the register in intimates and bras. We try our best but it is so bad we have to fold, size and restock items, pull stuff for internet orders in addition to ringing out and helping customers. We used to have separate teams for that.