Posted on 02/27/2024 9:08:48 PM PST by buwaya
Add Macy’s to the long list of Union Square retail stores that have closed recently — the department store announced this week that it would close 150 locations in the coming years, including its flagship store in San Francisco.
I have said many times over the last couple of years that I expected this. I was there last year and it seemed in an awful state, no shoppers and little merchandise.
This was a very large Macys, six floors, a basement, and even a second building.
Headline is a bit off. Should be “Macy’s TO shutter Union Square location,” as store is slated to close in 2025. In any case, though, this may be the TKO punch to a downtown SF shopping district that was already on the ropes.
we’ve visited there, it is a HUGE store
and very attractive too.
it is just so sad it is surrounded by drunks, druggies, beggars, and filth on the sidewalks
and
the shoplifting in SF is totally out of control
plus of course they are stuck paying super inflated costs including taxes up the kazoo
It appears that even the biggest and “best” stores just can’t handle trying to do biz in Californication anymore
the local drugstores are closing there too, meanwhile those that are still open are barricading all sorts of merchandise behind locked cabinets, trying to protect some of their inventory from the robbers that enter both individually and in big organized gangs to steal them blind
Wow…I guess this is the Macy’s that has (or had) a Cheesecake Factory above it?
That’s a nice Macy’s - or it was. And my friend wanted to go to the Cheesecake Factory on top of it for some reason, so we did.
When I was a real little kid, we were stationed at Alameda Naval Air Station and my parents had fond memories of day trips, restaurants and shows in San Francisco.
They wouldn’t recognize it today. :(
Do you ever go to the park in the middle of Union square with the trumpet flowers?
I live in Glendale, Ca., and the local supermarkets have
placed all sorts of things behind lock and key. If you
want razor blades, you have to have the manager get them
out of the lock-up.
Our society is cratering, just like Soros and the Marxists
have dreamed of.
If the U. S. goes, the WEF is god on Earth.
Oh the Cheesecake Factory is really high up like the top floor or the second highest floor.
Many parts of San Francisco still look fine. I was up there a few times in the last year.
Yes, and there’s an outdoor terrace up there by the bar. We went out there and the view was beautiful. It was at night.
Good point. I took the headline from the NR post.
I used to go there all the time. I worked nearby.
We used to take the kids to movies at Westfield and shop in the area. Every year at Christmas they would set up a skating rink on Union square. Very lovely and gracious.
A whole way of life is going away, the best urban life available in the US.
A sad announcement. Shortly after the war, my Army combat veteran father, age 24 and already a major by virtue of multiple battlefield promotions, was stationed at The Presidio in San Francisco. My mother, age 18, found employment as a dress model at the O’Connor, Moffat & Co. department store, which was soon to be acquired by Macy’s and become the anchor for its West coast operations. My father was handsome, and my mother had movie star good looks and was ideal for the modeling job. It was a storybook posting for the newlyweds, and they recalled the experience with fondness in later years.
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Blame Gov. Greaseball Newsom for this and for the destruction of San Francisco as its former mayor. He now is destroying California as governor, and wants to do the same to America as Biden’s replacement.
“Our society is cratering, just like Soros and the Marxists
have dreamed of.
If the U. S. goes, the WEF is god on Earth”.
If they haven’t already done so, everyone must hunker down into survival mode.
The thing is Newsom began as a “pro-business” candidate, a conservative by San Francisco standards. He was a good Catholic schoolboy, Notre Dame des Victoires and Santa Clara, was a protege of the Getty’s, had his own successful restaurant business, etc. He was a solid choice, among the usual SF political rabble, or so it seemed.
But then he started moving far left in office. Maybe it was pure ambition, maybe it was because he was a child of divorce. In any case he is what he now is.
What if the voters are ok with it come November? I think they just might.
very sad....all our memories of the way life used to be...our traditions all going down the tubes....
I have to wonder that beyond being purposeful to let the cities be ransacked, perhaps the big goal is for all these properties to drop severely in price so the likes of buffet can come in and buy it all up..
The WEF is losing. What’s happened in SF, like in so many other things, is an “unforeseen consequence” of many linked policies that they supported.
These people have way more to lose than the masses. They owned the now-empty SF downtown (as also so much else), directly or indirectly. They are trying to avoid recognizing these losses, but they will have to, eventually.
Yes, Cheesecake Factory on 8th floor of Macy’s
Nice in the store
Yes, drug store even had gum locked up. Funny though. They have tripled the prices on almost all soap detergent shampoo etc. But the $20 little ones were
Locked up while the 35$ ones right next to them were open shelved. Store said they expect everything will get locked up soon didn’t bother selecting the most valuable merch to lock up right now.
Yes. Who said it? “You can’t go home again”
Well SF was home, to us, and in so many ways its no longer there.
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