Macy’s Closing 125 Stores; None In Texas

NEW YORK (AP) – Macy’s says it is closing 125 of its least productive stores and cutting 2,000 corporate jobs as the struggling department store tries to reinvent itself in the age of online shopping. The store closures represent about one fifth of Macy’s current total. It didn’t specify how many jobs would be lost at the shuttered stores. The corporate jobs will be shed as Macy’s closes its offices in Cincinnati and San Francisco, leaving New York as its sole corporate headquarters. The moves announced Tuesday come ahead of Macy’s annual investor meeting where CEO Jeff Gennette is expected to unveil a three-year reinvention plan.  No Texas stores will be closed.  In fact, the company will open a new “flexible retail store format” at Southlake Town Square Mall on Thursday.  The 20,000-foot store called “Market by Macy’s” is a tenth of the size of a regular store.