Comments on: Scraping on State Street: A Year of Macy’s

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By: CHICAGO CARLESS

CHICAGO CARLESS — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:16:42 +0000

10 More Things Brendan Reilly Should Stick in a Cave

(Photo: Alderman Brendan Reilly, a man willing to get to the bottom of the Second City.) Of all things I thought 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly would offer as a compromise in the ongoing controversy over the Chicago Children’s…

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:02:37 +0000

Good post. Just one caveat — real Chicagoans don’t say Chi-town. It marks you as either “not-from-here” or a suburbanite.

By: James Miller

James Miller — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:07:24 +0000

The fact is that Macy’s has given its best shot at getting Chicagoans to look kindly on the concept of a State Street Macy’s at the Marshall Field’s building. They have simply failed on every level. Nobody involved believes in that working at this point. Stubborness of the Federated Board has led to nothing less than the imminent shuttering of a prominent “Macy’s” store, leading to even more money lost by that company.

Either bring back Mashshall Field’s or lose big. Those are the only options.

By: Just_a_Chicago_girl

Just_a_Chicago_girl — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:51:23 +0000

They apparently never heard the rules of retail:

1. The customer is always right.
2. If the customer is wrong, see rule #1.

I’m not happy to see Macy’s proven wrong; I hate to see Marshall Field’s run into the ground.

Have you noticed that the CTA, instead of replacing “Marshall Field’s” on the State St. stretch of CTA maps with “Macy’s”, simply removed it entirely? Nice little jab there.

And it’s amazing how many maps being printed in 2006 and 2007 still show Marshall Field’s, and not Macy’s, located on that block.