![]() It is unknown how many employees will lose their jobs. "The decision to close a store is always a difficult one, but Macy’s Richland Mall is honored to have served our customers and the community over the past 51 years, and we look forward to continuing to do so at Macy’s Polaris Fashion Place, online at or on the Macy’s app," Cohen said. Regular, non-seasonal colleagues who we are unable to place at nearby Macy’s store will be eligible for severance, including outplacement resources," Cohen said in an email.Ī clearance sale will begin in January and run eight-12 weeks. ![]() "Macy’s previously shared this information with our valued colleagues. This closure is part of the company’s strategy announced in early 2020, according to Carolyn Ng Cohen, director, media relations, at Macy's. The rest are slated to start later this month.Īfter careful consideration, Macy’s has decided to close our Richland Mall location. Liquidation sales have started at some of the locations. “The pandemic just really accelerated some trends that were already causing New York’s retail sector to shrink, particularly e-commerce,” Bowles said.The Macy's store in the Richland Mall, and Tri-County Mall in Mentor and Great Lakes Mall, in Springdale, a suburb of Cincinnati, all in Ohio, are on the closing list, according to national media online reports. Among the sectors most impacted are clothing, accessories, shoes, sporting goods and department stores, Bowles of the Center for an Urban Future said. People got used to ordering online, and it hasn’t slowed down much since. “And that’s what I’m trying to dig into - what type of retail and again, if people will come in the retail stores if they have an experience because otherwise, you can shop online.” COVID and online shoppingĬOVID gave the retail sector in New York an extra push, but storefront retail shops actually started to gradually decline around 2014, he said. But not all retail is not dying,” Askins said. She said that despite the vacant storefronts that dot the corridor, things are looking up: Within the last two weeks, a couple new stores opened up, and she’s seeing more interest in real estate in the area. “There’s so many things that make this very difficult for a business.” “You have the crime, you have the homelessness, you got the state putting almost every drug supportive thing in Harlem,” she said. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)īarbara Askins, the president and CEO of the 125th Street Business Improvement District, said there are multiple factors that have changed the feel of the streets and had an impact on retail. Increasingly, retailers are locking up more products or increasing the number of security guards at their stores to curtail theft. Leo Pichardo, left, a store associate at Gristedes supermarket, retrieves a container of Tide laundry soap from a locked cabinet, Tuesday Jan. In response, stores have locked more merchandise behind glass displays. ![]() Reports of shoplifting and retail theft have shot up since the pandemic. Mavruk pointed to public safety: “I used to open up 10 o’clock on Tuesday,” he said. “All the local businesses have seemed like they’re just slowly becoming obsolete,” Lina said, adding that she was concerned about displacement and gentrification resulting from the high rent prices. ![]() You tell me is this place worth $20,000 a month? when there is nobody on the streets? How am I going to pay?” “The landlords are notorious in what they ask them to sit down and pretend you want to bring in a business to heart and call the landlords and try to bargain,” Mavruk said. Mahmut “Mohammed” Mavruk, owner of H & M Art Gallery and Framing, and his 22-year-old daughter Lina said that the high rents are impossible to pay when, on top of a rocky post-pandemic economy, public safety has deteriorated across the city and shoppers are more selective about when they will go out. How they gonna get back rent? They can’t make rent now!” Shopping and safety People have to pay rent on their house, they can’t pay rent on their store,” hairdresser Betty Washington, 65, said. ![]()
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