http://www.fieldsfanschicago.org

and see how many people just like you also miss Field’s. Join our Boycott of macy’s. Join us in early September to protest in front of the Marshall Field’s flagship landmark department store, which has been ruined by macy’s onslaught.

Tell us your thoughts on the weblog. Remember, it’s:
http://www.fieldsfanschicago.org The group is getting larger and larger and larger by the week, and the website has more hits and comments than ever before!

What can you do?!?
* Boycott macy’s and bloomingdale’s until the name and service and grand merchandise selection of Marshall Field’s returns,
* Write to the Chicago newspapers and TV media with your opinions.
*Join us in weekly protests in front of 111 N. State. (See the website for more information.)
* Tell your friends, co-workers, neighbors and business associates to boycott macy’s and bloomingdale’s. (Bloomingdale’s is owned by macy.s)

We need you! Thanks for your opinions on THIS site.

And don’t give me none of that crap about miracles on 34th St. Everybody knows the real Santa was at Marshall Fields. Mom told me so.

I wish that if Macy’s had to buy all of these chains, they could have (particularly for the ones that were doing OK already) maintained the names and essential features, even top-selling brands, decor, and local management of the local stores while still making whatever changes they felt were needed at the larger corporate level to keep themselves profitable.

It seems like their strategy was “eliminate the competition by buying it” and that was about as far as it went.

I love “What Not to Wear” but it’s been like nails on a chalkboard lately, watching Clinton and Stacy try to convince me that I should approach any random sullen employee of my local Macy’s and she’ll have the expertise to outfit me with a chic, flattering new wardrobe perfect for my body type. I’m sure the employee will have even less interest in this now, if Macy’s has been trying to finance their screw-ups by cutting associates’ pay, as indicated in the Chicago Carless post.

Hmm… I see that as a Hudson’s loyalist I am part of the pattern of “conglomeratization” that culminated in the Macy’s takeover. I always thought Marshall Field’s bought the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (when they changed all the stores to Field’s) but apparently it was the other way around.

While the NYC flagship store and perhaps the downtown SF store are still impressive if only for their sheer size, now Macy’s elsewhere is just a giant shark eating department stores like Robinsons-May and The Broadway in LA, Bon Marche in Seattle, Meier and Frank in Portland, and of course all the other examples cited above. All these stores have about as much original charm and character as a Wal-Mart, plus they’re overpriced to boot. I don’t have a whole lot of discretionary income for things like recreational shopping, and what they have generally doesn’t interest me much. Even if I was a size 8, and affluent, it probably wouldn’t interest me much. My mom is a size 4 and never goes there; like you, Kate, she’d rather go to Nordstrom, where the quality is better.

And yeah, they were extra-double stupid not to recognize that Chicago is not Seattle or LA or Portland or even Boston, and that people were fiercely loyal to Marshall Field’s. What they did was somewhat akin to Jerry Reinsdorf buying the Cubs and blowing up Wrigley Field and building a U.S. Cellular Field clone in that spot. Eeeeef.

When people say things like, “If the front door says Macy’s I’m NOT going in there,” how dumb do you have to be not to listen to them? Would it have killed them to retain the brand name in that market and left things the way they were? What part of “if it’s not broken don’t fix it” is it so hard to understand?

At least you have Nordstrom, which we sadly don’t have in NY and has the best shoes.

What they did to marshall fields is abominable and i’m so glad chicagoans are having none of it. It’s a shame to see a beautiful building house such a lemon of a company. What’s their slogan again? “cheap shit at lofty prices”? something like that….