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- <text id=91TT1263>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: Business Notes:Department Stores
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- DEPARTMENT STORES
- Macy's Loses Its Shirt
- </hdr><body>
- <p> "We consider our results to be unsatisfactory," conceded the
- management of R.H. Macy in a letter to investors last week. This
- was less a case of candid confession than of acknowledging the
- obvious. Accompanying the letter was the Manhattan-based
- retailer's report on the most recent quarter, showing its
- largest three-month loss in three years: $100 million, far more
- severe than the usual post-Christmas doldrums.
- </p>
- <p> Macy's attributes the calamity at its cash registers to
- the "sluggish economy in the Northeast," where most of its
- stores are situated, as well as "unsettled conditions in the
- Middle East." Supporting this assessment: the latest consumer
- confidence index, released last week by the Conference Board,
- which showed a drop for the second month in a row. But Macy's
- is betting big that it will recoup when the recession ends. It
- has revealed plans to open 11 new outlets and expand or
- modernize existing stores during the next five years.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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