Personal Narrative: Macy's Store

When I was seven years old I used to live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I attended Harvest Prep Middle School. A lot of my friends talk about what I thought was a dream, The Mall of America. It was the biggest Mall in the USA. I begged my mom can we go, but it was always the same answer NO! Javaughn, We don’t have the money for that rite now! I was devastated, all my friends came to school talking about all the excitement that was there.

I went to Manhattan, New York for vacation and decide to visit the Manhattan Macy’s department for the first time. I couldn’t help to notice the aroma of fresh cookies, pizza, and ice cream for sale before entering Macy’s it was Macy’s, it was making me hungry. I bought chocolate chip cookies and tasted like fresh warm cookies that directly from the oven. When I enter the store, I laid eyes on the setting of Macy’s it very different from the one in Miami it was very luxurious atmosphere because the gold the furniture and polish marble Italian tiles. I felt so welcome there the people were so nice to me, I thought it was the holidays because everyone was in a good mood. As I was walking to the Men’s side of the department store

Levitt (2014) defines culture as the coherent, learned, shared views of a group of people and about life’s concerns that ranks what is important, furnishes attitudes about what things are appropriate, and dictates behavior. Macy’s corporate culture possesses a diverse leadership team to target their diverse customers and locations. Diversity, based on experiences and passion, gives the Macy’s leadership team new perspectives to promote successful business. Levitt (2014) suggests organizational diversity can be considered as a mixture of people with different group identities working in the same social system. A multi-cultural team of Americans, Italians, Germans and Swiss would adapt well in the rich bouquet of culture in Zurich, Switzerland. As a new team leader, the biggest concern would be establishing integrations between the different cultures working together at Macys.

The pensive mood between the two effaced, and her chidden tone left as she throttled Macy with her words.

In this paper, I will discuss the use of research within Macy’s department store and some of the different ways and, they might be, able to use research to help with the problems

Macy's was founded by Rowland Hussey Macy in 1858 in New York City. They change the way retailers market their product. They were the first to use the one-price system where all items were sold for one price. In November 1902, they became the "World Largest Store." As they continue to grow within the years many of Macy's immigrant workers, organize the Christmas Parade in 1924. They currently have the world's largest retail store with over 1.1 million square feet of land. Macy’s department store is rank #105 in the Forbes Fourtune 500 List.

Macy’s mission statement establish the importance of concentrate all of their resources in the customers. Reaching customers are essential to the success of a company like Macy’s, and for many years they did a good job. However, for nobody is a secret that Macy’s company is in trouble and that the sales growth has been weakening over the last years. Also, experts consider that things could be worse shortly. Many factors are contributing to this situation, such as the global recession, technologic, socio-cultural trends, political, economic and demographic.

In 1858, Mr. Rowland Hussey Macy (or more commonly known as R.H. Macy) established the first Macy’s department store in New York City. Today, 158 years later, Macy’s is a chain of mid-range American department stores with its flagship store here in Herald Square. This particular store is labelled as the “world’s largest store” because of its one million square feet of selling space. The products offered are clothing, footwear, accessories, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. As of April 2016, the Macy’s company operates 870 stores in 45 states, as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. Within the 870 stores, the workforce includes approximately 157, 900 employees. The company operates Macy’s, Macy’s Backstage, Bloomingdale’s, Bloomingdale’s Outlet, and their new project, Bluemercury. Macy’s is the largest U.S. department store company by retail sales (2015), and they are the 15th largest retailer in the U.S. in terms of revenue (2014). 2015 Fiscal sales totaled to an impressive $27.1 billion. In 2015, Macy’s came out strong holding a winning streak of five consecutive years of growth in earnings, return on invested capital, sales, and cash flow. However, throughout the year, the company experienced a conjunction of negative factors. Due to that, Macy’s was impacted within sales, profitability and margins. Some were caused by external issues and internal. According to Business Insider, Macy’s has blamed a variety of temporary factors for the slowdown in

Macy’s Department store in New York is facing a problem during this year’s holiday season. They have a seasonal shortage of temporary workers, in particular, a need for actors to play the role as Santa in his workshop in the north pole. Due to the Santa Claus shortage, Macy’s is hiring women. This is causing numerous parents to complain that their kids are getting upset when they see a female Santa at the store. Some of those parents are threatening that they would never shop at Macy’s again. Even though I feel women would do a great job playing Santa, there are a few reasons why I think Macy’s should only have male Santa’s.

Denver Department Stores, a Colorado retail store chain, is an entity that was suffering from the effects of decreased sales volume. Jim Barton, the supervisor of four departments within the main location in Denver, was struggling with developing a process to improve the store’s sales. Barton identified with the notion that the decrease in sales volume was a simple matter of a slowdown in the economic landscape, and that the downturn would effect all stores in the retail business. However, Barton’s superior, Mr. Cornwall, the general merchandiser of Denver Department Stores, told Barton that some stores have experienced a 15% gain in recent sales. Cornwall made it clear that he expected Barton’s segments to have sales equal to the other

If I had to stay in a store for a week it would be the Family Doler. I reilly don't know why, but thers just somethen about it. The Family doler store haves so much stuf in it I just like to by it all. If I stay there for a week it would be the Family Doler because theres food in there and if I get bored theres so much to plae with. The there resins I chows the Faily Doler is because they have food, drecs, and all kinds of stof to kep me bese. The Family Doler is a grat stor. I go there ever day. There produt are chep. The only thag is the Family Doler chowses the 9:00 pm. It would be grat if the would stay opin till like 12:30 pm or something. I go there a lot with my dad and mom. I thank I can servie for a week in the Family Doler if I was

I had just gotten home from bicking with my best friend Brooke and her brother and baby setter. We had just gotten home from the dollar store and i was pulling into my driveway I noticed the garage door was closed I thought maybe they closed the garage because Blake has a birthday party to go to.As I pulled into the driveway on my bike and I go to the keypad to get into the garage. When I got close I saw a note on the keypad I read it out loud

I’m Fred James and my carpenter shop hasn't been selling as frequently as we used to when business was booming. My businesses peak was way back when the neighborhood was filled to the rim with people before the rush the Oregon trail took them away. Just today I told Claira, my wife of twenty years that we must move west to Oregon before money becomes an issue. Of course Claira wasn't thrilled and neither were my kids. Milly and Matthew are hysterical about not wanting to leave all their friends. Sadly they'll have to make new ones at our new home.

On your way downtown, no matter where you came from or where you are going, you pass something; A piano. The instrument is white and blue, covered from key to leg in paint splatters and bumper stickers until it resembles an incredibly odd work of graffiti. Most stride past, but my friends and I strode through, and into the Downtown Hudson music store. Adorning every wall, was every manner of stringed instruments, even ones I hadn’t the faintest idea existed. From Banjos to Electric Guitars, Mandolas to Baritone Ukuleles, the little shop was a wonderland for a music lover such as myself. The shop owners allowed us to take the forbidden fruit (for we hadn’t the money to pay for them) off the walls, and play. Nestled in the comfort of old leather

I worked three hours on Saturday 8/15/2015 and three hours 8/16/2015 at Old Navy. I worked on the registers both days. Saturday was the slowest day I have ever worked so far. This is probably due to the fact people were no longer back to school shopping and it was late at night. I learned about what to do when it is slow in the store which is organize the merchandise in the lines and in the front of the store. My manger gave me the project to organize the shoes which tend to get very messy. This posed a challenge as there were no hangers for all of the shoes on the rack. I had to strategically place them so the rack to look neat. I also had organize the sunglasses and jewelry. I was then taught how to take out the trash and re-bag the hanger