Macy's will close 14 more stores across the country in the coming months, including two California locations and a Pennsylvania store with an April 26 closing date, as the department store chain continues a years-long retreat from underperforming brick-and-mortar sites. The latest round of closures spans at least 11 states, from Georgia to Washington, and marks another chapter in a restructuring plan that has already eliminated dozens of locations since 2024.
The California stores on the chopping block sit at the Grossmont Center in La Mesa and the West Valley Mall in Tracy, the New York Post reported. The Desert Sun first identified both California locations among the 14 slated for closure. In Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Mills Mall store in Tarentum will shut its doors on April 26, according to local outlets TribLive and WTAE.
The remaining stores are scattered across the map, Atlanta, Glen Burnie in Maryland, a Michigan location on Rivertown Parkway, Saint Cloud in Minnesota, Newington in New Hampshire, two New Jersey sites in Livingston and Ramsey, Amherst in New York, Raleigh in North Carolina, Corpus Christi in Texas, and Tukwila in Washington. Most are expected to close sometime in the first half of this year, though Macy's has not released specific dates for each location.
These 14 closures are part of a much larger plan. In 2024, Macy's announced it would shutter 150 underperforming stores by the end of 2026. The company said at the time that closures would roll out on a continuing basis as it evaluates regional store performance. CEO Tony Spring, named to lead the company in 2024, has overseen the accelerating contraction.
The numbers tell the story clearly. Macy's shuttered 66 stores in 2025 alone, including one in Los Angeles. With another 14 now on the list, the chain is well on its way toward that 150-store target, and it remains unclear when the company will announce the final wave of closures before year's end.
The strategy, Macy's has said, is to cut costs, focus resources on high-performing stores and luxury brands, and invest more heavily in digital shopping. In short, the 167-year-old retailer, founded in 1858, is betting its future on fewer stores and more screens.
Macy's is hardly alone. Three major retailers are on track to close more than 700 U.S. stores in 2026, a sign that the American retail landscape is shifting beneath consumers' feet faster than many communities can absorb.
The current round of closures did not appear out of nowhere. Years of declining in-store traffic and falling sales have forced Macy's hand repeatedly. AP News reported that Macy's had previously planned to close about 100 stores, roughly 14 percent of its Macy's-branded locations, while increasing online investment and prioritizing stores with the highest growth potential. At that time, the company's revenue had fallen 3.9 percent, and same-store sales had declined for six straight quarters.
Then-Macy's President Jeff Gennette framed the earlier closures as a strategic advance, not a retreat:
"The announcements we are making today represent an advancement in our thinking on the role of the stores, the quality of the shopping experience we will deliver, and how and where we reinvest in our business for growth."
That was the optimistic version. The reality, as Fox News Radio noted, was that Macy's was trying to stay competitive after sustained sales declines and mounting pressure from online rivals like Amazon. The company acknowledged it needed to boost e-commerce investment and focus on exclusive products just to keep pace.
The luxury retail sector has faced similar reckoning. Saks Global has confirmed wave after wave of store closures as its own bankruptcy restructuring guts the once-dominant luxury chain.
What gets lost in the corporate language about "evaluating regional store performances" and "focusing on high-performing locations" is the impact on the communities where these stores anchor shopping centers. When Macy's pulls out of a mall, in La Mesa, in Tracy, in Tarentum, it doesn't just remove a store. It removes foot traffic, jobs, and often the last major draw keeping a struggling retail center alive.
Newsmax reported that department stores broadly have faced a rough stretch as consumers shift spending toward big-ticket items like electronics and cars and away from apparel. Former Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren once insisted the company was "set up well to proceed to a comeback." That comeback has yet to arrive for the stores now being shuttered.
The broader trend is unmistakable. Saks Global cut more than 1,200 positions and closed 15 stores after its Chapter 11 filing, and other high-end retailers face similar pressures. The American mall, once a symbol of middle-class prosperity, is hollowing out from coast to coast.
Macy's says it will keep announcing closures on a rolling basis. For the employees and shoppers in those 14 communities, the rolling has already reached their door.
Even individual flagship locations are not immune. Saks Fifth Avenue recently closed its Las Vegas store after more than four decades, a reminder that no brand name and no location guarantees survival in this environment.
Macy's leadership frames these closures as a path to profitability, fewer stores, better margins, more digital revenue. Wall Street may reward that logic. But the logic runs in only one direction for the workers who lose shifts, the small businesses that depend on anchor-store traffic, and the municipalities that watch tax revenue walk out the door.
The company has not disclosed how many employees will be affected by the latest 14 closures. It has not said when the remaining stores on its 150-store closure list will be identified. And it has not explained what, if anything, it plans to do for the communities it leaves behind.
Corporate America keeps telling Main Street that the future is digital. Main Street keeps asking who's going to fill the empty storefronts.