Macy's Set To Reopen Stores As Memorial Day Weekend Approaches

DANBURY, CT – Facing losses in sales that could reach $1 billion due to the coronavirus, Macy’s announced Thursday morning that it will reopen 80 of stores on Friday, including all of its Connecticut locations.

The announcement comes just in time for the Memorial Day holiday weekend and allows Macy’s mall locations at The Connecticut Post in Milford, Danbury Fair, Stamford Town Center and at Westfield Trumbull to reopen at full scale. The company also owns Bloomingdale’s which opened last year at the SoNo Collection in South Norwalk and Bluemercury, which has locations in Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan and Westport.

Macy’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Gennette told investment analysts Thursday morning that the company has enhanced health and safety standards across all of its stores and is offering curbside at many of its locations. The retailer began reopening stores on May 4 and currently has 190 stores open in their full format.

Within two weeks of opening the stores, Gennette said customer demand is “moderately higher than we anticipated” and that shoppers responded positively to a Mother’s Day sale.

Macy’s shuttered all of its stores on March 18, which the company’s chairman and CEO, Jeff Gennette, told investment analysts Thursday morning had a “significant impact on our first quarter results.”

Gennette said the retailer experienced a steady uptick in business in April and is confident that business will gradually return to normal.

“We are taking the right steps to ensure that Macy’s, Inc. will emerge on the other side of this crisis a strong, resilient company and ready to serve our customers,” Gennette said in a news release issued Thursday morning.