One common trait of all three Bon Marches of this design is the abandoned restaurant patio still visible from the upper parking lot. This one appears to still be in use as an employee break space, though -- but it unsurprisingly wasn't being used on my December visit! This view also shows just how lacking the maintenance is on these stores -- I get that this isn't an area that customers are supposed to see (not that it's difficult to see it from the parking lot), but the unraked leaves, messy plants, mossy roof, and random trash make it look rather run-down, and the fence that's supposed to be hiding all that from view looks pretty rough itself.
Yuck, if I didn’t know any better, I’d assume this store has been abandoned for quite some time based on this photo! I’m not surprised about the poor maintenance though as Macy’s has some of the worst maintenance of major retail chains in this area. Before Macy’s closed them in the last decade, the San Jacinto Mall, Greenspoint Mall, and Pasadena Town Square Macy’s (all former Foley’s) were especially in such bad condition that even Eddie Lampert would have disapproved. The second floor of the Pasadena store had many ceiling tiles with extensive mold on them before Macy’s finally decided to close the second floor about a decade ago. It was really bad. I never saw a Sears look even remotely as bad. That’s just to name one example of poor maintenance at local Macy’s. I could name many more examples, but granted, most of the really bad stores have closed.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't surprise me... I haven't ever visited a Macy's with quite such significant problems, but pretty much all of their stores I've been to definitely seem a bit run down!
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