The escalator drops you off in the men's department, which is a bit of a surprise since pretty much every multi-level department store I've visited hides men's clothing in an upper level (or basement), not right on the main level. While the exterior entrance leads to the lower level, the directory on the right shows that Macy's considers the mall level to be the main level (plus, women's clothing is on the upper levels for the most part).
Ha, the former Pasadena Town Square/Macroplaza Mall Macy's/Foley's here in Houston had their single mall entrance open up right into the men's department! Here is a photo from Je's Louisiana & Texas Retail Blog showing the situation: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHN89uEN7qtgUWj1nEbTRxNHl56wpTwte-tJTZFoB8zP9Strjb2CZh87KkyzgdjvDLwFY6F8Sr9RzUC2dJZEq4sc9NV6Fb-sf0rzfE2Hj0nanrQxTa5_7fC5wQzYnUadKr0j0mBbpQuH8/s1600/20170201_152107.jpg
ReplyDeleteI guess that Macy's had an excuse for the less-than-impressive mall entrance in the sense that the store opened some 15-20 years before the mall did and so perhaps they had to make the mall entrance be somewhere where it didn't really make compete sense.
As for escalators, it is a bit unusual for the escalators to dump shoppers out into a men's department, but the more floors a department store has, the more unusual things tend to get. Most stores around here are just two-story except for the Dillard's which started out as Macy's in the 1980s.
That is unusual! This store has cosmetics right by the mall entrance, which seems to have been a common Bon Marche/Macy's thing, and makes more sense than the men's department. It's pretty odd for a mall to be built connecting to an existing store, so I'm not surprised that place was a bit strange!
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