OK I see.  I thought it might be a Pittsburgh thing like the cookie table.  
  
I think that people reacted that way when they closed Gimbels, B. Altman, and Alexanders in NYC.  Now they are building a huge skyscraper where Alexanders was, B. Altman is a school, and the Gimbels building has been turned into co-ops or condos.  Progress.
Macy's isn't that bad really.