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Macy’s sounds yet another alarm on consumer spending
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3/7/2025
Kelsey Barberio brings you the biggest news of the day, including why Macy’s isn’t optimistic in 2025.
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Add Macy's to the growing list of retailers with a not-so-optimistic outlook in 2025.
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The struggling retailer says it expects sales to decline again this year.
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Macy's predicts roughly $21 billion in sales for its current fiscal year, about a billion
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dollars less than last year.
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CEO Tony Spring claims the economic uncertainty in the U.S. is affecting all shoppers, saying
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on Macy's most recent earnings call,
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I think the affluent customer that's shopping Macy's is just as uncertain and as confused
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and concerned by what's transpiring.
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The latest Personal Consumption Expenditures Index saw prices jump 2.5% from a year ago.
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The worrisome reading, however, was real consumer spending, which dropped a larger-than-expected
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0.5%.
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That's the biggest decline in almost four years.
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That number suggests the economy could be in the midst of a consumer-driven slowdown.
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Despite company-owned brands Bloomingdale's and Blue Mercury posting small gains, sales
00:53
at Macy's dropped 5%.
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Then in January, the company announced it would be closing 66 stores, with another 84
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slated to close by the end of 2026.
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That'll do it for your daily briefing.
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From New York City, I'm Kelsea Barbera with The Street.
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