The layoffs come after Macy’s Inc. on Jan. 9 announced plans to close five department stores in Michigan as part of 66 stores nationwide it plans to close this year. It commenced going-out-of-business ...

As a young woman in the ’40s and ’50s, she would take the streetcar down to Union Square — in proper hat and gloves, it goes without saying — to visit the department stores and have a spot of lunch.