Weekend Diversion: Memories Of Christmas At Marshall Field's

Whenever I wear one of those "I Want My Marshall Field's" pin-in buttons, I get stopped and people almost always say, "I miss it so much too." 

You'd think at least that the people at Macy's would be talented enough to recognize that they have a wildly popular brand and attempt to reconcile it with today' s need for consolidated and centralized backrooms.    It seems pretty easy that they'd be able to have their cake and eat it too.

Macy's is gross. Field's at least had some personality. You can go into Macy's with unlimited funds and still walk out with nothing because their buyers are, apparently, all dowdy grandmothers recruited from a Dress Barn in the Upper Peninsula somewhere. It's basically a glorified Kohl's. (Actually, I am more likely to find something halfway useable at Kohls... ) What a sad end for a Chicago landmark. Way to take a tradition and K-mart-ify it.