Macy Department facts
While investigating facts about Macy Department, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The land the department store chain Macy's owns is worth more ($16 billion) than the company itself ($6.4 billion)
The Macy's department store founder Rowland Hussey Macy was born in 1822 and had a red star tattoo at the age of 15. Later on the tattoo became the company logo.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 10 of the best facts about Macy Department I managed to collect.
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Macys Department store used Doberman dogs as night security guards in the 1950s
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The red star on the logo of Macy's department store is based on a tattoo that the founder, R.H. Macy, got on his hand when he worked on a whaling ship as a teenager.
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The largest working musical instrument in the world is built into one of the Philadelphia's landmarks, the former John Wanamaker department store, which is now a Macy’s
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During the mid '60s, Macy's Department Store offered a line of prefabricated houses called "Leisurama."
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Anne Frank's father used to work at Macy's department store in New York
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In 1941 Federated Department Store Inc. (now known as Macy's), convinced Congress and FDR that changing Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday would extend the Christmas shopping season and boost the economy. Congress agreed, creating Black Friday.
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Business Insider described TJ Maxx as "Macy's worst nightmare" in an oft-quoted 2016 article by Mallory Schlossberg. In a later article Schlossberg also reported on how TJ Maxx's soaring sales "should be concerning for ailing department stores that are fighting to get people to pay full price."
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Macy's originally agreed to be the department store in "Elf" however one stipulation was that Santa couldn't be revealed as a fake. Jon Favreau was unwilling to change the content so he changed the store to "Gimbel's" and filmed it in the cafeteria of a Vancouver mental hospital.
