Macy’s on Thursday confirmed it’s closing 66 of its locations imminently as part of a plan announced last year to shutter 150 through fiscal 2026.

The department store chain said in a release it’s redirecting resources from the 150 “unproductive” stores toward 350 that will remain open.

Most of the stores are closing and having going-out-of-business sales for eight to 12 weeks starting this month for furniture stores and later for free-standing discount Macy’s Backpage outlets, according to Axios.

Eight stores already had going-out-of-business sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, which ran from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2024. Five of the 66 closed stores were shuttered in fiscal 2024, and six are furniture stores relocating their sales to a full-line Macy’s location, the company explained.

The closing stores are in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington state.

“Closing any store is never easy. … We are closing underproductive Macy’s stores to allow us to focus our resources and prioritize investments in our go–forward stores, where customers are already responding positively to better product offerings and elevated service,” Macy’s CEO Tony Spring said in the company’s release.

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