Macy's Gives Workers a Yellow Slip

It was early January when Macy's in downtown St. Paul announced its intention to close its doors.  No one seemed surprised.  The first week of clearance sales brought out the downtown workers and the comments I heard from shoppers were pretty much what I think.  That is...."I did my part to buy stuff but I guess it wasn't good enough".  No one seemed particularly sad.  The truth is Macy's is not going to be a store that I will miss.  I have a love-hate relationship with the Macy's coupons that come every other day in the mail.  Every shopping experience became a 7th grade math quiz.  You have two coupons....one for $15.00 off a $50.00 purchase and one coupon for 20% off of one purchase.  The pants I want are $65.00 on Monday but will be 25% off on Wednesday which brings them down to $48.00.  What do I need to do to get my maximum discount?  The answer is that I need to keep shopping for more stuff which must be what they intended.  The question now is what goes in that space.  I hear plenty of people hoping for a Target store.  I say the Target store out on Robert Street is close enough.  My suggestion is to have the Minnesota Museum of American Art move into the space and share some of those 4,000 works of art they have in storage.