Macy's laying off over 1,000 workers, 'simplifying' operations

Macy’s is closing aggregate Connecticut facilities and laying disconnected implicit 1,000 workers successful an effort to simplify the company’s operations, per an online announcement filed with the state’s Department of Labor and a connection from the retailer.

Macy’s confirmed to USA TODAY connected Jan. 21 that the New York City-headquartered institution is closing facilities successful South Windsor and Cheshire “as portion of our ongoing enactment to modernize our proviso concatenation to amended service customers, portion simplifying however we operate.”

Closures volition statesman successful March, and astir of the employees being laid disconnected are astatine the Cheshire location, including 485 fulfillment associates, 193 powerfulness instrumentality operators and 72 inventory power and prime assurance workers.

According to the announcement shared connected the Connecticut Department of Labor’s website, Macy’s archetypal told employees astir the closures connected Jan. 12. The section store concatenation said it plans to springiness laid-off employees accusation astir transportation opportunities to unfastened positions successful adjacent Macy’s locations.

Macy’s website states that the institution has 424 locations, 21 small-format locations and 5 Macy’s Backstage locations, which merchantability discounted items. Earlier this month, the section store institution said that it would beryllium closing 14 stores successful 12 states.

Here’s what we cognize astir the closures truthful far.

Upcoming closures: Macy's acceptable to adjacent 14 stores nationwide. See database here.

Macy’s said successful a announcement to the Connecticut Department of Labor and South Windsor Mayor Audrey Delnicki connected Jan. 12 that 1 of the upcoming closures includes the Macy’s South Windsor Distribution Center, located astir 8 miles northeast of Hartford.

The imperishable closure and 57 layoffs from the determination volition go authoritative connected March 14, 2026, the institution said. Of the layoffs, 20 employees are warehouse associates. Other impacted workers see warehouse leads, scanning instrumentality operators, information specialists and different positions.

In a Jan. 13 announcement to the Connecticut Department of Labor and Cheshire Mayor Peter Talbot, Macy’s said it is closing its Macy’s Cheshire Fulfillment Center. The halfway is composed of 2 locations successful Cheshire, astir 18 miles northeast of New Haven.

Approximately 993 jobs volition beryllium eliminated permanently successful the move, Macy’s said successful the notice. Closures astatine the Cheshire facilities volition hap successful groups based connected position:

• Night Operations and Talent Acquisition – March 14, 2026

• Two workers providing services to Bloomingdale’s Photo Studio – March 14 to March 26, 2026

• Weekend Part-Time Operations – April 4, 2026

• Day Part-Time Operations – April 4, 2026

• Weekend Full-Time Operations – Aug. 1, 2026

• Day Full Time-Operations – Aug. 29, 2026

• Maintenance and Asset Protection – Aug. 29, 2026 (a tiny fig of these workers volition stay employed until April 16, 2027, to grip the decommissioning oregon instrumentality removal process).