Macy’s ended last year with 665 stores, down from 680, with impairment charges tied to roughly 150 locations planned for closure.

Dillard’s opened no new stores at all and closed one.

Nordstrom stopped being a public company in May 2025.

Von Maur, meanwhile, opened its first store in Pennsylvania in November 2024, its first in North Dakota in April 2025, announced its first in New Jersey for 2027, and is spending over $100 million renovating seven existing stores.

It also operates a store credit card that charges no interest.

No interest. At a moment when the average American cardholder paying interest is being charged about 22 percent, and the average store card carries 31.3 percent.

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