

“If Macy’s ultimately maintains this store-within-a-store past holiday shopping timing, there will need to be a big-picture vision for the future of this partnership,” Minkow says. Melissa Minkow, director of retail strategy at ecommerce technology vendor CI&T, says the Macy’s and Toys R Us partnership “strategically leverages consumers’ desires for experiential in-store retail,” but is skeptical about whether it will produce long-term results. According to Digital Commerce 360 data, sales for the 50 toy and hobby e-retailers ranked in the 2022 Digital Commerce 3 rose 19.3% in 2021, compared with 15.7% for the whole Top 1000. It’s also diving deeper into an online category that grew a bit faster last year than overall ecommerce. What’s the long-term vision?īy working with Toys R Us, Macy’s is betting its toy selection will bring shoppers into stores. Macy’s makes the same toy selection available at /toysrus. When shoppers go to a product detail page on and click “Buy Now,” the site redirects them to purchase from . Macy’s also owns the Bloomingdale’s department store chain and the Bluemercury cosmetics brand. Macy’s, with 511 locations, is the largest retail brand owned by Macy’s Inc.

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