Lord & Taylor
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Sep 25, 2026
speaker_0HOST
look at Armani,
Phil BrownGUEST
and then you go to Nordstrom's and look at Armani, and then you go to, I think Lord & Taylor might have some Armani, when it was around, the difference in those suits is huge.
Phil BrownGUEST
You know, they're not the same.
Phil BrownGUEST
It's not cheaper because it's the same.
Phil BrownGUEST
Otherwise, rich people would shop at Lord & Taylor.
Phil BrownGUEST
They don't.
Phil BrownGUEST
The reason is the jacket shoulders are lined all the way.
Adam SmeltzGUEST
Gimbals hung on until the late 1980s at 6th and Smithfield.
Adam SmeltzGUEST
Some of the patterns that we've seen, like the closure of Lord & Taylor and Saks, these were companies that were having larger corporate issues in terms of revenue and people's shopping patterns.
Megan HarrisHOST
So it wasn't Pittsburgh's fault.
Adam SmeltzGUEST
It was not Pittsburgh's fault, but of course the collapse of industry, the collapse of steel that was felt, you know, economically across the region certainly didn't help matters either.
Nancy LeightonGUEST
... um, and the only thing I knew, my father was in retail.
Nancy LeightonGUEST
He was an executive at Lord & Taylor, and the only thing I knew was retailing and that's why he said, you know, "Open a participle store," was the big joke.
Nancy LeightonGUEST
Um, so I, I got a job with Bloomingdale's executive training program.
Christa LauriHOST
Mm-hmm.
KarricaGUEST
[laughs] That's the only big store in the US that I haven't shipped to.
KarricaGUEST
So I've done everything, the big box retailers, the DSWs, Lord & Taylor, Saks, Bergdorf, blah, blah, blah.
KarricaGUEST
And so I-
Emily BlumenthalHOST
RIP Lord & Taylor
KarricaGUEST
...
KarricaGUEST
RIP.
Emily BlumenthalHOST
Right?
KarricaGUEST
It was a sad day when they closed down, just to go off.
Neal FreymanHOST
Like, I think it's very telling about what those properties were.
Neal FreymanHOST
That Netflix spot, they moved into a former Lord & Taylor in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Neal FreymanHOST
Now it's a Netflix space, and then in Dallas, they moved into f- to a former Belk's, and now it's a Netflix space.
Neal FreymanHOST
So these are department stores that created vacant spaces, but now these new tenants are moving in.
Sarah MarshallHOST
I like that.
Gabe HenryGUEST
[laughs] Um, then a few years later, Macy's opens up, then Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdale's, all of them within a few blocks-
Sarah MarshallHOST
Mm
Gabe HenryGUEST
... of each other in New York.
Gabe HenryGUEST
And so once shoppers are comfortable riding to upper floors, retailers could s- stock far more merchandise.
Gabe HenryGUEST
They can grow their department stores.
Gabe HenryGUEST
So Macy's, by 1924, it has 20 floors, and Lord & Taylor has 11.
Gabe HenryGUEST
And it used to be that department stores might have one floor for women and another floor for men, but now they can have a whole floor just for women's shoes and another floor just for women's handbags and another store-
Jill WagnerHOST
The pandemic tanked foot traffic at malls, which were already reeling from closing department stores and the rise of online shopping.
Jill WagnerHOST
And then you had those former anchor stores like Sears, Macy's, JCPenney, and Lord & Taylor all pulling out of the mall.
Jill WagnerHOST
By summer of twenty twenty-three, lower-end malls had lost fifty to seventy percent of their value.
Jill WagnerHOST
So what is happening here? What's driving the surge? Nobody is actually building new malls.
PatAUDIENCE
Hey, Mark.
PatAUDIENCE
Yes, I, I, I, I, I was on my way to the office on 9/11, and I'm crossing Fifth Avenue right in front of, uh, Lord & Taylor.
PatAUDIENCE
Remember the old Lord & Taylor right across the-
Mark SimoneHOST
Yeah, 38, 38
PatAUDIENCE
... and I look up, and I see the pl- literally see the plane in the, in the sky, and I said to myself, "Gee, what the hell's going on? I, I bet you there's a problem at LaGuardia, and they're rerouting planes." 'Cause I said, I've, you know, l- always in that area crossing the street, you know, you know, right around at mid-Manhattan, and I said I'd never seen a plane flying so low right over Fifth Avenue.
PatAUDIENCE
Hey, Mark.
PatAUDIENCE
Yes, I, I, I, I, I was on my way to the office, uh, 9/11, and I'm crossing Fifth Avenue right in front of, uh, Lord & Taylor.
PatAUDIENCE
Remember the old Lord & Taylor right across the-
Mark SimoneHOST
Yeah, 38.
Mark SimoneHOST
38
PatAUDIENCE
Hey, Mark, yes.
PatAUDIENCE
I was on my way to the office on 9-11, and I'm crossing Fifth Avenue right in front of Lord & Taylor.
PatAUDIENCE
Remember the old Lord & Taylor? Yeah, 38.
PatAUDIENCE
And I look up, and I literally see the plane in the sky.
PatAUDIENCE
And I said to myself, gee, what the hell is going on? I bet you there's a problem at LaGuardia, and they're rerouting planes.
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