1.0 link 142523 <![CDATA[Macy's State Street Cost Cuts Christmas]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-doyle/macys-state-street-cost-c_b_142523.html I'll cut to the chase: Macy's State Street has cost-cut its Chicago Loop holiday windows and Christmas tree so deeply this year, I personally don't believe it's worth bothering to make that time-honored family foray downtown to see them.

In January 2008, Macy's fired longtime window dresser Amy Meadows, the woman responsible for decorating 25 years worth of State Street holiday windows and Walnut Room Great Trees, as part of a particularly brutal wave of cost-cutting layoffs at the retailer's...

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