macy's wine store...

i generally find their wine store to be... well... overpriced and kind of blah to start with... and i've gotten a number of tainted bottles there too. i still walk through it almost daily in my commute...

i noticed about two weeks ago all of their private label "macy's" brand wines (made in california) are 1/2 off... then if you buy a case it's another 25% off of the already 1/2 price ... the original bottle price is 11.95, 1/2 is 5.97... then it comes down to $4.50 or so when you buy a case.

they have cabernet, shiraz, and some whites... but what caught my attention was their brut sparkling...

i bought a few bottles "just to try it out" ... it's decent enough that i went back for a case... i went by yesterday and they still had the same sale going on, but i'm not sure if they had sparkling left. they're on a big round table next to the register so perhaps the sparkling was in back, not sure. i bought the shiraz and it was pretty boring... the cabernet is a little better, and above average of what i've tried in that price point. if you like charles shaw it might be up your alley. i didn't try the chardonnay.

cheapo bottles of reds/whites are easy to come by, but cheapo bottles of sparkling that are worth drinking harder... in this price point ($5) especially... i wouldn't say it's great, but it's drinkable as is...

their private label wines are made by http://www.kdmglobalpartners.com/wine/


the person at the register screwed up, so my bottles actually came to be less than $4.50/bottle.

Also, apparently they opened a new wine cafe on the 7th floor.... they gave the customer in front of me a coupon for it, so i inquired when i got to the register... the coupon was a $10 off $25 purchase... so not bad. even though it's macys and i try not to shop there.

Speaking of Macy's...didn't they promise us a Harrod's style food court when they took over the State Street Marshall Fields?

Never heard anything about it since, so I'll have to assume that is was just corporate b.s. meant to drown out local frustration over losing MF.

Sam Harmon wrote:Speaking of Macy's...didn't they promise us a Harrod's style food court when they took over the State Street Marshall Fields?

Never heard anything about it since, so I'll have to assume that is was just corporate b.s. meant to drown out local frustration over losing MF.

The Seven on State food court is more than I would expect from a department store. I don't know if this predates the Macy's buyout. But this really doesn't seem like something worth complaining about. If you want better food, just go to a proper restaurant.

Darren72 wrote:

Sam Harmon wrote:Speaking of Macy's...didn't they promise us a Harrod's style food court when they took over the State Street Marshall Fields?

Never heard anything about it since, so I'll have to assume that is was just corporate b.s. meant to drown out local frustration over losing MF.

The Seven on State food court is more than I would expect from a department store. I don't know if this predates the Macy's buyout. But this really doesn't seem like something worth complaining about. If you want better food, just go to a proper restaurant.

ALL the restaurants in the State Street Macy's store were there during the Marshall Field's areas. And in my opinion, nearly ALL of the dining venues in Macy's has declined since the takeover. The worst decline has been in the ground floor food court where the selection and quality have declined.

I will be the first to admit that I am NOT a department store shopper ... that's so 1960s. However, I thought the DT Marshall Field's store was a "how to" manual on high-end merchandising. The food venues were very good.

dddane wrote:i generally find their wine store to be... well... overpriced and kind of blah

"Blah" is a matter of taste, and I'll agree Macy's wine store is not an exciting place to seek out new labels, but I will point out that, on price, they can offer some excellent buys. Macy's treats its wine like it does its socks and mattresses - a commodity, subject to routine and sometimes very deep discounting you would not likely see at an independent wine shop of a size similar to the Macy's State Street wine department. A recent example: On a rack of wines all discounted 50% I found a couple of bottles of Cosentino's low-end white Meritage, normally $15; and unless my memory betrays me (I don't have the receipt), I was able to take another 10% off for President's Day, or some such. So, I either paid $7.50 or $6.75 per bottle; either way, quite a bargain. Makes it worth a stroll through every once in a while; say, every Saturday after checking out the Puppet Bike at the corner of State and Randolph (closed until Spring!).