10: The Macy's Home Department

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🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Macy's at Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia closed its doors for good a year ago. Then, the whole mall shut down. The empty department store become a homeless shelter. And a woman who once worked there, found herself sleeping there.

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0:00.0	I found this quote in a New York Times article a few months ago that really stood out to me.
0:06.4	It was this woman named Carlene who was moving into a new homeless shelter back in June,
0:12.2	and she said in the paper, it's weird to be moving into this building.
0:15.8	I used to work here.
0:17.8	I can't believe that I'm in Macy's.
0:21.2	They took the shelter to stuck it inside of Macy's.
0:25.6	Macy's not tore down, it just built within it.
0:29.3	When we found her, she was sharing a room.
0:31.6	The walls are temporary sheet rock.
0:34.0	There's a little piece missing, and she said she can look through the hole and see what
0:37.9	used to be the Macy's in the mall.
0:40.3	You know, when I was at it.
0:42.3	And my reaction is that I'm here.
0:44.3	You know, that's what I thought I'm here.
0:46.7	My past had peed in myself in a different way.
0:55.7	On business insider in Stitcher, this is household name.
1:00.5	Brands you know, stories you don't.
1:02.5	I'm Dan Bobcoff.
1:11.0	Today, the Macy's home department.
1:13.8	For Carlene, Christmas time was always the best time at Macy's and her local mall.
1:18.8	As a kid, she admired the big lights and holiday decorations.
1:22.8	You couldn't always afford to shop there, but she loved to look.
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