I apologize too for making an error about the number of stores Dillard’s has in Indiana earlier, they actually have 3 stores, and not 1. The other 2 stores(besides the one in Richmond, Indiana, and interestingly enough, I visited that store on my last trip to Richmond) are in Clarksville and Evansville.

They still have stores in Cincinnati. They’ve closed several former Higbee stores. They were a poor steward of Higbee’s upper-middle niche in Cleveland. Higbee had successfully latched on to the upper income shoppers that once went to halle’s once Halle’s closed. Dillard cheapened and cluttered the downtown store before closing it (Dillard usually closed downtown stores after buying chains, so it was a novelty to keep one) and basically narrowed the merchandise range. If Macy had kept Field’s as it was, Field’s would simply have destroyed Dillard. Macy probably would best them, anyway. They run crappy, largely uniform stores and do best in sunbelt markets where the competition is basically the same. they seem to invest rather little in stores. The test stores in Chicago are an odd bunch–Dillard seems particularly clueless in serving middle class African-Americans (most of the Cleveland stores they closed all had that clientele); Ford City, Evergreen Park, and River Oaks seem like bad places to start for them.