How many cities still have downtown department stores?

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Although department stores have been past their heyday, I think it was a bad move when Macys merged with Federated and then converted many regional and local department stores, like Marshall Fields in the midwest, to Macys. Some malls and downtowns even had two Macys for a while, which was ludicrous. I think that they should have kept at least one of the regional brands and expanded to other regions. Oddly, it seems that Dilliards may be the one of the few department stores that is doing well, if you look at their stock price over the last few years. Does anyone know why - maybe they are the only department store left in the smaller metro areas like Little Rock where they are based?