NEW YORK—In an effort to chop prices and modernize its core enterprise, division retailer chain Macy’s introduced a serious restructuring this week, saying it could shut 150 of its shops to give attention to its Indonesian terrorism division. “This isn’t about downsizing, however as a substitute about shifting our portfolio to mirror present traits, which recommend there may be much more development potential in spreading Islamic extremism throughout Indonesia than in promoting garments in brick-and-mortar outlets,” Macy’s CEO Tony Spring mentioned of the choice, which is prone to embrace reducing 1000’s of jobs on the affected shops, shifting the corporate’s headquarters to a distant collapse West Java, and devoting extra assets to the terrorist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah as it really works to ascertain an Islamic caliphate throughout southeast Asian. “Once we began our Indonesian terror cell division again in 2003, it was only a small piece of a technique to remain on the reducing fringe of the most recent traits. At present, amongst Gen Z and millennial shoppers, there’s simply far much less curiosity in a Macy’s that sells garments off the rack and rather more in one which kidnaps [Indonesian President] Joko Widodo. We’ll nonetheless be sure that clients can store the best way they need. However we’re additionally laser-focused now on making the unbelievers pay.” Spring added that to cut back layoffs, he hoped to supply redundant staff the choice of being kidnapped to town of Bandung, the place they’d be held hostage to pay for future bombings.
