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Showing posts with label Belk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belk. Show all posts

Monday, October 13, 2008

Mall heads to auction block

A foreclosed middle Georgia mall goes up for auction next month. Macon Mall can't pay a $141 million loan. The mall's manager says it is unclear what effect the foreclosure will have on Belk, Sears and Macy's, which own their buildings. Dillard's plans to close its store at the mall by December.

(Associated Press)

Friday, June 22, 2007

Jury sides with women videotaped changing

A jury in Athens-Clarke County has sided with four women who say a department store videotaped them changing clothes. Two women who worked at Belk got $230,000. Another two got $180,000. Belk managers installed a hidden camera in a stockroom in 2005 -- catching the women on tape while they changed clothes before and after shifts. Lawyers for the company argued that it installed the camera to catch thieves, and said the employees should have known it was there. The women say they were never told.

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