Macy's: a great place so shop with an excellent brand name selection in a classic department store genre.
Searching in the east does not present a lot of higher end shopping options like you can find in Ross. Fortunately Macy's is remaining as the anchor store in Monroeville. Macy's is a clean, modern, nicely decorated, well-lit, somewhat higher end place to shop with good selection. The associates are normally well trained and pleasant to deal with.
Other stores are around like Target which provide nice options but are really smaller, don't necessarily carry the bigger brand names and have moved into the grocery business for a kind of one stop shopping option.
Monroeville Mall once had Kaufmann's and Gimbels as two anchor stores on either end. Shopping was great. Then Macy's acquired both of them and closed one of them. The result was we were left with one great department store instead of two. One good thing that followed was Penny's and Dick's did take up the old Kaufmann's end of the Mall.
But Macy's now is the focus here. Three floors of well laid out and beautifully merchandised brand name options are there for the browsing. Many stores come and go in the Mall but Macy's remains and thank goodness it does.