Macy’s announces 68 store closures Macy’s says it is eliminating more than 10,000 jobs and plans to move forward with 68 store closures after a disappointing holiday shopping season. The department store chain also lowered its full-year earnings forecast.Among those to close are the store in the Beaver Valley Mall, Monaca.The retailer said Wednesday that sales at its established stores fell 2.1 percent in November and December compared to the same period last year. Macy’s pointed to changing consumer behavior and said its performance reflects the challenges that are facing much of the retail industry.As if to underscore that point, Kohl’s Corp. also reported disappointing holiday shopping numbers Wednesday.Macy’s said the 68 store closures, which span the nation, are part of the 100 closings it announced in August. Of the 68, three were closed by the middle of 2016, 63 will close in the spring and two will be closed by the middle of 2017.

Frontier drops 2 routes from Pgh.PITTSBURGH — Frontier Airlines is cutting flights to two of five cities serviced from Pittsburgh International Airport.The airline won’t bring back flights to Chicago and Atlanta this spring. The service launched last June and was suspended at the end of October.Spokesman Rich Oliver says the routes didn’t perform as expected during the time they operated from the Findlay airport.The discount carrier will resume its daily flight from Pittsburgh to Denver in April. The route will remain seasonal. Oliver says the carrier also plans to keep its daily flight to Las Vegas and four flights a week to Orlando.

Feds seek $11K fine for Pgh. bridge firePITTSBURGH — The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration wants to fine a contractor $11,224 for a construction fire that wholly or partially shut down a major Pittsburgh bridge for 24 days.Contractor Joseph B. Fay Co. didn’t immediately comment Wednesday. The company has 15 days to appeal.The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has already said it wants Fay to forfeit more than $3 million of the $80 million the company is owed for the Liberty Bridge reconstruction project.