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At 9:55 a.m., they told us the historic Downtown department store, the former Kauffmann’s flagship, would be closing Pittsburgh Post Gazette, January 24, 2016 by David E. Malehorn I was in the linens stock room, putting electronic inventory tags on bath towels, when everyone was called to an urgent meeting. As we gathered in the half-light on the fourth floor, I could tell something big was up: There were Macy’s officials I’d never seen before. Our store manager took a deep breath to steady himself, raised a sheet of paper and said, “I’m going to have to just read this.”…