Macy's in Santee's Trolley Square debuted in November 2023 as a 30,000-square-foot small-format concept — roughly one-fifth the footprint of a standard Macy's department store. The curated merchandise mix concentrates fashion, beauty, and accessories from over 200 brands into a boutique-scale layout on Mission Gorge Road, where H Tim Williams Jewelers anchors the independent-accessory market. Buy-online-pickup-in-store fulfillment and full return processing operate at the Santee location despite the reduced square footage, maintaining the logistics capability of a full-line Macy's. The small-format model condenses department-store breadth into a walkable footprint suited to Santee Trolley Square's strip-center layout, where the fashion-and-beauty focus complements services at Salon Thrive on Town Center Parkway. Interior zones allocate separate brand-shop modules for women's apparel, men's sportswear, shoes, handbags, fragrances, and cosmetics, each built with vendor-specific fixturing, dedicated lighting rigs, and point-of-sale stations calibrated to Macy's national Visual Merchandising standards.