Before you register at Macy's, make sure the items you want are going to be available online! My fiancee and I went to Macy's in Philadelphia today to set up our registry. We were excited to get started, as this was our first bridal registry experience. We found someone to help get us set up, and she talked us into signing up for their rewards program, which involved opening a credit card, and then she set us up with the Symbol scanner device and let us go. She really wasn't bad, but she eventually disappeared, and no one else in the store seemed to be able to answer any of our questions or to help us log off. We sat around for half an hour waiting for the first girl to come back, and then gave up and left. When we got home, we logged into our registry online to make sure our items came up properly, and to change a color of an item we'd selected. We were shocked to find that half of our items were available in-store only. These weren't only individual items, but pieces of collections, for example, our hand towels and wash cloths were available online, but the matching bath towels from the same set were not. Most of our guests are coming from out of town, and I know they're going to rely on purchasing gifts online - who wants washcloths without matching towels?
We spent the rest of our afternoon dismantling the registry, canceling the Macy's Visa and trying to find comparable items online.
This evening, we'll be going to Bloomingdales to give them a shot.