I am a big fan of jeans that have a boot cut. Not straight, not slim, and regular is meh. Boot cut is where its at.
Lucky Brand jeans are a trend, do you want to spend $108 or $120 on a pair of jeans? Granted the material is really nice, but you can pop over to Express and have jeans just as soft for $40.
Macy's is hit or miss. For instance some Macy stores carry Lacoste, some do not carry it what so ever. You can't ever rely on them unless you go to fucking Chicago.
Levi's are in Kohls, JC Penny, Sears, all kinds of stores. Hell even Wal-Mart probably...
I know Levi's can run $100+, but they do throw a nice bang for the buck.