CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – At least two of the four Macy’s department stores in New Hampshire are planning to move into Filene’s stores, which have been holding clearance sales.

The change affecting the Salem and Nashua stores is the result of last year’s $11 billion merger of Federated Department Stores and the May Co., which owned Filene’s. Federated, owner of Macy’s, had announced that it would eliminate the Filene’s name, along the names of several other national retailers.

As part of the merger, “they had to identify duplicate stores in malls, where there was a Federated store such as a Macy’s and a May Company store, such as a Filene’s” said Elina Kazan, a spokeswoman for Macy’s in New York.

Under the plan, the Macy’s stores at Nashua’s Pheasant Lane Mall and Salem’s Rockingham Park Mall will move into the Filene’s stores at the malls this year, Kazan said. The current Macy’s stores in those malls will be vacated.

“There’s going to be one new employee base,” Kazan said. Employees not given a position would be offered a compensation package, she said.

In addition, the Filene’s store at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester is to be converted into a Macy’s. Kazan said she believed the Macy’s store in Bedford will stay open.

The future of the Filene’s and Macy’s stores in the Fox Run Mall in Newington were unclear.