List of department stores

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This is a list of department stores. Most of these stores have many branches. The location of the flagship store is given.

Australia

• Archie Martin Vox (now defunct, some stores being sold to Harvey Norman)
• Daimaru (only branch in Melbourne now closed)
• David Jones
• Harvey Norman
• Myer
• Grace Bros. (not any more) - Both Myer and Grace Bros. were owned by the same corporation, Coles Myer Pty. Ltd. Eventually Coles Myer renamed Grace Bros. to Myer to save money on advertising and bags etc.
• IKEA
• K-mart
• Big W
• Target (just like the American Target, Target stores in Australia are called "Tar-zhay" by the clever)

Brazil

• C&A
• Lojas Americanas - a.k.a. "Americanas"
• Wal-Mart

Canada

• Canadian Tire
• Eaton's - defunct 1999, acquired by Sears Canada
• Hudson's Bay Company - a.k.a "The Bay"
• Kmart - closed Canadian stores in 1998
• Marks and Spencer - closed Canadian stores in 1999
• Sears
• Simpson's - merged with the Hudson's Bay Company
• Towers - sold out to Zellers in 1990
• Wal-Mart
• Woodwards - Western Canada, defunct 1993
• Woolco - sold out to Wal-Mart in 1994
• Woolworth - closed Canadian stores in 1992
• Zellers
• ikea

Denmark

• Det Nyt Illum in Copenhagen
• Field's (department store)
• Illum Bolighus
• Magasin du Nord

Finland

• Stockmann,Helsinki
• Sokos,Helsinki
• Anttila,Helsinki

France

• Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville (BHV)
• Le Bon Marché
• Galeries Lafayette
• Nouvelles Galeries
• Printemps
• La Samaritaine

Hong Kong

• CRC Department Store
• Daimaru (branches now closed in Hong Kong)
• Jusco
• IKEA
• Lane Crawford
• Marks & Spencer
• Mitsukoshi
• Seiyu
• Sincere
• Sogo
• UNY
• Wing On

Indonesia

• Matahari
• Ramayana
• Sogo
• Metro

Ireland

• Arrnots
• Debenhams (originally Debenham & Freebody)
• Dunnes Stores
• Roaches Stores
• Marks and Spencer

Japan

• Daimaru
• Hankyu Department Store
• Hanshin Department Store
• Iwataya
• Izutsuya
• Jusco
• Keio Department Store
• Kintetsu Department Store
• Lotte
• Maruei
• Matsuya
• Matsuzakaya
• Meitetsu Department Store
• Mitsukoshi
• Printemps Ginza
• Odakyu Department Store
• Seibu Department Store
• Seiyu
• Sogo
• Takashimaya
• Tobu Department Store
• Tokyu Department Store
• UNY

Netherlands

• Bijenkorf (part of Vendex KBB)
• Hema (ditto)
• Vroom & Dreesmann (ditto)

Philippines

• Robinsons Department Store [1]

Puerto Rico

• Macy's
• JC Penney
• Kmart
• Sears, Roebuck and Company
• Wal-Mart

Saudi Arabia

• Al Hamada

South Korea

• Akyung
• Donga
• Galleria Department Store
• Heemang
• Hyundai
• LG
• Lotte
• Sinsegye

Spain

• El Corte Inglés
• IKEA

Sweden

• IKEA
• Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm and Gothenburg
• Åhléns, Stockholm

Switzerland

• Jelmoli, Zürich
• Globus, Zürich

United Kingdom

• Allders
  • incorporating Arding & Hobbs (Clapham Junction)
• Army & Navy
• Barkers
• Beale's
• Bentalls
• British Home Stores
• David Morgan (Cardiff)
• C&A (defunct)
• Debenhams (originally Debenham & Freebody)
• Dingles Plymouth
• Fenwicks
• Harrods
• Harvey Nichols
• House of Fraser
• James Howells (Cardiff)
• Jarrolds (Norwich
• Jenners (Edinburgh)
• Jollys
• John Lewis
• Liberty
• Littlewoods
• Marks and Spencer
• Poundstretcher
• Ricemans (Canterbury)
• T.J. Hughes
• Selfridges
• Sogo
• Jessops(Nottingham) Bought by John Lewis Partnership in 1933 but kept its name intil 2001 when a major refurbishment had been completed. It's now called John Lewis like the majority of the partnership's stores.

United States of America

• Big Lots!, national. Caters to lower class. Former names were Pic N' Save in the West and McFrugal's on the East Coast.
• Dillard's, midwest, southeast, southwest west [2]
  • D.H. Holmes (New Orleans)
  • Maison Blanche (South-east), stores are now Dillard's
  • Mercantile Stores (Cincinnati)
  • Stix, Baer, Fuller

• Elder-Beerman, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic

• Federated Department Stores.
  • Abraham & Straus on level with Macy's and Sterns. FDS closed both A&S and Sterns within the last few years. Both were mainly New York Stores
  • Bloomingdale's High-end department store, owned by Federated Department Stores, caters to wealthy and super-wealthy.
  • Macy's - probably the strongest nationwide middle class department store brand. In recent years this store was acquired by Federated Department Stores, caters mostly to middle and upper middle class, as well as some of the upper class. Rumors though say Bloomingdales will become even more high end and Macy's will become a lower end store on the J.C. Penney level. All the names hyphenated with Macy's below will be merged directly into Macy's by the end of 2005.
    • Bon Marché (Bon-Macy's),
    • Burdines (Burdines-Macy's),
    • Goldsmith's (Goldsmith's-Macy's)
    • Lazarus (Lazarus-Macy's)
    • Liberty House (defunct, merged into Macy's)
    • Rich's (Rich's-Macy's)
    • Davidson's (defunct, merged into Macy's)
    • Bambergers (defunct, merged into Macy's)
    • Stern's (defunct, merged into Macy's)

• Fred Meyer, a department store (technically, a hypermarket) in the Pacific Northwest owned by Kroger, the supermarket conglomerate

• Gottschalk's Fresno middle class retailer; primarily in California [3]

• JC Penney national department store that caters to the lower and middle class.

• Kohl's originally Midwest, but now national department store that caters to the lower and middle class

• Kresge's (later Kmart), going from dime store to mass market discounter, started in Detroit

• May Department Stores
  • Famous Barr Midwest
  • Filene's, New England
  • Foley's, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico
  • Hecht's, Mid Atlantic
  • Kaufmann's, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
  • L.S. Ayres Indiana
  • Meier & Frank Washington, Oregon, Utah
  • Robinsons-May California, Arizona, Nevada
  • Strawbridge's Pennsylvania
  • Lord & Taylor national department store catering to affluent although it focuses on American designers
    • Wanamaker's original flagship store in Philadelphia: chain bought by May Department Stores in 1995
  • Marshall Field and Company, Chicago now owned by Target (Sale to May Department Stores announced June 2004); first store with a bridal registry
    • Dayton's, Minneapolis now Marshall Field & Co
    • Hudson's, Detroit now Marshall Field's
    • Donaldson's (defunct) (Minneapolis) (by way of Carson Pirie Scott, Mervyn's Minneapolis)

• Meijer, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky

• Neiman Marcus, Dallas very high end department store catering to wealthy upper classes, owns Bergdorf Goodman as well competes Saks and Bloomingdales.
  • Bergdorf Goodman, currently owned by Neiman Marcus Group. This is one of Saks' competitors on 5th Avenue. The store caters to the opulent clients in New York, Long Island as well as aristocracy domestic and aboard.
• Nordstrom national department stores competes for upper class with Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdales, but some consumers consider "Bloomies" to be even higher than Nordstrom or Lord & Taylor

• Saks
  • Bergner's (Illinois)
  • Boston Store (Wisconsin)
  • Carson Pirie Scott (Illinois)
  • Gimbel's: (defunct) The rivalry of Macy's and Gimbel's is immortalized in Miracle on 34th Street: Benard Gimbel the owner of Gimbel's along with Horace Saks founded the store Saks Fifth Avenue.
  • Herberger's (Upper Great Plains)
  • I. Magnin (defunct)
  • McRae's (Southeast)
  • Parisian (Southeast)
  • Proffitt's (Southeast)
  • Saks Fifth Avenue (National) upscale, caters to wealthy
  • Younkers (Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin)

• Sears, Roebuck and Company, later Sears, originally of Chicago, its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker." Known better for electronics and appliances, clothing is lower end.

• Spiegel, mostly a catalog company

• ShopKo, regional, West/Midwest

• Target, national, renowned as the "hip" mass-market discounter, called "Tar-zhay" by the clever
  • Mervyn's, a California-based chain specializing in clothing; caters to middle class; in process of phaseout by Target, with some stores being acquired by May Department Stores

• Pamida

• TJ Maxx and the TJX Companies, national off-price chain which also operates Marshalls and A.J. Wright

• Wal-Mart, national discount store catering primarily to lower and middle classes, trying to transform itself into a hypermarket with its new Supercenters
• Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota
• WiseBuys, founded 2003 in Governeur, New York; acquired an Ames in Canton, New York as its first location.

Defunct US Chains Not Acquired by Extant Chains or Liquidated

• Ames
• B. Altman and Company (New York City)
• The Broadway (Southern California) Headquartered in Los Angeles. Part of defunct Carter Hawley Hale Stores. Retailer for many decades finally closed for good in 1991.
• BJ's Wholesale (eastern US), similar to Sam's Club
• Bradlees
• Caldor
• Fedco (Southern California) Membership-based department store - including grocery, and in some locations, furniture - that served middle class. Went bankrupt. Circa 1950-1994.
• Fedmart (Southern California) First mass-market discount retail/grocery chain Sol Price founded. Was headquartered in San Diego in the 92111 Zip Code. Price voluntarily closed the chain. Price later founded Price Club based upon what he learned from his Fedmart days. Price Club has since been merged into Costco. Circa 1965-75.
• Gemco (California) Membership department store with grocery. Operated as subsidiary of Lucky Stores until liquidated in early 1987 due to hostile takeover attempts. Lucky was later acquired into what is now called Albertson's. Circa 1968-1987.
• Hills
• Hochschild Kohn's (Baltimore)
• Hutzler's (Baltimore)
• Krauss (New Orleans)
• S. H. Kress & Co.
• McCrory, national,
• Montgomery Ward, first mail order store
• Stewart's (Baltimore)
• Woodward and Lothrop (Washington, DC); stores were acquired by The Hecht Company (Hecht's) and rebranded.
• Woolworth, national, classic dime store
• W. T. Grant national. Stores called Grant's or (the larger stores) Grant City.
• Zayre
• Zody's, national, catered to lower class

See also: List of companies