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List of department stores

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

Contents
1 Australia
2 Brazil
3 Canada
4 Finland
5 France
6 Hong Kong
7 Indonesia
8 Ireland
9 Japan
10 Netherlands
11 Philippines
12 Puerto Rico
13 Saudi Arabia
14 South Korea
15 Spain
16 Sweden
17 Switzerland
18 United Kingdom
19 United States of America

19.1 Defunct US Chains Not Acquired by Extant Chains

Australia

  • David Jones
  • 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.
  • K-mart
  • Big W
  • Target (just like the American Target, Target stores in Australia are called "Tar-zhay" by the clever)

Brazil

Canada

Finland

France

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

Hong Kong

  • CRC Department Store
  • Lane Crawford
  • Wing On

Indonesia

  • Matahari
  • Ramayana
  • Sogo
  • Metro

Ireland

Japan

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

Netherlands

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

Philippines

  • Robinsons Department Store [1]

Puerto Rico

  • Bargain Town
  • New York Department Stores , known popularly as La New York.

Saudi Arabia

  • Al Hamada

South Korea

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

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

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 (Florida) , 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 opulent and super-opulent.
    • Macy's in recent years this store was acquired by Federated Department Stores, store caters to middle and upper middle class, as well as affluent. 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
      • Bon Marché (Bon-Macy's),
      • Burdines (Burdines-Macy's),
      • Goldsmith's (Goldsmith's-Macy's)
      • Lazarus (Lazarus-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 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
  • 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 in 1995
    • Marshall Field & Co. , Chicago now owned by Target (Sale to May 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 high end department store, owns Bergdorf Goodman as well competes Saks and Bloomingdales.
    • Bergdorf Goodman , currently owned by Neiman Marcus Group. This is one of Sak's competitor 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 with Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdales, but Bloomies is even high end then 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)
    • 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
  • TJ Maxx and the TJX Companies , national off-price chain which also operates Marshalls and A.J. Wright

Defunct US Chains Not Acquired by Extant Chains

  • Ames
  • 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)
  • McCrory , national,
  • Montgomery Ward, first mail order store
  • Stewart's (Baltimore)
  • Woodward and Lothrop (Washington, DC)
  • 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


Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45