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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. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores.
Australia
- Anthony Hordern's (long defunct)
- Daimaru (Australian branches now closed)
- David Jones
- Farmers (New Zealand owned, since withdrawn from Australia)
- Mark Foy's (long defunct)
- Myer
- Grace Bros. (name no longer used) - since the 1980s, 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 , operated by Coles Myer
- Big W
- Target (just like the American Target, Target stores in Australia are called "Tar-zhay" by the clever), the chain is operated by Coles Myer
Brazil
Canada
- Andrew's
- Bretton's - high end department store 1985-1996
- Canadian Tire
- Consumers Distributing - catalogue store 1957-1996
- Creed's - founded 1916, defunct 1991, high-end family-owned retailer
- Dupuis Freres
- Eaton's - defunct 1999, acquired by Sears Canada
- Giant Tiger
- Holt Renfrew
- Hart Stores - eastern Canada
- Horizon - discount department store operated by Eaton's, 1967-1978
- Hudson's Bay Company - a.k.a "The Bay"
- Kmart - discount department store - sold Canadian stores to Hudson's Bay Company in 1997
- La Maison Simons
- Marks and Spencer - closed Canadian stores in 1999
- Miracle Mart - discount department store operated by Steinberg's, defunct 1986
- Morgan's - merged with Hudson's Bay Company
- Ogilvy's (La Maison Ogilvy)
- Robinson's - Ottawa-area chain, merged with Hudson's Bay Company 1990s
- Sayvette - discount department store, defunct 1970s
- Sears Canada (formerly Simpsons-Sears)
- Shop-Rite - catalogue store operated by Hudson's Bay Company in 1970s-1992
- Simpson's - merged with the Hudson's Bay Company
- Spencer's - Western Canada, bought by Eaton's
- Towers/BoniMart - sold out to Zellers in 1990
- Wal-Mart
- Woodwards - Western Canada, defunct 1993
- Woolco - discount department store acquired by Wal-Mart in 1994
- Woolworth - closed Canadian stores in 1992
- Zellers - discount department store owned by Hudson's Bay Company
Denmark
- Det Nyt Illum in Copenhagen
- Field's (department store)
- Illum Bolighus
- Magasin du Nord
- Salling
- Bruun's Galleri
Finland
France
Germany
- Kaufhof
- Karstadt
- Hertie (merged with Kaufhof)
- Horten (merged with Kaufhof)
- Müller
Hong Kong
Indonesia
- Matahari
- Ramayana
- Sogo
- Metro
Ireland
Japan
- Apita (part of UNY)
- Daiei
- Daikuma
- Daimaru
- Hankyu Department Store
- Hanshin Department Store
- Ito Yokado
- Iwataya
- Izutsuya
- Jusco (part of AEON)
- Keio Department Store
- Kintetsu Department Store
- Maruei
- Matsuya
- Matsuzakaya
- Meitetsu Department Store
- Mitsukoshi
- Printemps Ginza
- Parco
- Odakyu Department Store
- Saty (part of Mycal )
- 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
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
- Akyung
- Donga
- Galleria Department Store
- Heemang
- Hyundai
- LG
- Lotte
- Sinsegye
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States of America
- Belk America's largest privately-held department store.
- Big Lots! , national. Caters to lower class. Former names were Pic N' Save in the West and McFrugal's on the East Coast.
- Bi-Mart, almost exclusively in Washington and Oregon.
- Bon-Ton , Northeast
- BJ's Wholesale (eastern US), similar to Sam's Club
- Dillard's, National [2]
- 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, closer to 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)
- Gottschalk's Fresno middle class retailer; primarily in California [3]
- JC Penney national department store that caters to the 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 Department Stores in 1995
- Marshall Field and Company, Chicago, previously owned by Target; 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
- Stage Stores, Inc.
- Bealls (Texas and New Mexico)
- Palais Royal (Houston area)
- Peebles (Mid-Atlantic and Midwest)
- Stage (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri)
- Target, national, renowned as the "hip" mass-market discounter, called "Tar-zhay" by the clever
- TJ Maxx and the TJX Companies, national off-price chain which also operates Marshalls and A.J. Wright
Defunct U.S. chains not acquired by extant chains or liquidated
- Alexander's, declared bankruptcy in 1992 (New York metropolitan area)
- 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.
- 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 Albertsons. Circa 1968-1987.
- Hills Department Store
- 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
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