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.

Table of contents

1 Canada 2 Finland 3 France 4 Netherlands 5 Puerto Rico 6 Saudi Arabia 7 Spain 8 Sweden 9 Switzerland 10 United Kingdom 11 United States of America

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 Sears
• 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

Finland

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

France

• Le Bon Marche
• Galeries Lafayette
• Au Printemps
• La Samaritane

Netherlands

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

Puerto Rico

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

Saudi Arabia

• Al Hamada

Spain

• Corte del Inglés

Sweden

• Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm and Gothenburg
• Ċhléns, Stockholm

Switzerland

• Jelmoli, Zürich
• Globus, Zürich

United Kingdom

• Allders
• Army & Navy
• Barkers
• Beale's
• Bentalls
• British Home Stores
• David Morgan (Cardiff)
• C&A (defunct)
• Debenhams (originally Debenham & Freebody)
• Dingles
• Fenwick
• Harrods
• Harvey Nichols
• House of Fraser
• James Howells (Cardiff)
• Jenners (Edinburgh)
• Jollys
• John Lewis
• Liberty
• Littlewoods
• Marks and Spencer
• Ricemans (Canterbury)
• T.J. Hughes
• Selfridges
• Sogo

United States of America

• Abraham & Straus A&S was owned by Federated Department Stores, 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
• 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.
• Bloomingdale's High-end department store, caters to opulent and super-opulent.
• Dayton's, Minneapolis now Marshall Field & Co, part of Target
• Dillard's, midwest, southeast, southwest
• Elder-Beerman, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
• Federated Department Stores, owns Bloomingdale's which was one of their first acquistions, Bon Marché, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's, and Rich's. They are currently merging all lower end stores with Macy's and hypenating the names.
• Foley's, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico; owned by May Department Stores
• Fred Meyer, a department store in the Pacific Northwest owned by Kroger, the supermarket conglomerate
• D.H. Holmes: New Orleans (defunct)
• Gimbel's: The rivalry of Macy's and Gimbel's is immortalized in Miracle on 34th Street: Gimbel's merged with Saks to form Saks Fifth Avenue.
• Hudson's, Detroit now Marshall Field's, part of Target
• 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
• Krauss New Orleans (defunct)
• Kresge's (later Kmart), going from dime store to mass market discounter, started in Detroit
• Lord & Taylor national department store catering to affluent although it focuses in on American Designers
• 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. Penny's level
• Maison Blanche: New Orleans (defunct), stores are now Dillard's
• Marshall Field & Co, Chicago now owned by Target; first store with a bridal registry
• May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows. Owns the Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, Kaufmann's, and Robinsons-May brands.
• Meijer, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky
• McCrory, national, defunct
• Mervyn's, a California-based chain specializing in clothing; owned by Target
• Montgomery Ward, first mail order store, now defunct
• Neiman Marcus, Dallas high end department store, owns Bergdorf Goodman as well competes Saks and Bloomingdales.
• Nordstrom national department stores competes with Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdales, but Bloomies is even high end then Nordstrom or Lord & Taylor
• Parisian higher end department store in the south of United States, owned by Saks Group.
• Saks, also known as Saks Fifth Avenue clothing and accessories only department store in Midtown Manhattan. Now it is a national store. From it's conception it has catered to the opulent and super-opulent. Competes with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdale's.
• 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
• Stern's owned by Federated Department Stores, on same level as Macy's
• 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
• Wal-Mart, national lower end store. Similar to Target, the defunct Caldors, and K-Mart.
• Woolworth, national, classic dime store; defunct.

See also: List of companies