Wikipedia: List of department stores

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.

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

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
Åhléns, Stockholm

Switzerland

United Kingdom

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: Benard Gimbel the owner of Gimbel's along with Horace Saks founded the store 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.
Zody's, national, catered to lower class; defunct.