List of famous 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 (only branch in Melbourne 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- Farmers (New Zealand owned, since withdrawn from Australia)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
- Big W
- Target (just like the American Target, Target stores in Australia are
called "Tar-zhay" by the clever)
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Ireland
Japan
Netherlands
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States of America
- 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.
- Gottschalk's Fresno middle class retailer; primarily in California [3] (http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/factsheet.xhtml?COID=10670)
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
- ShopKo, regional, West/Midwest
- 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 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.
- 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
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