List of department stores by country
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
- Hudson's Bay Company - a.k.a "The Bay"
- Kmart - closed Canadian stores in 1998
- 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
France
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.
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
- Bamberger's
- Belk
- Bloomingdale's
- Carson, Pirie, Scott, Chicago, housed in an architectural landmark designed by Louis Sullivan
- Dayton's, Minneapolis now Marshall Field's, part of Target
- Federated Department Stores
- Filene's, Boston, its famous bargain basement outlasted the main store
- Fred Meyer, a department store owned by Kroger, the supermarket conglomerate
- D.H. Holmes: New Orleans (defunct)
- Dillard's, midwest, southeast, southwest
- 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
- Korvette's
- Krauss New Orleans (defunct)
- Kresge's (later Kmart), going from dime store to mass market discounter, started in Detroit
- Loehmann's
- Lord & Taylor national
- Macy's: The rivalry of Macy's and Gimbel's is immortalized in Miracle on 34th Street: now Gimbel's is gone, but Macy's lives on.
- Maison Blanche: New Orleans (defunct)
- 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.
- McCrory, national, defunct
- Mervyn's, a California-based chain specializing in clothing
- Montgomery Ward, first mail order store, now defunct
- Nieman Marcus, Dallas
- Nordstrom
- Ohrbach's
- Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City, the store that took Fifth Avenue all over the country
- Sears & Roebuck, later Sears, its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
- Spiegel, mostly a catalog company
- Stern's
- Target, national, renowned as the "hip" mass-market discounter, called "Tar-zhay" by the clever
- Troutman's Emporium, Oregon
- Wal-Mart, national
- Wannamaker
- Woolworth, national, classic dime store; defunct