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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.
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- Canadian Tire
- Chapters Books[?]
- Future Shop[?]
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Real Canadian Superstore[?]
- Shoppers Drugmart[?]
- Zellers[?]
- and many stores from the US section.
- Bijenkorf[?] (part of Vendex KBB[?])
- Hema[?] (ditto)
- Vroom & Dreesmann[?] (ditto)
- New York Department Stores[?], known popularly as La New York.
- 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[?]
- Abraham & Straus[?]
- Bamberger's[?]
- 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[?]
- 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)
- 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[?]
- Korvette's[?]
- Krauss[?] New Orleans (defunct)
- Kresge's[?] (later K-Mart[?]), going from dime store[?] to mass market discounter[?], started in Detroit
- Loehmann's[?]
- Lord & Taylor[?]
- 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.
- Mervyn's[?], a California-based chain specializing in clothing
- Montgomery Ward[?], first mail order[?] store, now defunct
- Nieman Marcus[?], Dallas
- Nordstrom
- Old Navy[?]
- 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[?], renowned as the "hip" mass-market discounter, called "Tar-zhay" by the clever
- Troutman's Emporium[?], Oregon
- Wal-Mart
- Wannamaker[?]
- Woolworth, classic dime store[?]
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