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 France 3 Netherlands 4 Puerto Rico 5 Saudi Arabia 6 Spain 7 Sweden 8 Switzerland 9 United Kingdom 10 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
• 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

• 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

• Jelmoli, Zurich
• Globus, Zurich

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
• Alco-Duckwall Retail Stores
• 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
• Dillard's, midwest, southeast, southwest
• Dollar General
• Federated Department Stores
• Filene's, Boston, its famous bargain basement outlasted the main store
• 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
• Kohl's: originally Midwest, but now 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 as a part of Federated Department Stores.
• 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.
• 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
• Nordstrom
• Ohrbach's
• Pamida
• 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

See also: List of companies