List of department stores

Alco-Duckwall Retail Stores
Bamberger's
Belk
Bergdorf Goodman, now owned by Neiman Marcus Grp. Sak's competitor on 5th Avenue. Caters to the opulent clients in New York, Long Island as well as aristocracy domestic and aboard
Bloomingdale'sHigh-end department store, caters to opulent and super-opulent
Bon-Ton, northeast
Boscov's, family-owned chain in the Mid-Atlantic region
Carson, Pirie, Scott, Chicago, housed in an architectural landmark designed by Louis Sullivan
Dayton's, Minneapolis now Marshall Field & Co, part of Target
Dillard's, midwest, southeast, southwest
Dollar General
Elder-Beerman, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
Federated Department Stores, owns Bloomingdale's, Bon March� and Bon-Macy's, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's, and Rich's
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. 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
Nordstrom
Ohrbach's
Pamida
Saks, besides its flagship Saks Fifth Avenue chain acquired in 1998, operates Proffitt's, Younkers, Carson Pirie Scott, Boston Store, and Bergner's, plus the Off 5th
Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City, the store that took Fifth Avenue all over the country
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"
Spiegel, mostly a catalog company
Stern'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
Troutman's Emporium, Oregon
Wal-Mart, national
Wannamaker
Woolworth, national, classic dime store; defunct