This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores.
Note: "trading" is British English for "in operation".
Canadian Tire – auto repair garage, hardware, home renovations, sports, garden centre, electronics, auto parts, furniture, food, housewares, towels; franchised stores with independent owners
Costco – Canadian unit of US-based chain; warehouse superstore, food, electronics, furniture, clothing, car repair
Fields – discount chain owned by FHC Holdings Ltd.; the chain was purchased by Hudson's Bay Company in 1981 but broke away in 2012
Giant Tiger - discount chain selling groceries and general merchandise with stores in most Canadian provinces.
Hart - Department store chain founded in 1960. Stores located across Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Amherst, Nova Scotia
Real Canadian Superstore - chain of grocery stores that also carry electronics, fashion, household items, and have in-store services such as pharmacies, wine shops, GoodLife Fitness or Fit4Less locations and Mobil gas stations. Located in five provinces in Canada.
Caplan's – Ottawa, Ontario department store; founded in 1897, closed in 1984
Consumers Distributing – Canadian catalogue discount retailer (formerly Consumers Distributing Ltd., 1957 to 1996)
Dupuis Frères – Montreal department store, founded by Nazaire Dupuis (1870), closed 1978
Eaton's – went bankrupt in 1999; acquired by Sears Canada; defunct in 2002; as with the closure of Woodward's a decade earlier (see below), the vacancies left by Eaton's stores sparked a number of major shopping mall renovations and reconfigurations across the country
Freimans – longtime Ottawa retailer, acquired by the Bay in 1972
Home Outfitters – home goods store, subsidiary of Hudsons Bay Company, 1999–2019
Horizon – discount department store operated by Eaton's, 1967–1978
Kmart Canada – discount department store, usually in the suburbs, created by S.S. Kresge sold Canadian stores to Hudson's Bay Company in 1997; many of these stores closed outright; the few that remained were converted to HBC's Zellers banner
Laliberté – Quebec City department store, founded in 1867, closed 2020[1][2]
Larocque's Department Store 1923–1971 Ottawa, Ontario; constructed in 1923 to cater to the Francophone community of Lowertown; William Noffke made additions to the space in 1930; Management and ownership taken over by Joe Vineberg 1931 with relatives Harry and Sol Goodman of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Closed circa 1970–1971; now the Mercury Court Building, housing offices of Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. and shops. Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. renovated and expanded the space from 1989 to 1993. Features include a Mercury weathervane by the American sculptor W. H. Mullen, which was rescued from the Sun Life Building, demolished in 1949. The building was included amongst other architecturally interesting and historically significant buildings in Doors Open Ottawa, 2012.[3]
Goodman Department Store- New Glasgow-Antigonish-Truro in Nova Scotia-Ottawa-Montreal. Established in 1904 by Harry Goodman, his brother Sol Goodman and the Vineburg Family under the name Vineburg Goodman & Co. Goodman's was northern Nova Scotia's first and largest department store with 34 departments. The Ottawa store operated under the name of Larocque noted above. Goodman Co. closed in Antigonish, New Glasgow and Truro in 1984–1985. The stores were redeveloped shopping centres in Antigonish by developer Brian MacLeod and in New Glasgow the largest store by Brian MacLeod, and lawyers Richard Goodman Q.C. (grandson of former owner) and Gregory MacDonald Q.C.
Marks & Spencer – British retailer's Canadian stores first opened 1973 and closed 1999
Metropolitan – discount department store chain (1908–1997); sister chain of SAAN Stores and Greenberg Stores, later converted to the SAAN name
Miracle Mart – discount grocery store operated by Steinberg's, defunct 1992; some outlets of the spinoff grocery chain, Miracle Food Mart, were acquired by Dominion Stores
Ogilvy's (Charles Ogilvy Limited) – Ottawa-area chain, merged with Robinson's in the 1980s, defunct 1990s
Ogilvy's – Montreal department store, founded by James A. Ogilvy (1866), merged with Holt-Renfrew (2019)
Compagnie Paquet – Quebec City department store; founded in 1850; merged with Syndicat de Québec in the 1970s, closed in 1981[1]
Peoples – 1914–1995; discount store closed at the same time as its parent company Wise Stores; not to be confused with the Canadian jewelry store chain
Pollack – Quebec City department store; two stores in Quebec City and one in Montreal; operated from 1915 to 1978
Sentry – Ontario chain of retail department stores; various locations from Sarnia to Kingston; founded in 1961[5] by Samuel Joseph Lipson (August 15, 1911 – November 12, 2006).[6] A discount department store with the slogan "Sentry – Guards your dollar",[7] this small regional chain closed in the early 1980s.[8]
Shop-Rite – catalogue store operated by Hudson's Bay Company, 1970s-1982
Simpson's – acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company and closed 1991; name now owned by Sears Canada 2001–2008; now owned by 1373639 Alberta Ltd, a Sears Canada shell company
Simpsons-Sears Limited – name retired and renamed Sears Canada Inc.; 1952–1984
Woodward's – Western Canada; defunct 1993; most stores converted to Zellers, Walmart, and The Bay; its closure sparked a wave of major renovations and reconfigurations in malls across Canada between 1993 and the early 2000s
Woolco – discount department store, usually in the suburbs, acquired by Wal-Mart in 1994
Woolworth's – closed Canadian stores in 1994, though some became Woolco (such as the Whitehorse outlet); others that did not close outright were reconfigured and rebranded as The Bargain! Shop
Yaohan – single location in Vancouver of Japanese chain in the late 1990s
Zellers – discount retailer chain (1931–2020), store leases purchased by Target Canada in 2011, with brand name replaced & stores changed to Target in 2013. The last two stores using the Zellers name, were closed in 2020. In spring 2023 HBC re-opened some Zellers stores within select Hudson's Bay Stores
Sanborns – division of Carso Comercial, nationwide, famous for their coffee-shop-style restaurant, bars, and compact merchandise areas selling limited selections of giftable merchandise, pharmacy, newsstand, and cosmetics.
Tiendas Capri - department store chain, founded in 1963.[9]
Me Salvé - discount department store chain, founded in 1982.
Grand Way - discount department store chain, founded in 2013.[10]
Grand Stores - discount department store chain, founded in 1984.[11]
JCPenney - national department store chain, established on the island in 1968 at the Plaza Las Américas shopping mall.
Macy's - national department store chain, established on the island in the year 2000 at the Plaza Las Américas shopping mall, expanded with another store on the island in 2015 at the Plaza del Caribe shopping mall.
Sears - national department store chain, established on the island in 1937,[12] downsized with multiple closures, one store left at the Plaza Las Américas shopping mall as of today.
González Padín - high-end department store chain, founded in 1884, biggest and oldest local department store on the island until closure in 1995 due to economic problems.
Es de Velasco - high-end department store chain, founded in 1939, acquired by competitor González Padín in 1991, closed in 1995.
Pitusa - discount department store chain, founded in 1976, downsized due to economic problems and ultimately closed last stores in 2014 after bankruptcy.
Topeka - discount department store chain, founded in 1967, downsized due to economic problems ultimately closing in the 2010s.
Kmart - national department store chain, established on the island in 1964 at the San Patricio Plaza shopping mall, closed last store in 2022 located at the Plaza Las Américas shopping mall.
Barkers - discount department store chain, established on the island in 1962,[13] ultimately closed in 1984.
J. C. Penney – two stores in Santiago area (one in Alto Las Condes as a full-store, one in Parque Arauco as an only-furniture store); closed because of poor sales in 1999; converted to Almacenes París and Casa&Ideas stores.
Gala-Sears – five stores (one full store and four minor stores) in Santiago area; Chilean division of Sears; closed because of poor sales in 1983; converted to Falabella.
Muricy – two stores in Santiago area; closed because of bankruptcy in 1990; converted to Almacenes París.
Supermarkets and discount stores:
Jumbo – supermarket chain, belongs to the Cencosud Group
Líder – supermarket chain, belongs to the D&S Company, a Walmart joint venture
Wing On – after civil war in 1949, the store's business moved outside China to Hong Kong; its properties and asset in China were nationalized under the Communist system
Tangs – A store in Starhill Center, KL but closed down in 2004; made their comeback debut at Pavilion KL before Pavilion branch closed down. Currently have branches at 1 Utama, Empire Subang, Genting Grand Hotel & First World Plaza (including a factory store outlet at Genting Premium Outlets) and The Shore, Melaka.[19]
AK Plaza – five branches throughout the country, Main shop in Guro, SW Seoul and Bundang new city and Suwon & Pyeongtaek station shop, A AeKyung group company
Galleria Department Store – six or five branches throughout South Korea, because EAST and WEST are considered one store in Gangnam, Southern Seoul, Main department store in Daejeon & Cheninan, Chungnam area. A Hanwha group subsidiary.
Happy World (Haengbokhan Sesang) Department Store – Yangcheon-gu, Mokdong, Seoul
Hyundai Department Store – 15 branches throughout the country main brand in Gangnam Apgujeong dong & Gangnam coex shop, Pangyo new city & Kintex shop at NE Seoul exhibition center
Lotte Department Store – more than 30 branches throughout the country, including three Young Plazas and one Avenuel at jamsil 123-storey skyscraper mall complex, 8 overseas branches in Russia, Moscow, China, Vietnam, Hanoi, and Indonesia, Jakarta The top department stores with Lotte hotel complex.
NC Department Store - Part of E-land group company, it has 19 branches throughout the nation including Seoul Garden 5 mall, Southern Seoul along with Hyudnai city mall.
Shinsegae Department Store – 13 branches throughout the country including Myeongdong shop and starfield mall in Hanam SE Seoul & Goyang, Northern Seoul.
^Dept., Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services (7 December 2017). "Doors Open Ottawa". Ottawa.ca. Retrieved 1 February 2018.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)