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Action (store)
Action is a Dutch non-food discount retailer founded in 1993 by Gerard Deen and Rob Wagemaker, selling low-priced household goods from over 3,300 stores in 14 European countries.
Aldi Nord
Aldi Nord is a German hard-discount grocery retailer headquartered in Essen, formed when the Albrecht brothers split their stores in 1961; it owns Trader Joe's.
Aldi Süd
Aldi Süd, also known as Aldi South, is a German discount grocery chain with about 7,000 stores in eleven countries, created when the Albrecht brothers split their business in 1961.
ALE-HOP
ALE-HOP is a Spanish family-owned variety store chain founded in 2001. It sells low-priced impulse products and operates more than 360 locations across Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Croatia.
Attempted acquisition of Albertsons by Kroger
The attempted acquisition of Albertsons by Kroger, also known as the Kroger-Albertsons merger, was a $24.6 billion deal announced in October 2022 and blocked by federal and state courts in December 2024.
B&M
B&M, also known as B&M Bargains, is a British variety discount retailer selling branded goods at low prices, founded in Blackpool in 1978 and operating about 800 UK stores.
Big Lots
Big Lots, formerly Consolidated Stores Corporation, is an American discount retail chain founded in 1967 that sells closeout furniture, home goods, and food at low prices.
Big W
Big W is an Australian discount department store chain owned by Woolworths Group, operating 178 stores that sell toys, home goods, apparel, and technology at everyday low prices.
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale's is an upscale American department store chain founded in New York in 1872, owned by Macy's, Inc., with its flagship at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
Burlington (discount store)
Burlington Stores, also known as Burlington Coat Factory, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1972 in New Jersey, with 1,287 stores and $11.5 billion in sales.
Daiso (ダイソー)
Daiso, or Daiso Industries Co., Ltd., is a Japanese variety-store chain founded in 1977 and headquartered in Higashihiroshima, known for 100-yen household goods at nearly 5,900 stores worldwide.
Dali Everyday Grocery
Dali Everyday Grocery, whose Swiss parent is Dali Discount AG, is a Philippine hard-discount grocery chain founded in 2020, running over 1,300 small no-frills stores selling mostly private-label goods.
Discount store
A discount store is a self-service retail store selling broad general merchandise at low prices, spanning full-line discounters like Walmart and Target and hard discounters like Aldi.
Dollar Tree
Dollar Tree, founded in 1986 as Only $1.00, is an American discount variety store chain selling at a $1.25 base price, with 9,282 stores after selling Family Dollar in 2025.
Dollarama
Dollarama is a Canadian discount retailer founded by Larry Rossy in 1992, with 1,691 stores selling general merchandise at fixed prices up to $5.00, plus operations in Latin America and Australia.
Don Quijote (ドン・キホーテ) (store)
Don Quijote (ドン・キホーテ), known as Donki or Don Don Donki overseas, is a Japanese discount store chain that opened its first store in Tokyo in 1989.
El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés, also known as Grupo El Corte Inglés, is a Spanish department-store group founded in 1940, with hypermarkets, travel, insurance, and finance businesses.
Empire Company
Empire Company Limited is a Stellarton, Nova Scotia holding company whose principal asset is Sobeys, a national grocer with over 1,600 stores and about $32 billion in annual sales.
Exemplar Luxury Group
Exemplar Luxury Group, formerly Saks Global, is an American luxury retail collective operating Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman; it took the new name in 2026 on emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Family Dollar
Family Dollar is an American discount variety-store chain founded in 1959 in Charlotte, North Carolina, selling merchandise at $1 to $10 price points to lower-income customers.
Five Below
Five Below is an American extreme-value discount retailer headquartered in Philadelphia, selling toys, snacks, fashion, and tech to tweens and teens, with most products priced at $5 and below.
Fred Meyer
Fred Meyer is a chain of large hypermarkets in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, founded by Fred G. Meyer in Portland, Oregon, in 1922 and owned by Kroger since 1999.
Future Group
Future Group was an Indian retail group founded by Kishore Biyani, known for Big Bazaar, whose retail arm entered insolvency after a failed 2020 sale to Reliance.
General store
A general store is a rural shop selling groceries, dry goods, and hardware, historically serving as the credit, banking, postal, and social center of its community.
Harrods
Harrods, also known as Harrods department store, is a British luxury department store in Knightsbridge, London, founded as a grocery shop by Henry Charles Harrod in 1849.
Harrods Group
Harrods Group is the corporate group centered on Harrods, the luxury department store in Knightsbridge, London, owned by Qatar Investment Authority since 2010, which also runs Harrods Estates, H Beauty, and Harrods Aviation.
History of Target Corporation
Target Corporation began as the Dayton Company, a Minneapolis department-store business incorporated in 1902, opened its first Target store in Roseville, Minnesota, in 1962, and reached $106.6 billion in fiscal 2024 net sales.
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company, also known as Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, was a Canadian retail company chartered in 1670 that held a fur-trade monopoly over Rupert's Land before becoming a department store operator.
Kmart
Kmart is an American discount department store chain founded in 1962 by the S.S. Kresge Company, which shrank from over 2,100 stores to a handful by 2024.
Kohl's
Kohl's Corporation is an American department store retailer with more than 1,100 stores, known for off-mall locations, Kohl's Cash, and in-store Sephora shops and Amazon return counters.