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Landers Superstore
Landers Superstore is a Philippine membership-only warehouse club combining a supermarket and department store, opened in Quezon City in 2016 with 16 stores by 2025.
Liverpool (department store)
Liverpool is a Mexican department store chain founded in 1847, selling apparel, home goods, furniture, and cosmetics, which took a 49.9% stake in Nordstrom in 2025.
Market Basket (New England)
Market Basket, also known as DeMoulas Market Basket, is a family-owned supermarket chain of about 90 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island, founded in 1917.
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward & Co. was an American mail-order and department-store retailer founded in Chicago in 1872 by Aaron Montgomery Ward, the world's first mail-order business.
Myer
Myer is an Australian department store group founded by Sidney Myer in regional Victoria around 1900, operating 740 stores across Australia and New Zealand with over 15,000 staff.
Normal (store)
Normal is a Danish variety-discount chain selling branded personal care, cosmetics, and household products at fixed low prices, founded in Silkeborg, Denmark in 2013 and grown to more than 900 stores across Europe.
Parisian (department store)
Parisian was a department store chain founded in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1877, known for upscale merchandise and generous service until Belk retired the name in 2007.
Pepco (retailer)
Pepco is a pan-European variety discount retailer selling family clothing, household goods, and toys at low prices, operating over 4,000 stores across Central, Eastern, and Western Europe and serving 41 million customers a month.
Piggly Wiggly
Piggly Wiggly is an American franchised grocery brand founded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916 by Clarence Saunders, whose first store introduced self-service shopping to a mass market.
Poundland
Poundland, trading as Dealz in Ireland and the Isle of Man, is a British discount variety retailer founded in 1990, known for its £1 price point and about 800 stores.
Poundstretcher
Poundstretcher is a British variety discount retailer selling food, household goods, and garden products from about 300 stores, owned by the Fortress Funds since April 2024.
Price Chopper (Northeastern United States)
Price Chopper, also branded Market 32, is a supermarket chain of 129 stores across six Northeastern states, headquartered in Schenectady, New York, and owned by Northeast Grocery.
Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue, also known as Saks & Company, is an American luxury department store chain founded in New York in 1924 by Horace Saks and Bernard Gimbel.
Saravana Stores
Saravana Stores is a family-owned discount retail group in T. Nagar, Chennai, founded in 1969 on Ranganathan Street, known for its low margin, high turnover model and cheap prices.
Sears
Sears, also known as Sears, Roebuck and Co., was an American mail-order and department-store company that became the world's largest retailer before filing for bankruptcy in 2018.
Service Merchandise
Service Merchandise was a Nashville, Tennessee-based catalog showroom chain begun by the Zimmerman family in 1934; at its peak it sold over $4 billion a year before liquidating in 2002.
Shinsegae (신세계)
Shinsegae (신세계) is a South Korean department store operator whose lineage runs from the 1930 Mitsukoshi Gyeongseong store in Seoul, now part of Shinsegae Group with E-mart.
Sklavenitis (Σκλαβενίτης)
Sklavenitis (Σκλαβενίτης) is a Greek family-owned supermarket group, the country's largest by turnover, founded in 1954 in Athens and operating 545 stores across Greece and Cyprus.
SM Supermalls
SM Supermalls, also known as SM Malls, is the shopping mall chain of SM Prime Holdings, the Philippines' largest mall operator, running 89 Philippine malls and nine in China as of 2025.
Søstrene Grene
Søstrene Grene is a Danish family-owned retail chain founded in Aarhus in 1973, selling home interior, hobby, party, and food products at low prices under its own brands.
Target Corporation
Target Corporation, formerly the Dayton Hudson Corporation, is an American general-merchandise discount retailer operating 1,978 stores with $106.6 billion in net sales in fiscal 2024.
Tesco Ireland
Tesco Ireland is the operating arm of British retail group Tesco plc, running about 190 stores and holding a 24% market share, making it the country's second-largest grocer.
Variety store
A variety store, historically the five-and-dime, sells low-priced general merchandise on a cash-and-carry basis; pioneered by F.W. Woolworth in 1879, it survives in dollar stores.
W. T. Grant
W. T. Grant was an American variety-store chain founded by William T. Grant in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1906, which collapsed in the largest American retailing bankruptcy of its time in 1975.
Wall Drug
Wall Drug, also known as Wall Drug Store, is a drugstore-turned-roadside attraction in Wall, South Dakota, founded in 1931 and famous for free ice water, 5-cent coffee, and hand-painted billboards.
Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation running discount stores, supercenters, and Sam's Club, with about 2.1 million employees and roughly 20% of all US grocery sales.
Wanamaker's
Wanamaker's, also known as John Wanamaker's, was a Philadelphia department store chain founded by John Wanamaker in 1861, known for its Grand Court, bronze eagle, and the Wanamaker Organ.
WinCo Foods
WinCo Foods, formerly Waremart, is an employee-owned, no-frills supermarket chain founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1967, with 140+ stores in ten states and one of the largest employee stock ownership plans in the United States.
Younkers
Younkers was a Midwestern department store chain founded as a dry-goods store in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1856 and long based in Des Moines; its last 49 stores closed in 2018.
Zellers
Zellers is a Canadian discount department store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1928, owned by Hudson's Bay Company, which bought it in 1978.