List of department stores

Dayton's, Minneapolis now Marshall Field & Co, part of Target
Dillard's, midwest, southeast, southwest
Elder-Beerman, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
Fedco, California. Membership-based department store that served middle class. Defunct.
Federated Department Stores, owns Bloomingdale's which was one of their first acquistions, Bon MarchÃÂÃÂ©, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's, and Rich's. They are currently merging all lower end stores with Macy's and hyphenating the names.
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: Benard Gimbel the owner of Gimbel's along with Horace Saks founded the store Saks Fifth Avenue.
Hudson's, Detroit now Marshall Field's, part of Target
JC Penney national department store that caters to the lower and middle class.
Kohl's: originally Midwest, but now national department store that caters to the lower and middle class
Krauss New Orleans (defunct)
Kresge's (later Kmart), going from dime store to mass market discounter, started in Detroit
Lord & Taylor national department store catering to affluent although it focuses in on American Designers
Macy's in recent years this store was acquired by Federated Department Stores, store caters to middle and upper middle class, as well as affluent. Rumors though say Bloomingdales will become even more high end and Macy's will become a lower end store on the J.C. Penney's level
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 high end department store, owns Bergdorf Goodman as well competes Saks and Bloomingdales.
Nordstrom national department stores competes with Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdales, but Bloomies is even high end then Nordstrom or Lord & Taylor
Parisian higher end department store in the south of United States, owned by Saks Group.
Saks, also known as Saks Fifth Avenue clothing and accessories only department store in Midtown Manhattan. Now it is a national store. From it's conception it has catered to the opulent and super-opulent. Competes with Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdale's.
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." Known better for electronics and appliances, clothing is lower end.
Spiegel, mostly a catalog company
Stern's owned by Federated Department Stores, on same level as Macy'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
Wal-Mart, national lower end store. Similar to Target, the defunct Caldors, and K-Mart.
Woolworth, national, classic dime store; defunct.
Zody's, national, catered to lower class; defunct.