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K's Merchandise Mart, Inc. (usually known as simply K's Merchandise) was a catalog showroom department store based in Decatur, Illinois. [2] It offered furniture, jewelry, and general merchandise, including electronics, at 17 locations in 5 Midwestern states at the time of its closing. [1] [3]
This is a list of department stores of the United States currently operating. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2023)
The store was a middle-market chain focused primarily on softlines, similar to Kohl's and Mervyn's. MainStreet stores often featured a "racetrack" layout like a discounter, but checkouts were distributed around the store like a traditional department store. The first locations outside the Chicago area opened around Metro Detroit in 1986. [2]
In 1954, Big Bear Stores Co., Columbus, OH based supermarket chain purchased Harts Stores, [1] a department store that was operating at the time in the basements of two Big Bears. Harts experienced rapid growth, as Big Bear often opened grocery stores along with a Harts Department Store in an adjacent space as well as many free-standing ...
Cook's was a chain of discount department stores in the United States, from 1961 to 1987. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the chain grew to a peak of 115 stores before filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy first in 1984, then in 1987, before filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy later that year.
The flagship store in Columbus Georgia in 2009 was operating under new ownership, as Legacy Automotive. [12] Private investment company Oak Point Partners acquired the remnant assets, consisting of any known and unknown assets that weren't previously administered, from the Bill Heard Enterprises, Inc., et al., Bankruptcy Estates on November 15 ...
Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States, and was last owned by Federated Department Stores. At the height of its ...
Peebles was founded in 1891 by William Smith Peebles, who opened his first store in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Peebles mainly concentrated on small towns that didn’t have department stores, thus avoiding bigger cities and higher rents. In 1981 the company acquired The Collins Company, a line of mid-priced, comparable stores.