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Mercantile Stores Company Inc. until 1998, was a traditional department store retailer operating 102 fashion apparel stores and 16 home fashion stores in 17 states. The stores were operated under 13 different nameplates and varied in size, with the average store approximating 170,000 sq ft (16,000 m 2 ).
J. Bacon's & Sons "Bacon's" , division of Mercantile Stores Company. All locations merged into sister division McAlpin's 1980s, select locations converted to Dillard's 1998 with Dillard purchase of Mercantile and the rest closed. [171] Ben Snyder's (Louisville), was founded in 1913 and later sold to Hess's in 1987.
Dillard’s, the last anchor store in MacArthur Center, is closing. Signs on the entrance to the department store, located at 200 Monticello Ave., announce to customers that the location is now ...
Jun. 10—HARLINGEN — The Dillard's Clearance Center at Valle Vista mall, which was converted from a full-spectrum store to a company discount outlet in 2018, is shutting down completely ...
Dillard's, Inc. is an American department store chain with approximately 267 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. [4] Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42.
Most locations became Dillard's when the Mercantile Stores chain was sold in 1998 for $2.9 billion (~$5.06 billion in 2023); some J. B. White locations in overlapping areas became Belk. [3] [4] [5] The defunct Augusta, Georgia store on Broad Street was purchased in June 2007 to be converted into condominiums
The chain was in business for a century from 1898 to 1998, in its later years as a division of Mercantile Stores Company. Castner Knott's historic flagship location on Nashville's Church Street closed in 1996, while the remaining stores were among those sold to Little Rock, Arkansas -based Dillard's , when it acquired Mercantile in 1998. [ 1 ]
John Dunkin moved from Oklahoma City to Tulsa to operate the store. However, B-D was an entity of its own and there was no formal connection with the Oklahoma City company. In 1959, a director of the First National Bank of St. Louis, asked Willard Dillard, owner of the Dillard's department store chain, to consider buying Brown-Dunkin.