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List of defunct retailers of the United States

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Across the United States an extremely large number of store chains became defunct between the 1950s, when the format was introduced, and the 1990s when most chains were either consolidated or liquidated. Some have been lost due to mergers. Below is a list of defunct retailers of the United States.

Discount stores

Five and dime / Variety

Home improvement stores

Department stores

  • Alexander's (New York metropolitan area). Declared bankruptcy in 1992.
  • B. Altman and Company (New York City).
  • Barnes-Woodin Co. (Yakima, Washington)
  • L.L. Berger (Buffalo). Catered to upper middle class customers. Its last store, in downtown Buffalo, closed in 1991.
  • Best & Company (New York). A department store exclusively for children of the well-to-do. Once one of the cluster of grand New York department stores on 5th Avenue, closed in the 1960s.
  • C.J. Breier Co. a department store chain of about 56 located in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
  • Britt's Department Stores
  • The Broadway (Southern California). Headquartered in Los Angeles. Part of defunct Carter Hawley Hale Stores. Retailer for many decades; finally closed for good in 1991.
  • Bonwit Teller (New York City, Boston, and Upstate New York). High-end clothier that was primarily a women's clothing store; however, in later years it had a small men's department. All but two stores, located in Buffalo and Boston closed the early 1990s, soon after being purchased by the Australian company L.J. Hooker Company. Hooker then sold the chain to Syracuse-based Pyramid Companies, which then opened a store in their Carousel Center. Pyramid had originally planned to expand the chain, but never did so. The Syracuse store was the last to close, doing so in 2000.
  • Buffum's
  • City of Paris (department store) (San Francisco)
  • Coyle & Richardson (Charleston, WV)
  • Crowley's (Detroit)
  • Doerflinger's (LaCrosse, WI) closed in the 1980's
  • Elvins' (Puyallup, WA)
  • England Brothers (Pittsfield, MA) closed 1988
  • Fauchald's (Minot, nd)
  • Farrel& Eddy (Camas, WA) operated in several different forms between 1902 and going out of business in 1998.
  • Gantos (Grand Rapids)
  • Garfinckel's (Washington, D.C.)
  • Gimbel's: (defunct) 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 Saks Fifth Avenue.
  • Goudchaux's (Baton Rouge). Purchased Maison Blanche in 1980's, converted to that nameplate exclusively soon after.
  • Goldblatt's (Chicago) Some Goldblatt's stores were acquired by Ames.
  • Gold's of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE)
  • Goodman's (San Francisco)
  • Gutman's (Baltimore)
  • Hale Bros. (San Francisco)
  • Heer's (Springfield, MO) closed c.1989
  • Hens and Kelly (Buffalo). Department store chain catering to blue-collar and middle class families.
  • Henshey's A successful store in Santa Monica untill an earthquake in 1994 destroyed the building.
  • Herpolsheimer's (Grand Rapids, Muskegon). Became Lazarus 1987; permanently closed its doors in 1992. The original Herpolsheimer's store is immortalized in The Polar Express.
  • Hess's
  • Hills Department Store.
  • Hinshaw's
  • Hochschild Kohn's (Baltimore).
  • D.H. Holmes (New Orleans)
  • Hutzler's (Baltimore).
  • I. Magnin (defunct) owned by Federated; some stores converted to Saks Fifth Avenue nameplate. San Francisco Union Square ___location incorporated into adjacent Macy's.
  • Jacobson's (Jackson, Michigan). Independent regional luxury department store chain located primarily in Michigan and Florida, but also had stores in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Kansas. The last store sadly closed its doors in early 2002.
  • Jenss (Buffalo) Independent high-end department store chain closed their last ___location on 15 September 2000.
  • E.J. Korvette (New York City) closed 1980.
  • Krauss (New Orleans, downtown) Single ___location on Canal Street at Basin closed in 1997.
  • A.W. Lucas (Bismarck, nd)
  • Maison Blanche
  • McRae's (Belk in 2006)
  • Miller & Paine (Lincoln, Nebraska)
  • S. H. Kress & Co.. Puerto Rico subsidiary Tiendas Kress lives on, having survived parent company.
  • Lamson Brothers (Toledo) bankrupt, 1976. Landmark downtown store built in 1928 as Toledo's finest department store. After bankruptcy, newly-opened Franklin Park Mall store purchased by Jacobson's for expansion into Toledo market.
  • Lasalle & Koch (Toledo) Bought by R.H. Macy in 1923; operated under the Lasalle name until 1982, when Macy consolidated Lasalle's with another division, Taylor's of Kansas City, to form Macy's Midwest. Macy sold the Midwest division to Elder Beerman of Dayton, Ohio in 1985.
  • The Lion Dry Goods Co. (Toledo). Known locally as The Lion Store. Some locations survive with the Dillard's name, following their 1998 purchase of Lion's previous owner, Mercantile Stores Co.
  • Lit Brothers (Philadelphia) closed in 1977.
  • Lombaugh's (Easton, PA)
  • MacDougall-Southwick (Seattle)
  • McCrory (national).
  • MainStreet Chicago - Acquired by Kohl's in 1988
  • Maison Blanche (New Orleans) Last operated under that name by Mercantile Department stores. Remaining Maison Blanche stores converted to Dillards in 1998.
  • Montgomery Ward. First mail order store. Founded in 1872, Montgomery Ward pioneered mail-order catalog retailing and opened its first retail store in 1926. A bankruptcy reorganization in 1999 failed to turn the chain around. Closed 2001. Still exists as a catalog/internet/mail order retailer.
  • New York Department Store (Minot, ND,Centralia, WA-Separate owners)
  • O'Connor, Moffat (San Francisco)
  • Ohrbach's. Liquidated in 1987 and acquired by Howland-Steinbach.
  • Ontario Store (Grand Forks, ND)
  • People's (Tacoma, WA) Store closed for good in 1983.
  • Rhodes Brothers (Tacoma, WA) Company established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma. The store greatly expanded through the years including having a tea room, a branch library and a separate budget store. A mall ___location was planned for 1973 but the company went bankrupt in 1974.
  • Pizitz (Birmingham, Al)
  • Rink's (Ohio).
  • Sage-Allen (Hartford).
  • Sakowitz (Houston).
  • Sattler's (Buffalo).
  • Schlessinger Department Stores
  • Schulte-United
  • Steiger's (Springfield, MA) closed 1994
  • Steinbach's (New Jersey locations)
  • Sterling & Welch (Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Stern's (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)
  • Stewart's (Baltimore).
  • Wahl's (Bellingham, Wa)
  • Weinstein's (San Francisco)
  • Weinstock's Division of the Broadway chain.
  • Wieboldt's (Chicago)
  • Zollinger-Harned Co. (Allentown, PA)

Department stores involved with Federated and May

Warehouse clubs

Catalog showrooms

Electronics

Sports

Toy stores

Drug Stores

Grocery stores

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