A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the … See more

Department stores can be classified in several ways:
• Mainline department store or simply, the traditional department store, offering mid- to high-end goods, most or at least some of the time at … See more

One of the first department stores may have been Bennett's in Derby, first established as an ironmonger (hardware shop) in 1734. It still stands to this day, trading in the same building. However, the first reliabl… See more

Incomplete list, notable stores of 50,000 m (538,196 sq ft) or more. Individual department store buildings or complexes of buildings. Does not include shopping centers (e.g. GUM in Moscow, Intime "Departme… See more

• Department stores around the world
• List of department stores by country
• Distribution, Retail, Marketing
• History of retailing in the modern era… See more

• Abelson, Elaine S. When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Adams, Samuel Hopkins (January 1897). "The Departmen… See more

• The rise of the department store in Britain
• A.T. Stewart's
• Tamilia, Robert D. (2011). The Wonderful World of the Department Store in Historical Perspective: A Comprehensive International Bibliography Partially An… See more