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Exploring Department Stores Around the World

Test your knowledge about department stores around the world, their history, and their significance in various countries.

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1 France's major upscale department stores are Galeries Lafayette and Le Printemps, which both have flagship stores on Boulevard Haussmann in ________ and branches around the country.

2 ________ was opened in 1909 by the American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge, and thus became London's seventh department store.

3 Discount department stores commonly have central customer ________ areas, generally in the front area of the store.

4 The Stockmann department store in central ________ is the biggest department store in the entire Nordic countries and a famous landmark of Helsinki.

5 Today, the Chilean department store Falabella is one of the most prominent in the country, with branches in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, San Juan, Mendoza, and ________.

6 Before the 1950s, the department store held an eminent place in both Canada and ________, during both the Great Depression and World War II.

7 Dorian's, Mexican Department stores present only in Mexico and ________.

8 Philadelphia's ________ performed a 19th century redevelopment to the former Pennsylvania Railroad terminal in that city and eventually opened a modern day department store in the building.

9 ________ eventually became department stores as small towns became cities.

10 ________ is one of the UK's most popular department stores.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya.
  • The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut".
  • five years before he was cast as banker Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show, Gale Gordon played the co-owner of a department store on the NBC sitcom Sally.
  • the 1964 CBS sitcom Many Happy Returns featured character actor John McGiver managing the complaints division of a fictitious California department store.
  • the ghost town of Ajax, Utah was centered on an 11,000 square foot (1,000 m²) department store lying entirely underground.
  • the German KarstadtQuelle AG is the largest department store corporation in Europe with over 100,000 employees.
  • Julius Garfinckel, founder of the department store Garfinckel's, died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday.
  • John Little, established in 1845, is the oldest department store in Singapore.
  • Boans, a department store in Perth, Australia, was once the largest private employer in Western Australia.
  • B. Dalton, once the second-largest bookstore in the U.S., was founded in 1966 by the Dayton's department store chain.
  • Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city.
  • Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg, opened in 1785, was the largest shopping mall of the 18th-century Russia and remains one of the oldest continuously existing department stores in the world.
  • H. O. West dropped out of Louisiana College to work at a lumber mill before he assembled a chain of thirty-three department stores.
  • department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati's Forest Fair Mall.
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