For over a century, shopping at department stores has been a beloved American pastime. Since the post-war economic boom of the 1950s, Americans have adopted retail consumerism and tied it to the American dream.
From locally owned shops to massive nationwide chains, department stores have played a significant role in shaping that consumerism and the retail landscape in the US and the world. Today, over 1,045,422 brick-and-mortar retail stores dot America’s 50 states, located in practically every community across the nation.
Impactful.news takes a deep, state-by-state look at the department stores that have captured the hearts and wallets of consumers from California to New Jersey and every state in between.
Impactful has gathered data from YouGov and Google to create a comprehensive list of the most popular department stores in each state.
Alabama
- Belk Inc.
- 91% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 37%
- Dollar General
- 88% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 56%
- Walmart
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Dollar Tree
- 84% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- T.J. Maxx
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
Alaska
- Fred Meyer
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- Costco Wholesale
- 74% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Sears
- 55% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Barneys New York
- 54% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 29%
- Burlington
- 51% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
Arizona
- HauteLook
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
- 99 Cents Only Stores
- 72% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- Costco Wholesale
- 66% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Cost Plus World Market
- 60% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
- JCPenney
- 60% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Arkansas
- Sam's Club
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Dillard's
- 97% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Dollar Tree
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Sears
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
California
- 99 Cents Only Stores
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 98% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
- Nordstrom
- 91% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 54%
- Costco Wholesale
- 88% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- HauteLook
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
Colorado
- Cost Plus World Market
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
- Wayfair
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Target
- 57% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Dollar Tree
- 56% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Sam's Club
- 54% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Connecticut
- Lord & Taylor
- 97% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 42%
- Marshalls
- 94% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- T.J. Maxx
- 90% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Wayfair
- 78% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- BJ's Wholesale Club
- 77% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
Delaware
- Boscov's
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 24%
- BJ's Wholesale Club
- 90% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- Dollar Tree
- 83% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Marshalls
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
District of Columbia
- CELINE
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 25%
- Nordstrom
- 95% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 54%
- Barneys New York
- 94% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 29%
- Wayfair
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Bloomingdale's
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 50%
Florida
- Dollar Tree
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 77% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Stein Mart
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- Burlington
- 67% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Neiman Marcus
- 63% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 40%
Georgia
- Wayfair
- 74% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- T.J. Maxx
- 73% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Sam's Club
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Family Dollar
- 66% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- Walmart
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
Hawaii
- Laura Ashley
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 31%
- CELINE
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 25%
- Neiman Marcus
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 40%
- Macy's
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 63%
- Nordstrom
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 54%
Idaho
- Costco Wholesale
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Dollar Tree
- 72% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Cost Plus World Market
- 63% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
- JCPenney
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 57% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
Illinois
- Dollar Tree
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Nordstrom
- 77% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 54%
- Kohl's
- 72% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Neiman Marcus
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 40%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
Indiana
- Dollar Tree
- 88% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Kohl's
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- JCPenney
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Wayfair
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Iowa
- Younkers
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 23%
- Dollar Tree
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Kohl's
- 72% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Sam's Club
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Kansas
- Sam's Club
- 83% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Dollar Tree
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- HauteLook
- 58% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
Kentucky
- Dollar Tree
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Big Lots
- 78% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 63%
- Sam's Club
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 70% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
Louisiana
- Dillard's
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Family Dollar
- 92% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- Sam's Club
- 91% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Stein Mart
- 89% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- JCPenney
- 88% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Maine
- HauteLook
- 96% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
- Wayfair
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- T.J. Maxx
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Walmart
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Laura Ashley
- 60% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 31%
Maryland
- Wayfair
- 90% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 78% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
- Nordstrom
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 54%
- Dollar Tree
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Marshalls
- 67% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
Massachusetts
- Marshalls
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- BJ's Wholesale Club
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- Lord & Taylor
- 70% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 42%
- Burlington
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
Michigan
- Dollar Tree
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 74% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Kohl's
- 73% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Family Dollar
- 72% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- Wayfair
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Minnesota
- Target
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Wayfair
- 67% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Kohl's
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Sam's Club
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- JCPenney
- 59% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Missippi
- Stein Mart
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- Dollar Tree
- 96% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Sam's Club
- 94% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- JCPenney
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Missouri
- Dollar Tree
- 92% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Sam's Club
- 84% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Wayfair
- 59% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Montana
- Cost Plus World Market
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
- Kmart
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- Costco Wholesale
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Wayfair
- 63% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Sears
- 57% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
Nebraska
- HauteLook
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
- JCPenney
- 77% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Sam's Club
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Dollar Tree
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Kohl's
- 64% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Nevada
- 99 Cents Only Stores
- 92% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- Ross
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- HauteLook
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
- Sam's Club
- 63% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Burlington
- 56% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
New Hampshire
- T. J. Maxx
- 84% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Wayfair
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- BJ's Wholesale Club
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- Marshalls
- 67% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Kohl's
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
New Jersey
- Lord & Taylor
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 42%
- Burlington
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Marshalls
- 86% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Neiman Marcus
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 40%
- Bloomingdale's
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 50%
New Mexico
- Sam's Club
- 90% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Dollar Tree
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Cost Plus World Market
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
- JCPenney
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Family Dollar
- 74% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
New York
- Barneys New York
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 29%
- CELINE
- 95% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 25%
- Macy's
- 89% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 63%
- Lord & Taylor
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 42%
- Wayfair
- 77% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
North Carolina
- Belk Inc.
- 80% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 37%
- Dollar Tree
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Sam's Club
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 64% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
North Dakota
- Kmart
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- JCPenney
- 89% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Sam's Club
- 84% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- T.J. Maxx
- 64% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Target
- 58% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
Ohio
- Dollar Tree
- 81% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Kohl's
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- JCPenney
- 73% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Big Lots
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 63%
- Family Dollar
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
Oklahoma
- Dollar Tree
- 96% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Sam's Club
- 87% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Dollar General
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 56%
- Dillard's
- 59% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Oregon
- Fred Meyer
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- Cost Plus World Market
- 83% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
- HauteLook
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
- Costco Wholesale
- 72% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
Pennsylvania
- Boscov's
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 24%
- Wayfair
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Dollar Tree
- 78% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Kohl's
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- T.J. Maxx
- 60% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
Rhode Island
- BJ's Wholesale Club
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 39%
- T.J. Maxx
- 83% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Dollar Tree
- 80% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 78% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Marshalls
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
South Carolina
- Belk Inc.
- 98% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 37%
- Stein Mart
- 85% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- T.J. Maxx
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Wayfair
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Walmart
- 70% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
South Dakota
- Sam's Club
- 74% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- JCPenney
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Dollar Tree
- 64% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 60% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Tennessee
- Dollar Tree
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Walmart
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Sam's Club
- 69% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Stein Mart
- 68% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 33%
- T.J. Maxx
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
Texas
- Neiman Marcus
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 40%
- Dollar Tree
- 75% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- JCPenney
- 73% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Burlington
- 64% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Dillard's
- 63% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Utah
- Costco Wholesale
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- Dollar Tree
- 64% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 57% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 54% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
- Sam's Club
- 53% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Vermont
- Sears
- 84% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Wayfair
- 83% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Burlington
- 65% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Laura Ashley
- 62% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 31%
- JCPenney
- 51% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
Virginia
- Wayfair
- 71% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Dollar Tree
- 67% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- T.J. Maxx
- 56% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Marshalls
- 55% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- John Hardy
- 52% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 21%
Washington
- Nordstrom
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 54%
- Costco Wholesale
- 94% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
- HauteLook
- 93% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 22%
- Nordstrom Rack
- 82% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 43%
- Cost Plus World Market
- 73% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 32%
West Virginia
- Big Lots
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 63%
- Sam's Club
- 96% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Dollar Tree
- 90% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Walmart
- 88% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Family Dollar
- 86% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
Wisconsin
- Kohl's
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- T.J. Maxx
- 79% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 59%
- Dollar Tree
- 77% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 67%
- Wayfair
- 73% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
- Target
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 70%
Wyoming
- Sears
- 100% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 58%
- Family Dollar
- 76% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 53%
- Sam's Club
- 67% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 61%
- Walmart
- 61% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 65%
- Wayfair
- 58% search interest
- YouGov popularity: 46%
Stores that increased by 100% in popularity in 2022
| State | Store |
|---|---|
| Alaska | Fred Meyer |
| Arkansas | Sam's Club |
| California | 99 Cents Only Store |
| Delaware | Boscov's |
| District of Columbia | CELINE |
| Hawaii | Costco Wholesale |
| Iowa | Younkers |
| Kentucky | Dollar Tree |
| Louisiana | Dillard's |
| Massachusetts | Marshalls |
| Minnesota | Target |
| Mississippi | Belk Inc. |
| Montana | Cost Plus World Market |
| Nebraska | HauteLook |
| New Jersey | Lord & Taylor |
| New York | Barneys New York |
| North Dakota | Kmart |
| Rhode Island | BJ's Wholesale Club |
| Washington | Nordstrom |
| West Virginia | Big Lots |
| Wisconsin | Kohl's |
| Wyoming | Sears |
