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Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus was founded in Dallas in 1907 by Herbert Marcus, his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman, and her husband Al Neiman, built from the outset as a purveyor of high-end luxury fashion at a time when most Texas retailers focused on more practical, mass-market goods. The store's annual Christmas Book catalog became famous for its outlandish, ultra-high-priced "fantasy gifts," including items like his-and-hers submarines and private jets, generating significant national media attention each holiday season disproportionate to the catalog's actual sales. Neiman Marcus became closely associated with Texas's specific brand of high-end luxury retail culture, and its stores' emphasis on personal styling services and an elevated, exclusive shopping experience distinguished it from more broadly accessible department store competitors. Neiman Marcus's combination of its luxury-first positioning since its 1907 founding and its famously outlandish annual Christmas Book has made it one of the most distinctive high-end department store chains in the country.
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Kohl's
Kohl's began as a Milwaukee grocery store chain founded by Polish immigrant Maxwell Kohl in 1927, before the company transitioned into department store retail in the 1960s and eventually sold off its original grocery operations entirely to focus on apparel and home goods. The chain built its business model around suburban strip-mall locations rather than traditional indoor shopping malls, a strategic choice that gave it more convenient, easily accessible parking and store access than mall-anchor competitors during a period when many other department stores were mall-dependent. Kohl's became known for its extensive loyalty rewards program and frequent significant discount promotions, along with more recent partnerships allowing in-store Amazon returns, reflecting an effort to drive consistent store foot traffic in an increasingly online-shopping-dominated retail environment. Kohl's combination of its suburban strip-mall retail strategy and its aggressive loyalty and discount promotional model has made it one of the most resilient traditional department store chains in modern American retail.
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