Dearden's

Dearden's sold furniture, appliances, cookware, other home goods, jewelry watches, and perfume.

It also provided services such as check cashing, travel planning, tax preparation and bill paying.

In its last decades, it targeted lower-income Latino clients, especially immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

For some undocumented immigrants in the 1990s, documents from Dearden's established that they were present in the country and helped in the process of receiving amnesty in order to become legal residents of the U.S.[2] The flagship was at 700 S. Main Street (Los Angeles), with five stories and 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2).

At the time it closed, it had 420 employees and branch locations, including many area Latino strongholds, in Anaheim, Chino, Commerce, Huntington Park, La Puente, Santa Ana, and Van Nuys.