Mercantile Stores Company, Inc.

Store names included Bacon's, Castner Knott, Gayfers, Glass Block, Hennessy's, J.

Each store offered a wide selection of merchandise with special emphasis placed on fashion apparel, accessories and fashion home furnishings.

This was aimed at middle and upper-middle income consumers.

Later that year, Dillard's announced plans to sell off 26 of the newly acquired locations where there already were Dillard's stores to The May Department Stores Company and Proffitt's Inc.[1]

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