Strouss was a department store serving the U.S. states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The company was founded as Strouss-Hirshberg Co. by Isaac Strouss and Bernard Hirshberg, two young Americans of Jewish descent.

[1] It was long the leading department store in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys.

In 1986, May Company made a corporate decision to consolidate the Strouss division into Kaufmann's.

May promptly shut down many of its former locations in 1987 in part due to the depressed economy of the Youngstown metropolitan area and a strategic decision by May Company to focus on mall-only retail locations within the Kaufmann's division.