is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909.

is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods. The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique—All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous.

is a chain of upmarket department stores operating throughout Great Britain. The chain is owned by the John Lewis Partnership. The first John Lewis store was opened in 1864 in Oxford Street, London. There are currently 39 stores throughout England, Scotland and Wales, including nine new 'At Home' stores. The store in Cardiff is the largest currently operated by the Partnership outside London. On 1 January 2008, the Oxford Street store was awarded a Royal Warrant from Her Majesty the Queen as: "suppliers of household goods". John Lewis Reading is also the holder of a Royal Warrant from the Queen in 2007 as suppliers of household and fancy goods.

is a major British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with 703 stores in the United Kingdom and 361 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products. M&S was founded in 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds.

is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's, the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. Sainsbury's was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury and his wife Mary Ann Sainsbury, in London, England, and grew rapidly during the Victorian era.

is a British supermarket chain which retails food, clothing, general merchandise, toys and financial services. It also has a mobile telephone network, Asda Mobile. Its head office is at Asda House in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Asda is the UK's second largest chain by market share after Tesco.

is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is third- largest in the world. The company was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls. The Tesco name first appeared in 1924.

is a British book shop that operates 296 stores. Established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone, after whom the company was named, the bookseller expanded rapidly. The company has been awarded various industry prizes, including the 'Bookselling Company of the Year' in As well as the Waterstones brand, the company owns the London bookseller Hatchards, and Irish store Hodges Figgis.

is a British shop operating under a department store format in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark, and stores in other countries. The company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to 168 locations in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's, or Woolies or Woolworth) was a retail company that was one of the original pioneers, and arguably the most successful American and international five- and-dime stores, setting trends and creating the modern retail model which stores follow today, worldwide. The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on February 22, 1878.