Archived - Standard Industrial Classification - Companies and Enterprises (SIC-C) 1980

• R - Consumer Goods and Services
• 88 - General Merchandise Retailing

882 - Department Stores

Establishments primarily engaged in retail dealing in a general line of merchandise which must include wearing apparel, furniture, appliances and home furnishings but which may also include, paint, hardware, toiletries, cosmetics, photographic equipment, jewellery, toys, sporting goods and so on with no one commodity line representing more than 50% of total revenue. Merchandise lines are normally arranged in separate departments with the accounting on a departmental basis. The departments and functions are integrated under a single management. Such stores usually provide their own charge accounts, deliver merchandise and maintain open stocks.