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

• R - Consumer Goods and Services
• 88 - General Merchandise Retailing
• 882 - Department Stores

8821 - Department Stores_1SIC-C1980

Companies primarily engaged in retailing 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. Merchandise lines are arranged in separate departments with the accounting done on a departmental basis.