Gayfers

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Gayfers
Type Department store
Founded Unknown
Headquarters Mobile, Alabama
Industry Retail
Products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
Website None

Gayfers was a regional department store chain in the Southern U.S. Most stores were located in the Southeast. The chain was part of the Mercantile Stores chain and became part of Dillard's in 1998.

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[edit] Former Stores

[edit] Alabama

[edit] Florida

A Gayfers store
A Gayfers store

[edit] Georgia

[edit] Mississippi

Mercantile Stores Company Inc.

Retailers: Castner Knott | Root's | McAlpin's | Lion | Bacon's | J. B. White | Maison Blanche | Gayfers | The Jones Store | Joslins | de Lendrecies | Glass Block | Hennessy's

Store Conversions to Dillard's

1998: Castner Knott | Hennessy's | J.B. White | Gayfers | The Lion | Joslins | Maison Blanche | McAlpin's | Bacon's
    1992: Higbee's | Joseph Horne     1990: Ivey's     1989: D.H. Holmes     1988: Miller & Paine
    1987: Joske's | Cain Sloan     1986: Hemphill-Wells     1984: Stix, Baer & Fuller | John A. Brown | Diamond's
1974: Leonard's | Gus Blass | Mayer & Schmidt | Pfeifer's | Wooten's    1972: Fedway      1960: Brown Dunkin
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