Galeries Lafayette is the 7th most popular department store worldwide

What: The British real estate company Stokemont.com compiled a core list of 47 of the best-known department stores and recorded the number of Instagram hashtags, TikTok views, and average global search data to put together a ranking list of the most popular department stores worldwide. 

Why it is important: Overall, the study shows that European department stores are known and popular worldwide. El Corté Inglés is 9th and Breuninger is 21st in the ranking list.

Macy's in New York is the most popular department store in the world with a final score of 9.65, with 118.3 million TikTok views (#1 in the category) and 14.2 million average monthly searches worldwide (#1 in the category) and 1.23 million (#3 in the category) for Instagram hashtags. Macy's is closely followed by Nordstrom in Seattle with a final score of 9.58 and Selfridges in London (8.96). Places 4 to 10 were occupied by Harrods in London (8.89), Bloomingdale's in New York (8.68), Saks Fifth Avenue in New York (8.61), Galeries Lafayette in Paris (8.47), David Jones in Melbourne (8.33), El Corte Ingles in Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon (8.26) and Beymen in Istanbul (7.64).