Goody's | |
Company type | Department store |
Industry | Clothing |
Founded | 1953 (original), 2009 (revival) |
Founder | M.D. Goodfriend |
Defunct | 2009 (original), 2020 (revival) |
Fate | Bankruptcy |
Headquarters | Houston, Texas |
Area served | Southern United States Midwestern United States |
Products | Apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares |
Parent | Stage Stores (2009-2020) BrandX.com (2022-present) |
Website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
Goody's Family Clothing Inc. was an American chain of department stores, owned and operated by Stage Stores and headquartered in Houston, TX. It specialized in retailing on-trend apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares.
It was a successor to a chain of clothing retailers that was based in Knoxville, Tennessee. At one time Goody's operated close to 500 stores in the U.S South and Midwest, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. In late 2010, Goody's opened 17 new stores in the Southeast.[citation needed]
Brands exclusively found at Goody's include Valerie Stevens; Signature Studio; Sun River; Rustic Blue; Rebecca Malone; and Wishful Park.