I live in a college town. We have Walmart, Target, Sams club, Barnes and Noble, Circuit City, OfficeMax, Office-depot, Bestbuy, TJMaxx, Ross Dress for Less, pier one (we do not have an IKEA.)
In terms of department stores, we only have one mall with a JCPennys, a Macys, Sears, and Bon-Ton. (No Saks, Norstroms, Neimans or anything really cool like that)
We have a zillion smaller retail stores -- gap, abercrombie, Express, Victorias Secret, Hollister (just got that one!), Eddie Bauer, AE, etc. (But we do NOT have a Banana Republic, a Limitted, or a J Crew)
Shopping is rather lame here. We do have a few good locally owned clothing shops w/ a variety of good designer labels available.