Industry Retail Defunct 1996 Products Clothing Founded 1896 Number of locations 54 | Fate Acquired Area served Florida Ceased operations 1996 Successor Uptons | |
Byrons, or J. Byrons or Jackson Byrons, was an American mid-priced department store chain in Miami, Florida.
Byrons was founded in 1896 as a pharmacy called Byrons Red Cross. In 1947, the Byrons flagship store on Flagler Street was renamed Byrons Department Store. In April, 1958, Jackson's Stores bought Byron's, adding it to their existing six store chain and renaming the stores Jackson-Byron's. Pharmacy chain Eckerd Corporation bought J. Byron, which at the time comprised 12 stores, in 1968. They sold the chain in 1985.
Their commercials featured the jingle "The right look, the right price, JByrons" (changed to "at Byrons" after the name changed). Later commercials featured the jingle "At Byrons the magic, the magic is in low prices."
In 1991, the chain dropped the "J" from its name. Five years later, 17 of the Byrons stores were closed, and the remaining 37 were sold to Uptons.