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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 16 department stores
Best department stores in Kolkata
The 10 most notable department stores in Kolkata, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Shoppers Stop Ltd - Siliguri
Ground Floor, City Centre, NH 31, near Ambuja Realty Development Ltd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.723, percentile 100 of 16
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2
Big Bazaar
185, Madhusudan Banerjee Rd
480 m from Birati railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.287, percentile 93.33 of 16
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3
Reliance Trends
Mla House, 2nd Mile
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.208, percentile 86.67 of 16
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4
Lifestyle Stores
Axis mall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.111, percentile 80 of 16
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5
Durga Departmental Store
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.944, percentile 73.33 of 16
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6
Lifestyle Stores
City Centre
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.892, percentile 66.67 of 16
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7
Vishal Mega Mart
Vip Road, Baguihati, Adjacent To Big Bazaar
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.851, percentile 60 of 16
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Spencer's
Ste 301, 145, Rash Behari Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.741, percentile 53.33 of 16
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9
Shoppers Stop
No 10/3, Lala Lajpatrai Road
520 m from Rabindra Sadan metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.688, percentile 46.67 of 16
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10
Shoppers Stop
1858 Ground Floor, And 2nd Floor, Acropolis Mall, Rajdanga Main Road, Sector 1, East Kolkata Township
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.675, percentile 40 of 16
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).