Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Nordstrom
The 20 closest department store retail alternatives to Nordstrom, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Nordstrom? The closest matches are Macy's, Kohl's and Target. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Nordstrom
Nordstrom nordstrom.com
Wikidata: American chain of luxury department stores
Summary by Claude
Online store of the Nordstrom department store chain selling designer and branded clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, beauty products and home goods, with in-store pickup and returns.
- Who it’s for
- Upscale fashion shoppers in the US and Canada
- Business model
- Retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Nordstrom’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Nordstrom
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Nordstrom, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read nordstrom.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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department store chain in the United States
Very close cos 0.927 - 02
American department store chain
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
Very close cos 0.910 - 04
We Are Currently Unable to Provide a Shopping Experience for this Country
American department store chain
Very close cos 0.905 - 05
Swedish multinational clothing-retail company
Very close cos 0.905 - 06
Women's & Men's Clothing, Shop Online Fashion | SHEIN
From shoes to clothing, from sports equipment to accessories. All fashion inspiration & the latest trends can be found online at SHEIN
Very close cos 0.905 - 07
OTTO - Mode, Möbel & Technik » Zum Online-Shop
OTTO Online-Shop » Viele Marken ✓ Tolle Angebote ✓ Top Service » Ratenkauf ✓ Kauf auf Rechnung ✓ Altgeräte-Mitnahme ✓ Aufbauservice ✓ Jetzt shoppen!
Very close cos 0.902 - 08
Shop Shoes, Fashion & Accessories Online | Zalando
Shop the latest fashion & shoes online | Free delivery* & returns on most of the orders | Over 1,900 Brands – new products every day!
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
Shoes, Sneakers, Boots, & Clothing + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
Very close cos 0.901 - 10
Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
Very close cos 0.899 - 11
Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Very close cos 0.899 - 12
M&S | Marks & Spencer | Fashion, Home, Beauty, Food & Gifts
Shop on-trend womenswear, quality menswear, home and beauty essentials and mouth-watering food and drink. Order online with free delivery or collection at M&S
Very close cos 0.894 - 13
American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company
Very close cos 0.895 - 14
online luxury fashion marketplace
Close cos 0.894 - 15
John Lewis & Partners | Never Knowingly Undersold
Proudly shaping British life for over 150 years, John Lewis blends timeless tradition with modern living across homeware, fashion, and technology. Discover the difference today.
Close cos 0.891 - 16
British online fashion and beauty retailer
Close cos 0.892 - 17 Close cos 0.890
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E-commerce company of fashion & lifestyle products in India
Close cos 0.891 - 19
Australian online fashion retailer
Close cos 0.889 - 20
Poshmark: Buy and sell fashion, home decor, beauty & more
Buy, sell, and discover fashion, home decor, beauty, and more
Close cos 0.889
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to nordstrom.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Nordstrom uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Nordstrom is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=7b3e649906e1416b843e0a74cced9273
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080058-BER, cache-ber1080058-BER, cache-ber108005…
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms64056457
- Proofpoint MX mxb-00411f01.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns3.p02.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=e937d3c7-48c9-462d-9dcd-4df784996863
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=1q0jP4XjqfB9Sevk
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=/ledvMzww1yLXYpugnlAfIFkapTO5o9KOtTIJa6…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=865753d5-8f62-4456-8001-1e69d4265ae3
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=rzgldoPOuZa4XF6HMFpHE0wkg5RWQREZ5yv9tSaHioM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=7e1irfza2ta9k4cdcalaht8uvrr1k1
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Nordstrom adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Apple Business 15/20
- Atlassian 15/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on nordstrom.com 13/20
- Adobe 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Miro · not on nordstrom.com 10/20
- Akamai · not on nordstrom.com 9/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- OpenAI · not on nordstrom.com 7/20
- Proofpoint 6/20
- Next.js · not on nordstrom.com 6/20
- React · not on nordstrom.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on nordstrom.com 6/20