Question: Ira A. Watson Co., more commonly known as Watson's was a department store chain based in Knoxville, Tennessee, the company was purchased for $4.45 million by which United States chain of department stores owned by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, Texas?

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G. Fox &amp; Co.: G. Fox & Co. was a large department store that originated in Hartford, Connecticut.  The store was also the largest privately held department store in the nation when it was sold in 1965 to the May Department Stores Company.  In 1992 May Department stores phased out the G. Fox & Co. name converting them into the Boston-based department store Filene's.  In 2005, the May Company was merged with Federated Department Stores which converted the store and all of the other regional chains to Macy's.

Times Square Stores: Times Square Stores (also called TSS and TSS Seedman's) was an American department store chain based in New York City that operated from 1929 to 1989.  By the late 1980s the chain operated 12 stores in New York and 6 in Puerto Rico, and an off-price ladies' apparel chain, "Finders Keepers", which had 15 locations.  The New York department stores ranged in size from 160,000 to 220000 sqft .  During its prime it was considered Long Island's most prominent discount department store chain.

Buttrey Food &amp; Drug: Buttrey Food & Drug was a chain of grocery stores founded in Havre, Montana and formerly headquartered in Great Falls, Montana.  The company was founded in 1896 as a chain of department stores branded Buttrey Department Store.  The company opened grocery stores in 1935 and sold off its department store division following a 1966 acquisition by grocery company The Jewel Companies, Inc. Jewel was sold to American Stores in 1984 and Buttrey was sold off as separate company in 1990.  The company was sold to its main competitor, Boise, Idaho based Albertsons, in January 1998 and the Buttrey name was retired.  At that time, Buttrey was operating 44 stores in Montana, Wyoming, and North Dakota with a revenue of US$391.4 million.  As of today, most former Buttrey stores continue to operate under the Albertsons banner.

Weinstock's: Weinstock's, originally Weinstock, Lubin, and Co., was an American department store chain headquartered in Sacramento, California.  It was founded by Harris Weinstock and his half-brother, David Lubin.  The chain was purchased by Hale's in 1949, becoming part of Broadway-Hale Stores, later Carter Hawley Hale, which was later purchased by Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) in 1995.  Shortly after the purchase, most of the Weinstock's stores were converted to Macy's, while the remaining stores were either closed or sold.

Watson's (United States): Ira A. Watson Co., more commonly known as Watson's was a department store chain based in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.  It was founded in 1907 and grew to many locations throughout the Southeastern United States.  The company was purchased for $4.45 million by Peebles with the transaction closing June 29, 1998.

O'Neil's: The M. O'Neil Co. was a regional department store chain based in Akron, Ohio, United States.  O'Neil's dominated the Akron and Canton retail markets.  Founded in 1877, the store grew to several locations in northeastern Ohio.  Owned by May Department Stores, in 1989 it was merged with May's Cleveland division, May Company Ohio, which was subsequently merged into its Pittsburgh division, Kaufmann's, in 1993.  May Department Stores was purchased by Federated Department Stores in 2005 and all its regional chains merged into Macy's in 2006.

Stockmann, Helsinki centre: The Stockmann department store is a culturally significant business building and department store located in the centre of Helsinki, Finland.  It is one of many department stores owned by the Stockmann corporation.  It is the largest department store in the Nordic countries in terms of area and total sales.  The store is known for carrying all the internationally recognised luxury brands, and Stockmann's enjoys a reputation as the primary high-end department store in Finland.  "Stockmannin Herkku", the food and beverage department located at the basement level, is renowned for the quality and choice of its foodstuffs.  The Stockmann logo represents a set of escalators, which are commonly, but wrongly believed represent the first escalators in Finland.  The first escalators in Finland were installed in the Forum department store, Turku (1926)

Peebles (store): Peebles is a United States chain of department stores owned by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Bealls (Texas): Bealls is a United States chain of department stores, owned by Stage Stores Inc. and headquartered in Houston, TX.

Palais Royal (store): Palais Royal is a United States chain of department stores, owned by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, TX, that specializes in retailing brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares.

Supporting paragraphs: Watson's (United States) Peebles (store)
Answer: Peebles