Hale Brothers Department Store (Hale Bros., Hales's, or Hale Brothers and Company), was a department store headquartered in Sacramento, California, with branches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

One of the former store locations at 979–989 Market Street in the Market Street Theatre and Loft District (Mid-Market) of San Francisco is listed as a U.S. National Register of Historic Place.

Marshal Hale Sr. (b. Vermont, 1809) had been a merchant first in New York State, growing his business to a five store chain, and later in Michigan. In November 1873, Hale Sr. came to San Jose, California, with his wife and six of his nine children and in 1876 founded a 3,600-square-foot store there together with his sons Oliver Ambrose Hale and Evert W. Hale as well as with J. Frank Devendort, each of the men with a 25% stake. Hale persuaded another son, James M. Hale, to come to California and in 1878 they opened a store in Salinas.

By 1879 brother Prentis Cobb Hale was president of Hale Bros.' Stores, Inc., and he joined with his father as partner in 1879.

In 1880 Prentis and two of his brothers opened the Criterion store in Downtown Sacramento, brother Evert taking charge of the store, and in 1881 they named it Hale Brothers & Company. The company opened large branches in San Francisco (1892) and San Jose (1896), Salinas, Stockton and Petaluma, and via an acquisition of Whitthorne & Swann in 1906, Oakland.

Brother Marshal Hale became a partner in 1886 and R. B. did so in 1889.

1925 sales across five stores (Downtown San Francisco, Mission District, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento) totales $17,214,124. At that time Hale's owned and operated a radio station, KPO, "the Voice of San Francisco", and was one of the first U.S. department stores to do so.

In 1949, Hale's bought their Sacramento rival, Weinstock, Lubin & Co. In the same year, Hale's merged with Los Angeles–based Broadway Department Stores, becoming Broadway-Hale Stores, Carter Hawley Hale Stores, and later Broadway-Hale Stores.