EXHIBIT 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each director and/or officer of Retail Ventures, Inc. (the “Corporation”) whose signature appears below hereby appoints James A. McGrady and Julia A. Davis as the undersigned’s attorney or any of them individually as the undersigned’s attorney, to sign, in the undersigned’s name and behalf and in any and all capacities stated below, and to cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Form 10-K”) for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2011, and likewise to sign and file with the Commission any and all amendments to the Form 10-K, and the Corporation hereby appoints such persons as its attorneys-in-fact and each of them as its attorney-in-fact with like authority to sign and file the Form 10-K and any amendments thereto granting to each attorney-in-fact full power of substitution and revocation, and hereby ratifying all that any such attorney-in-fact or the undersigned’s substitute may do by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands effective as of the 28^th day of March, 2011.


/s/ Jay L. Schottenstein Jay L. Schottenstein		Chairman of the Board of Directors

/s/ James A. McGrady James A. McGrady		Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

/s/ Henry L. Aaron Henry L. Aaron		Director

/s/ Ari Deshe Ari Deshe		Director

/s/ Jon P. Diamond Jon P. Diamond		Director

/s/ Elizabeth M. Eveillard Elizabeth M. Eveillard		Director

/s/ Lawrence J. Ring Lawrence J. Ring		Director

/s/ Harvey L. Sonnenberg Harvey L. Sonnenberg		Director

/s/ James L. Weisman James L. Weisman		Director

RETAIL VENTURES INC 10-K