We take JCPenney at their word that any resemblance to the Nazi dictator was completely unintended.
JCPenney had an 88% positive sentiment while Sears had the lowest positive sentiment at 54 percent.
Changing the image of a century-old faded iconic retailer like JCPenney is not easy.
JCPenney (JCP) ousted Ron Johnson as CEO and announced that former CEO Myron Ullman will return.
Conversely, a lack of relevance is the challenge currently facing retailers Sears and JCPenney.
The list included Citigroup, JPMorgan, Hewlett-Packard, JCPenney and First Solar, even Best Buy, Dow Chemical and Google.
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Mr. Ullman is a highly accomplished retail industry executive, who served as CEO of jcpenney until late 2011.
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At BIGinsight, we decided to find out what stimulates JCPenney consumers to purchase: the product or a sale.
Three major corporations, jcpenney, Accenture and Raytheon, sponsored the conference.
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Apple hired Browett to take over when Ron Johnson left to head JCPenney.
Coming up, why JCPenney is on the rise and Wal-Mart is lagging behind after a weekend of intense holiday shopping.
Except there are fewer of those existing customers shopping JCPenney these days, and there lies the big problem for Johnson and Ackman.
As Ackman points out, the new shops within JCPenney are producing roughly twice the sales per sq. ft. as the older departments.
Shoppers who treated JCPenney like a treasure hunt for dramatically marked down merchandise are now running to competitors with stacks of coupons.
But JCPenney needs to be clear about who its shoppers are and which retailers its competing against to keep and win shoppers.
JCPenney might not need to rely so heavily on its former customers.
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The magic of jcpenney will be in that belly to belly interaction.
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The merchandise at jcpenney needs to be more compelling, to be sure.
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Johnson has said that JCPenney has the oldest customer base in retail.
This weekend JCPenney rolled out three more shops, according to a spokeswoman.
And Bon-Ton Stores (NASDAQ: BONT), JCPenney (NYSE: JCP) and Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) are expected to post a net loss.
As a reporter though, I have walked the floor of JCPenney often, in multiple cities, just to see what they were up to.
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Either JCPenney gets it right or it joins Blockbuster and Kodak on the list of companies that zigged when they should have zagged.
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Several stocks like Bed, Bath and Beyond ( BBBY) and JCPenney ( JCP) were hit hard, dropping 9.8% and 11.2% respectively on Thursday.
Which is why you sort of have to applaud the seemingly levelheaded responses by JCPenney, which never equaled the drama of Cooper's outrage culture hysteria.
Another day, another installment in the sad tale of JCPenney.
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He just underestimated the extent to which that business would be lost, the incredibly high percentage of JCPenney shoppers that shopped based on sales and promotions.
So you can buy Lee jeans at jcpenney.com and Calvins at macy.com -- but to buy Levi's from these retailers you must visit their real-world stores.
By far the largest part of our store is the old jcpenney, which continues to struggle and experience significant challenges as evidenced by our third quarter results.
Now, understand that this particular teapot, from JCPenney's exclusive Michael Graves Design collection, quickly went viral after images of the billboard appeared on Reddit and Twitter.
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