Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover major developments in the retail industry. JC Penney celebrates its one-year anniversary of Hope and Wonder, its private ...

The JC Penney department store in Lakeside Shopping Center is no longer marked for permanent closure after its Plano, Texas-based parent company finalized a deal last week to avoid bankruptcy. A JC ...

A Triangle JC Penney store was among 119 locations included in a recent sale. The store at The Streets at Southpoint was the only North Carolina location sold to an affiliate of Onyx Partners based in ...

JCPenney is set to close another location, this time in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. The clothing store is set ...

This year marks the 150th birthday of James Cash “J. C.” Penney, a Missouri farm boy who became a shopkeeper in Wyoming and built one of America’s most enduring department store chains. UW Libraries ...

The troubled clothing retailer brings to an end a tough year, marked by a number of store and warehouse closures across the United States.

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It’s been a long difficult road for JCPenney JCP. For the past few decades, the department store has struggled to find its audience and its identity. But last week’s news that the bankrupt retailer is ...