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J.C. Penney files for bankruptcy protection
 

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Jacques Penney has been behind the curve for a long time.
They, like Sears, failed to adapt to a changing landscape.
Target, Walmart and a few others, were more nimble.
 

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yes, I can't remember when I last shopped at J C Penney
but sometimes these bankruptcies are to get out of heavy debt ..... maybe the brand will continue
 

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I stopped ordering when they stopped delivering the catalogs. I don’t enjoy going thru a website. My mom would go thru the catalogue at her house and would call me and tell me what she picked out....I would mark up my catalog and then place the order for her. I also loved their St Johns Bay casual clothes. I’ve checked their website and they no longer carry my favorite tank tops. I would find a few styles I liked and then order in every color. They lasted for years. Just as well I can’t get them....I’m getting old lady creap arms. Crape? You know what I mean.
 

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I also missed their catalogs. That is not to say that I don’t buy lots and lots of items online without a catalog.

JCPenney had so many great household items that I don’t think I even knew existed, thumbing through the catalog I would find things that I never saw anywhere else. And if you needed something in a specific color to go with the bedspread you just bought, or you needed an odd size curtain, you could always find it in JCPenney.

Without the catalogs though, I did more shopping at local stores and they lost me as a customer.
 

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Jean-Claude Penney used to sell a decent men's dress shirt.
 

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JCP is my favorite department store. I hope the local one stays open.
 

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I love JCP - always have. Grew up shopping there, bought my first maternity clothes there, etc. It has been sad to watch as it has struggled mightily to stay afloat. As long as it's open, I'll still shop there.
 

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I worked in JCPenney's advertising dept. in the '70s. Ron Johnson ruined it when he became CEO. He made Target hip, but floundered with JCP. Dropping sales & coupons, not testing his ideas in a small region, disregarding favorite house brands, viewing customers with arrogance, all mistakes. Lots of steadfast shoppers never returned.
 

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I stopped ordering when they stopped delivering the catalogs. I don’t enjoy going thru a website. My mom would go thru the catalogue at her house and would call me and tell me what she picked out....I would mark up my catalog and then place the order for her. I also loved their St Johns Bay casual clothes. I’ve checked their website and they no longer carry my favorite tank tops. I would find a few styles I liked and then order in every color. They lasted for years. Just as well I can’t get them....I’m getting old lady creap arms. Crape? You know what I mean.

Crepe. And I do indeed know what you mean. Hit 60 and suddenly I could see crepe if I turned my arm a certain way in a particular glancing incidence of light. By 64 the crepe doesn't need special maneuvers and lighting to be visible. I was sitting with my 85 year old mother last week and thought "her arms will be mine in 20 years". BIG SIGH!
 

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Most of the old department stores are gone in our area. May Co, Broadway, Bullock's, Buffum's. Macy's came to our area when those stores closed, and I've bought pj's and underwear from them, but I never really got acclimated to their women's clothing area. JCP has pretty much always been my starting place for clothing, and most often I find what I'm looking for without shopping anywhere else.
 

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