They’re back: J.C. Penney reinstitutes sales

By Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press

Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 | 12:58 p.m.

NEW YORK — J.C. Penney is bringing back sales. The struggling department store chain this week will begin adding back some of the hundreds of sales it ditched last year in hopes of luring shoppers who were turned off when the discounts disappeared. Penney also plans to add price tags or signs for more than half of its merchandise to show customers how much they're saving by shopping at the mid-priced chain — a strategy used by a few other retailers such as home decor chain Crate and Barrel and the company that owns TJ Maxx, HomeGoods and Marshalls. For ...

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By mrlucky

Jan. 28, 2013

4:05 p.m.

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The real question is, Which store will go out of business first? Kmart/Sears or JcPenny. This idiot at Penny is a fish in the desert. Nice try, but you couldn't save a dying fish. I want to shop at these places, but they don't price things correctly for me to pull the trigger, and they confuse me when i shop---they havn't figured out how to mix the computer and the real store yet---many times i find something on the computer--go to the store where it says it is in stock, and find no one to help me, and then find out they don't even have it to start with and end up buying it online anyway or somewhere else. Sears should be doing way more appliance business but they get too greedy with the prices. Sears never has what the computer system says they do. Penny just can't compete with khols sales---i think they just don't know what to do anymore--they've tried everything and confused everyone now. They could sell alot of jewelery if they carried more stock and more people at the counter--i have walked out of there on several occasions wanting to buy something but couldn't get proper help. On second thought they may both go out of business!