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Spot the CEO: Marvin Ellison is second from left, posing with store employees.

JCPenney Wants To Bring Current Customers Back More Often, Maybe Also Find New Ones

Marvin Ellison, the CEO of JCPenney, understands something important about the retailer that his predecessor Ron Johnson didn’t: they’re never going to attract affluent customers, and that’s okay. “We can convince ourselves that our core customers are a more affluent demographic, but really, they’re not,” he told Fortune magazine in a profile this week. [More]