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JCPenney Announces 40 Store Closures, But Holiday Sales Were Up

JCPenney Announces 40 Store Closures, But Holiday Sales Were Up

JCPenney is looking slightly less doomed than previously anticipated. This week, the department store chain announced its holiday season sales results, which were slightly up over the same period last year. There’s bad news, too, though: about 4% of the company’s stores will close this spring, a total of 40 stores in 19 states, with a total of about 2,250 jobs. [More]