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By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily
James Cash Penney is back in Wyoming, at least to some degree.
A statue of the retail magnate behind the department store bearing his name arrived in Kemmerer, its new home, late last week after being delivered from Plano, Texas, about 1,200 miles away.
The trip was apparently delayed by two days due to a winter storm in Utah.
According to the media reports, the statue was donated by the J.C. Penney Co. after it vacated its Plano headquarters last year as part of its bankruptcy reorganization.
The statue is just over 9 feet tall and weighs around 3,500 pounds. It previously sat in the headquarters’ rotunda, a place employees would gather for celebrations and big announcements.
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JC Penney closing another 15 stores, with one in Missouri included in latest announcement
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JC Penney is closing another 15 stores nationwide next spring, including one in southern Missouri. The department store chain’s website shows the West Plains location is shutting down.
The company closed its stores for two months when COVID-19 first came on the scene. It then chose to permanently shutter about 150 stores and file for bankruptcy. The store in the Kansas City suburb of Independence and one in northeast Missouri’s Kirkville were included in the mass closings.
The West Plains store opened around 1989 and has about 20 employees. Liquidation sales are expected to begin soon.
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Missouri JCPenney store to close
JCPenney is closing another 15 stores nationwide next spring, including one in southern Missouri. The department store chain’s website shows the West Plains location is shutting down.
Missouri JCPenney store to close
The company closed its stores for two months when COVID-19 first came on the scene. It then chose to permanently shutter about 150 stores and file for bankruptcy. The store in the Kansas City suburb of Independence and one in northeast Missouri’s Kirkville were included in the mass closings.
The West Plains store opened around 1989 and has about 20 employees. Liquidation sales are expected to begin soon.