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James Cash Penney And His North Dakota Stores, David Kruger
James Cash Penney And His North Dakota Stores, David Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
Although James Cash Penney opened his first store in 1902, at the age of twenty-six, he kept his business entirely in the western United States for the first twelve years of its existence. By 1914 he was operating about forty stores out of his Utah headquarters, but had no locations east of Montana, Wyoming, or Colorado. Not a single J. C. Penney store existed in the Midwest, and, unlike Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck, his chain had no catalog business to cover the agrarian region by mail order.1 However, Penney was well aware of North Dakota’s booming rural population, and …
James Cash Penney: The Impact Of A Main Street Merchant On Oklahoma, David Kruger
James Cash Penney: The Impact Of A Main Street Merchant On Oklahoma, David Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
Although not from the Sooner State, J. C. Penney made his mark on Oklahoma and its people through his retail empire based on his golden rule principles. By visiting his store locations in the state, Penney influenced a new generation of company leadership to grow from the small towns in Oklahoma. David D. Kruger explains the impact of Penney the man and J.C. Penney the company on the culture of retail shopping in Oklahoma.
This Was J. C. Penney: A Century Of Main Street Department Stores, David Kruger
This Was J. C. Penney: A Century Of Main Street Department Stores, David Kruger
David Delbert Kruger
Talk given as invited plenary speaker, providing an overview of the boom and bust of Main Street department stores throughout Montana, with particular emphasis on James Cash Penney and his Golden Rule/JCPenney department store locations.