J.C. Penney

T-shirt designers sometimes seem embroiled in a race to the bottom of the offensiveness barrel. However, one purveyor gives us hope with its cute new shirt for girls who get As in math. ThinkGeek is offering its "No, I Will Not Do Your Math Babydoll" in women's and girl's sizes.

I spent two decades working for business and consumer media brands, witnessing firsthand their desperate desire to reinvent themselves. So when I listened back in March to Esquire‘s Editor-in-Chief David Granger describe his magazine’s new venture into e-commerce, the idea seemed destined for failure.

J.C. Penney and Esquire magazine have collaborated to launch Cladmen, an online men's clothing and accessories store that will rely heavily on editorial content to bring shoppers to the site. The site includes style advice and fashion picks from Esquire editors.

J.C. Penney certainly doesn't have the dedicated following that Apple does, but it's hoping that new CEO Ron Johnson will be able to bring the innovative strategy he used to develop Apple's retail stores — including concepts like the Genius Bars — to the department chain.

Plano, Texas -- It’s official: Two more Apple Retail veterans are joining their former boss Ron Johnson at J.C. Penney Co. The news came as J.C. Penney reported a third-quarter net loss of $143 million and issued a tepid holiday forecast. J.C. Penney named Michael W. Kramer, CFO of Apple Retail from 2000 to 2005, as COO. Kramer has been the president and CEO of Kellwood Co. since 2008, where he oversaw a portfolio of fashion brands. He also served as executive VP and CFO at Abercrombie & Fitch, from 2005 to 2008. "Mike is an extremely talented executive,

As part of its holiday campaign, JCPenney is giving shoppers a personalized QR code gift tag to attach to gifts purchased in stores in place of traditional hand-written tags. Starting on Black Friday, JCPenney will gift each shopper one free Santa Tag with their purchase. Customers can record voice messages up to one minute long on the "Santa Tags." Gift recipients can then scan the code with any QR code reader application on their smartphones to listen to the message. Other digital holiday initiatives the retailer is rolling out this holiday season include an online and Foursquare promotion with

New York City -- A Thursday report by the Wall Street Journal said that new J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson, who recently left Apple to run the department store chain, is recruiting other former Apple players to join the J.C. Penney team. According to the report, J.C. Penney is nearing a deal with Michael Kramer, former CFO of Apple Retail from 2000 to 2005 and currently CEO of Kellwood Co., to join J.C. Penney as its COO. WSJ cited people familiar with the matter, and said Kramer will start at Penney effective Dec. 1. The report also suggested that

J.C. Penney has innovated the traditional holiday gift tag by making it possible for customers to attach personal voice recorded messages to their purchases using QR codes.

Kohl's is the nation's favorite fashion retail chain, according to an annual consumer survey conducted by Market Force Information, a provider of customer intelligence solutions. This is the third year in a row that Kohl's has earned the top spot.

WASHINGTON – A host of retail groups, retailers and retail property firms have called on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known as the "Super Committee," to give states more leverage to collect sales taxes from Internet retailers and catalog merchants. About 70 national and state retail organizations and more than 60 retailers and retail property companies have signed a letter to the Super Committee that urges lawmakers to eliminate a loophole that prohibits states from requiring remote sellers to collect sales and use taxes owed on purchases from out-of-state vendors. The groups say the loophole gives online