In 1968 I was in 8th grade. One teacher (can't recall the subject anymore) spit out the factoid (as well as some other info about James Cash Penny) that you had a 25% chance of working for Penny's (as it was known then) at some point in your life. By 1974 I was working there, my wife to be had already done a stint there and a friend from school I hadn't seen in 8 years was there. My nephew and his wife both work / worked for the one in Las Cruces. We've tried to get her to leave to do something else because we know it's a dead end, but there's not too many jobs in Las Cruces. In the early / mid 1990's JCP moved their corporate headquarters to Plano, Texas. I spent several months working on a bid for the steel for the project, massive building. We did not get the project.