What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street Store that fused its founder\'s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy.
David Delbert Kruger explores how the company, its stores, and t.
This book--at once a biography of Missouri farm boy-turned-business icon James Cash Penney and the story of the company he started in 1902--brings to light the little-known agrarian roots of an American department Store chain.
What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street Store that fused its founder\'s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy