According to the article JC Penny, “the company is seeking to calm investors who are growing pessimistic about a turnaround.” I guess they have not been too high on the stock market. However the article also states the store, “got a boost Tuesday after the struggling department store chain said that a key sales barometer wasn't as bad last month as it was in August. The article depicts JC Penny is expecting to make over 2 billion dollars by the end of the year as they continue to strengthen.
According to David Twill, which follows distressed companies. "Stemming the tide isn't enough." “He noted that Penney is desperately marking down goods and it needs to show big gains in sales in the next year or it will run out of cash.” This is something that I’ve noticed a lot of stores do and we as consumers see it as just a great sale but many do not wonder why. Companies outrageously mark everything down and then when they get back to their comfort zone of sales they go back to their expensive ways. JC penny needs to find out how they can appeal to their customers wants and needs to keep their sales up. David Twill is basically saying that once those goods marked down are marked up once again they will not meet their goal for the year if they do not get to the root of why they are not booming in the first place.
However JC penny is bringing in brands they didn’t have before to keep up with sales such as Betsey Johnson and the article depicts that “reconnecting with customers and getting them into stores is a top priority for the chain.” JC Penny’s CEO Mike Ullman states, "We are all