Tag: department stores

  • Department Stores: Everything in One Place

    On this date in 1902, James Cash Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Here are some things you may not have known about J.C. Penney and department stores in general. James Cash Penney Jr. was born in 1875 in Missouri. In 1898 he started working for a chain called the Golden Rule stores.…