JCPenney, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 19Tom Campion 6Mitchell Gold 6Bob Moore 2Norma Kamali 1Alex and Mike Faherty 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where JCPenney comes up
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
- ▶ 49:06 Alex and Mike Faherty Like old pennies catalogs from the forties and Sears catalogs, like, so I think just the idea of we were just selling product that needed to be shown in a way that was interesting.
Zumiez: Tom Campion
- ▶ 2:37 Guy Raz Before that, Tom and Gary both worked at JCPenney in Seattle, and that was where Tom learned about the nuts and bolts of retail, and as I mentioned, how to keep a business profitable by making sure you manage the inventory carefully.
- ▶ 4:12 Tom Campion And doing this, and I really enjoyed this, and I'm working about 25 hours a week, 30 hours a week, some weeks, I'm paying my own tuition, and I graduated in June, and I can't remember exactly how this happened, but I applied at JCPenney. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 Guy Raz All right, so you are at Pennies, and there's a guy there named Gary Hawkinson, or Hackinson, who's also working there. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:41 Guy Raz Where the pennies was, and I guess, I mean, in the seventies, eighties, nineties, that was where to be in the mall, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:30 unnamed speaker JC Penney's where you started your career, right?
- ▶ 53:25 Guy Raz Tom, when you think about, um, you know, all that, that, that you've accomplished and achieved in your 74 years now, you know, starting at pennies and above the belt and into a company, you know, a company with more than 700 stores and…
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
- ▶ 0:34 Guy Raz You would basically get the raw materials and wait for your payment to come from pennies and levitts and then pay your suppliers.
- ▶ 17:20 Mitchell Gold One was National Accounts, which was JCPenney, Levitt's, Montgomery Ward, Sears, you know, huge accounts.
- ▶ 26:25 Mitchell Gold So the first people I went to see were J.C.
- ▶ 26:50 Mitchell Gold Now, mind you, I had gone into Penny's and said to them, you know, you have 260 stores. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:11 Guy Raz Because I can't imagine that JCPenney and Levitz just handed you an advance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:29 Guy Raz So, Mitchell, when you made that sale to Levitt's and to Penny's, um, I mean, that's obviously super impressive, and, and, and it makes sense that they trusted you, they knew you, but like,
- ▶ 44:36 Guy Raz The idea was you would be a furniture maker, and you would sell your furniture through these, uh, retail channels, whether it was Levitt's, or Jay Penny's, or, or maybe Bloomingdale's.
Norma Kamali: Norma Kamali
- ▶ 1:14:16 Norma Kamali So first of all, when Halston made a decision to do a big box, I think it was Penny's, it killed his career.
- ▶ 1:23:21 Guy Raz I mean, the, the, the, in, in, in 2020 alone, J.Crew, Neiman Marcus, um, JCPenney, Brooks Brothers filed for bankruptcy.