{"id":171226,"date":"2017-03-22T13:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=171226"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:20:44","slug":"jcpenney-closing-3-north-dakota-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/171226\/jcpenney-closing-3-north-dakota-stores","title":{"rendered":"JCPenney Closing 3 North Dakota Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three North Dakota stores are on the chopping block for a national retailer.<\/p>\n<p>JCPenney stores in Dickinson, Jamestown, and Wahpeton were among 138 stores marked for closure by the national department chain, in a list released last week. Bismarck was not on the list.<\/p>\n<p>After the closures, the chain will operate just under 1,000 stores nationwide, including 5 in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>JCPenney is among\u00a0a slew of national department stores who have been struggling in recent years, particularly Sears Holdings &#8211; owner of Sears and Kmart, who, just today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/03\/21\/sears-flags-going-concern-doubts.html\" target=\"_blank\">warned that<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;substantial doubt exists&#8221; in &#8220;the company&#8217;s ability to continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three North Dakota stores are on the chopping block for a national retailer. JCPenney stores in Dickinson, Jamestown, and Wahpeton were among 138 stores marked for closure by the national department chain, in a list released last week. Bismarck was not on the list. After the closures, the chain will operate just under 1,000 stores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2409,216,364],"tags":[253,2297,2379,614,2234,777,1064,2378],"class_list":["post-171226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-business-news","category-featured","category-home-page","tag-business","tag-dickinson","tag-jamestown","tag-jcpenney","tag-kirkwood-mall","tag-sears","tag-ticker","tag-wahpeton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}