JCPenney

I used to love this place, and actually recommended it to our city’s visitors before. In the past, each penneys was unique to the city it was located in, especially ours. The chain actually sent the winter clothes up here for our store to sell in the summer, since visitors got colder than they thought they would. You could actually find great stuff here.
Now it’s a cookie cutter store, just like the other penney’s in the lower 48.
Most of the staff was rude before the change, hey but now as an added bonus, most of them are too dumb to know what their new store is selling. Don’t bother looking for hoodies here, go to the tourist traps, or head to a Fred Meyers. That is your best bet.

Angie is right, JC Penny’s can be chaotic. But given the kinds of sales Penny’s has, I can forgive them. Yesterday, I left the store with 7 or 8 new, gorgeous tops and 2 skirts for only 43 bucks. Great selection + low prices = a bit of disorganization. During sales, women desecend on Penny’s like a hoard vultures during a feeding frenzy.
Leggo that dress lady, cause I will cold-​cock you. I saw it first.
I heart you Penny’s.

Clean store, 3 floors, with a home décor section across the street. I don’t shop here all the time but when I do I usually find something. The parking lot sucks and once the gate was broken that we had to back down to the street which was scary. A-​ok.

The Home Store selection is pretty epic. In general, JCPenney’s only sells one or two brands of something, but it’s high quality and usually lower than msrp price. The selection of curtains, small kitchen appliances, Oneida flatware is very good. I wouldn’t come here (normally) for jewelry or clothing, but you can find some cute things for very reasonable prices.
Also, if you want brand name perfumes, makeup, and beauty products, go to the Sephora store inside JCPenney.

Been going to Penney’s for years. Nice to see they have finally remodeled and updated. I don’t care for the new layout, but it is nice to have the home store in the same building with everything else. I never went to the old home store when it was in the bottom of the parking garage because it was kinda scary.
New layout has a giant Sephora store in the center of the main women’s floor, and they’ve now spread the women’s clothes out over the first 2 floors. I guess that helps get people to move more through the store, but personally I preferred the old layout where I could just run in and get pretty much everything I need on 1 floor. Mens is on the ground floor now and looks kind of warehouse-​ish. The old mens dept was dated, but warmer and more welcoming. I’d say the same for most of the women’s clothes as well. The racks are pretty crammed in, and its very messy. Sales associates are no where to be found and as I walked through all 3 floors I heard bells being rung at the checkout counters while people waited and waited for someone to cash them out.
Obviously I’ll go back. They have a nice selection of business clothes, and always seem to have dresses when I can’t find them anywhere else.

I am really surprised at the low ratings this Penney’s has. I think it is a really great store. I have been coming in there for years. Almost every time I go to Anchorage i stop at Penney’s. They always have wonderful sales and you can always get a coupon. Usually for $ 10.00 off. With no sales tax on top of it, it is a win win situation. They just finished their remodel and moved the housewares all in to the main building. I love this store i can’t wait to go back.

This store seems to carry the left overs from stores in the lower 48, similar to almost every other larger store in Anchorage. I really have a hard time even finding the basics in mens clothes. The do have a decent section dedicated to bedroom needs. If your in need for clothes to mess up, such as got work, cheek them out. The usually have up to 80% off sales for crap you usually wouldn’t wear out. This is the least «appetizing» Penney’s I think I have been to.

This review is only for the JCPenney Home Store at this location. Yesterday, when shopping for some glassware for my place, I stopped in to see what this JCPenney Home Store location had to offer. With a pretty good idea of what I wanted to buy — some chunky, substantial glasses that won’t break very easily — I found a potentially suitable selection here at this store.
Upon closer inspection, however, I was astonished at just how poorly manufactured these glasses appeared to be and I was shocked that JCPenney would even offer such glasses for sale to the public without identifying them as the seconds that they are. With air bubbles in the glass, with a few inclusions of unidentifiable objects in the glass, and with obvious striations and other undesirable curing problems in the glass, virtually all of these glasses were of very inferior quality. And, no, these imperfections were not intentional; the manufacturer had not produced a product intended to be rustic in appearance or something like that.
Despite the obvious poor quality of these glasses, I tried to see if I could find a first-​quality box mixed in amongst the rubble. After looking through the lot, I found no such box. I did, however, find two full boxes worth of glasses — eight glasses in total — that were broken or chipped (most of them badly so), with chunks of glass missing out of their bases or their rims. I am shocked that JCPenney would risk its good reputation as a retailer offering decent goods for the middle class by putting obvious junk like these glasses out on the sales floor.