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JC Penney Wants to Become Your Favorite Yoga Studio

in Public Display of Yoga, YD News

JCPenney Yoga StudioJ.C. Penney is going through what appears to be a little bit of a mid-life crisis. They yearn to be hip and edgy. And so they’ve done stuff like hire openly gay comedienne and yogi Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson (to much fanfare and controversy), offer free kids haircuts for the month of August, and now, in their efforts to “transform” the department store “not improve” it, CEO Ron Johnson is reaching for the hippest thing out there these days. Yoga!

The CEO of the Plano-based retailer said that in the center of the store, known as ”The Square,” the company will have seasonal merchandise, as well as activities like yoga or Pilates classes.

Johnson plans to have couches and coffee bars in 15-foot-wide aisles, or what Johnson calls, “places to engage.” It will be just like an Apple store, Johnson said.

Oh goody. Johnson, the former Apple retail chief, will deck out the new space with iPads and other gadgetry. Add gourmet hot dogs and a beer garden and it’ll be like the hipsters never left Brooklyn!

Yoga in a department store. The new retail therapy?

[BizJournals; Forbes]

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