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PLANO, Texas(Business Wire)J C Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) comparable store sales decreased 8.1percent for the five-week period ended Jan. 3, 2009, better than the Companysguidance for a low-double digit decrease. During the same period last year,comparable store sales decreased 7.3 percent Total Company sales in Decemberdecreased 6.8 percent.

The December period was extraordinarily promotional across the retail industry.Over the course of the month, the Company took aggressive promotional pricingaction across all channels, which resulted in improved sales during the weekleading up to Christmas and for the remainder of the month. This served topartially offset weaker performance earlier in the period. Comparable storesales results for December also benefited from an increase in sales throughjcp , the Companys Internet channel. For the December period, womens apparel and accessories and family shoes werethe top performing merchandise divisions, while fine jewelry continued toexperience softer sales performance. Geographically, the best performing areasof the country were the southwest and central regions, while the northwestregion had the weakest results.

Preliminary December Sales Summary($ in millions) Total Company Sales Increase/(Decrease) for period endedTotal Sales Comp Stores Jan 3, Jan. 5, 200920082008 20072008 2007 5 Weeks $2,961 $3,177 (6.8)(5.6)(8.1 )(7.3) 9 Weeks $4,776 $5,227 (8.6)(0.8)(9.6 )(2.8) 48 Weeks$17,503$18,697(6.4)1.0(8.0 )0.0January Sales GuidanceManagements guidance for the four-week period ending Jan. 31, 2009, is for alow-double digit decrease in comparable store sales. In last years Januaryperiod, comparable store sales were flat Sales Conference Call Recording (8:30 a.m.