Eight J-C Penney stores in Greater Minnesota are on the list of 138 stores the department store chain plans to close this year.
Those stores are in Baxter, Fairmont, Faribault, Hibbing, Hutchinson, Red Wing, Thief River Falls and Winona. This morning J-C Penney said liquidation sales at most of the affected stores will begin on April 17th. The company says about five-thousand positions will be eliminated nationwide as part of the store closings in June.