The phrase "a penney" is not correct in written English; the correct spelling is "a penny." You can use it when referring to a small unit of currency, specifically in the context of money.
Example: "I found a penny on the ground and picked it up."
Alternatives: "a cent" or "one cent."
She said she recently walked through a Penney store, and was unimpressed.
"We wouldn't have given up a product that was profitable," a Penney spokeswoman said.
A Penney rival, Macy's, has brought back a charitable program from Christmas 2008.
Attitudes about retailers can turn on a dime -- or a Penney.
Another question is what is to become of the new relationship between Peterson Milla Hooks and a Penney rival, Kmart.
The phrase "black dresses" and a Penney link were tacked to the bottom of a site called nuclear.engineeringaddict.com.
On the other side sit fast, nimble, and vertical H&M, Zara, Uniqlo and Mango (yikes, coming to a J.C. Penney as a shop-in-a-shop any month now).
On the other side of the highway, alongside Co-op City, the main attraction is the Bay Plaza shopping mall, which includes a J. C. Penney, a Barnes & Noble and an AMC movie theater popular with the teenage set.
Walton graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in economics (1940) and entered a J.C. Penney Company management training program in Des Moines, Iowa.
In a statement, Penney said it had appointed Ronald W. Tysoe, a former vice chairman of Federated Department Stores, to its board.
He ignored a study Penney had just completed on customer preferences, and gave merchants a one-sheet grid explaining what prices they could use.
