The Joy's Inside!: JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog Fun Facts.Business Editors PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2003 It's no secret that America's favorite Christmas Catalog has hit the streets. This year's JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog features more than 500 pages of innovative gifts, festive home decor furnishings, fun toys and outstanding value, but did you know: -- Stack all 10 million plus JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalogs and they equal the height of 689 Seattle Space Needles. -- The number of light bulbs used on Christmas trees available in the JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog and on jcpenney.com could light 42 Rockefeller Center Rockefeller Center, complex of buildings in central Manhattan, New York City, between 48th and 51st streets and Fifth Ave. and the Ave. of the Americas (Sixth Ave.). The project was sponsored by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Christmas Trees. -- The JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog and jcpenney.com have enough toy train toy train n → tren m de juguete tracks to run from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and back 8 times. -- The number of toys available in the JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog and on jcpenney.com allow every child in the state of Texas to receive 28 gifts every day for one year. -- All of the batteries needed for the electronics and gadgets sold in the JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog and jcpenney.com could light the entire city of Los Angeles
-- There is enough wrapping paper Noun 1. wrapping paper - a tough paper used for wrapping kraft, kraft paper - strong wrapping paper made from pulp processed with a sulfur solution butcher paper - a strong wrapping paper that resists penetration by blood or meat fluids in the JCPenney Catalog Service Department to wrap every present for every person in the state of California for the next 6 years.
-- Each JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog weighs 1.12 lbs. The
combined circulation of the catalogs weighs in at a grand
total of 8,795 tons, the equivalent of:
252 Humpback Whales
39 Statues of Liberty
22 jumbo 747 airplanes
-- If one were to take the pages of all the catalogs and place
them end to end it would:
Stretch around the earth 40 times
Reach the moon and back twice
Run the length of 267 Great Walls of China
-- The combined cost of mailing more than 10 million Christmas
2003 Catalogs would also buy:
40,000,000 bottles of water
3,950,000 movie tickets
79,000,000 candy canes
-- A single JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog measures
approximately 8" x 11" x .5". Placed end-to-end, the Catalogs
measure 8,976,000 feet or:
Long enough to span 88 trips across the Brooklyn Bridge,
Golden Gate Bridge and Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
155 trips up and down Mount Everest
The length of 29 Roman Aqueducts
Customers who order gifts from the JCPenney Christmas 2003 Catalog and jcpenney.com by December 19 will receive their gifts by Christmas Eve via standard delivery. With the express delivery option, customers can pay more to order as late as noon CST CST abbr. 1. Central Standard Time 2. convulsive shock treatment CST Central Standard Time Noun 1. on December 23rd and still receive their order by Christmas Eve -- that's faster turn-around than Santa! About JCPenney Catalog and jcpenney.com Since 1963, JCPenney has published America's favorite Christmas catalog. In 1995, the Company launched the jcpenney.com website to offer an even broader selection of merchandise, year-round. This year, we traveled the world in search of the most sought after gifts. Whether shopping for family or friends, associates or acquaintances, the JCPenney holiday catalogs and website (www.jcpenney.com) represent the ultimate in gift solutions, at value only JCPenney can offer, complemented by unparalleled customer service. About JCPenney J. C. Penney This article is about the department store chain. For its founder, see James Cash Penney. For the Irish retail chain branded Penney's, see Primark. J. C. Penney Company, Inc [1](NYSE: JCP; most commonly known today by the name JCPenney or simply Corporation, Inc., the wholly-owned operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. of the Company, is one of America's largest department store, drugstore, catalog, and e-commerce retailers, employing approximately 230,000 associates. As of July 26, 2003, it operated 1,040 JCPenney department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico, and 56 Renner department stores in Brazil. Eckerd Corporation operated 2,710 drugstores throughout the Southeast, Sunbelt, and Northeast regions of the U.S. JCPenney Catalog, including e-commerce, is the nation's largest catalog merchant of general merchandise. J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc. is a contributor to the JCPenney Afterschool af·ter·school adj. often after-school 1. Taking place immediately following school classes: afterschool activities. 2. Fund, a charitable organization committed to providing children with high quality after school programs to help them reach their full potential. |
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