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JCPenney can offer shoppers something no online retailer can: food and drinks to enjoy while they spend money. CEO Ron Johnson said the retailer was planning on replacing traditional cash registers with coffee and juice bars.
J.C. Penney may have backpedaled on eliminating sales, but it's still trying to redefine retail, and its next big change may feel equally radical: The chain will get rid of all of its cash registers, checkout counters and cashiers by 2014, says CEO Ron Johnson.