Here's another generous freebie from J.C. Penney.

While you're at J.C. Penney's hair salon getting the kids hair cut for free, you might as well walk over to portrait studio and get a free family portrait made for the holidays.

For the entire month of November,  J.C. Penney's studio is offering free sitting fees, a free 8x10 portrait and a low-resolution digital copy for electronic use.

Be sure to check your email today. If you're on J.C. Penney's mailing list, you most likely received an email for a free $10 to spend.

Not there? Check your spam folder. That's where mine was.

The voucher is good for $10 off a purchase of $10 or more, excluding tax, and is good through Nov. 4 in stores only.

In other words, free money!

J.C. Penney has launched a career sportswear line called She Said, adding to the store's growing list of private and exclusive brands, according to this story by Reuters.

But unlike so many private labels these days that offer lower-priced options to shoppers, this one will be higher priced, hoping to capture shoppers looking for pieces that they consider "something special." Blouses will be priced at about $44 and jackets at $85.

Just in case you thought the fur was real at J.C. Penney, it's not. Well, at least, not anymore.

The president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society said today in a blog posting that J.C. Penney is the first "multiple location, traditional department store" to be fur-free in stores and on its Web site.

Apparently, it's a been a long road with fur and J.C. Penney. In 2006, the company was at the center of an Humane Society investigation, the CEO said. Some of the fur sold at the stores was labeled raccoon but it later turned out the fur was from raccoon dogs, a wild species that's supposed to be skinned alive in China.