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Shoppers leave the J.C. Penney department store in North Riverside, Illinois, U.S., November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski

(Reuters) - JC Penney Co Inc (JCP.N) said on Tuesday it would close its Milwaukee distribution and customer care centre and cut about 670 jobs.

"The company's supply chain network is oversized relative to its national store footprint, and can be optimised by transferring operations to facilities in Lenexa, Kansas, and Columbus, Ohio," JC Penney's spokesman Carter English said in a statement.

Retailers such as JC Penney and rival Macy's Inc (M.N) have been shutting stores and cutting jobs as customers increasingly shop online.

The distribution centre will shut operations on July 1 and the customer care centre on Sept. 1, JC Penney said.

(Reporting by Vibhuti Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva)