I remember a lot of this same talk with Sears. Then it ran to $3.00 and everyone made life changing money. If anything like that would happen, it would take years. make money now :)
Yes old shares would be worthless. The only way old shares are worthless is if they cancel the old shares. It goes on to say the issuance of New JCP stock. If it were just going to be created and not issued to people then it would just be the creation of New JCP stock. The only way to issue new stock and make the old stock worthless is to cancel the old stock and issue the new one. Otherwise they could issue new stock and still continue to let the old JCP stock trade which would mean it's not worthless. It would be worth trading value