Posted on 07/19/2012 3:25:37 PM PDT by NYer
Simply put, people are not shopping at J.C. Penney. AFA and OneMillionMoms are showing success in the effort to educate people to Penney's aggressive national campaign to promote "gay" marriage.
The company is going downhill fast. Since February, the company stock has lost more than half its value, and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its credit rating on J.C. Penney Co. further into "junk" status.
Snapshot of J.C. Penney under same-sex marriage crusade
| February 2012 | May 2012 | June 2012 | July 2012 |
| JCP announces Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson. | JCP launches catalog ad featuring two "gay" moms. | JCP launches catalog ad featuring two "gay" dads. | JCP stock rated "junk" by S&P. JCP fires marketing exec. |
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Stock price: |
Stock price falls to $35.67 | Stock price falls to $25.83 | Stock price falls to $20.02 |
First-year CEO Ron Johnson's decisions have led to disastrous results for the company. Rather than build on the faith-based traditions of founder James Cash Penney, Johnson has abandoned family values and taken the company into a financial tailspin by embracing social activism.
Families are the backbone of Penney's existence. As long as it pushes homosexual marriage, families will go elsewhere.
TAKE ACTION
Make a personal phone call to J.C. Penney's customer service department. Urge them to return to family values and stop pushing the gay marriage agenda.
Their numbers are 972-431-8200 (customer service) and 972-431-1000 (corporate headquarters).
Because JCP blocks emails from our server, you can also write a personal email to J.C. Penney at this email address: jcpcorpcomm@jcpenney.com.
In addition to skipping JCPenney and Target, two former large providers for me, I have totally eliminated Starbucks for over a year (it’s Peets, or the gas station coffee!) for me.
I have never been a heavy boycotter but I have come through for all three of these, as I used to utilize them heavily and now I do NOT.
As for General Mills, we buy almost all bagged cereal anyway, so I didn’t impact them much.
JC Penny is sooooooo screwed.
No. Nor in a thousand years would I vote for Nobama, unlike many here. ABO! ABO! ABO! Loud and Proud.
Well, that’s another one, I have not bought Ben & Jerry’s for a decade, at least. Wow, I boycott more than I realize!
James Cash Penny would not be pleased with his company today. From a bio at Christianity.com;
Penney’s first stores did not bear his name but were called The Golden Rule stores. He bought his first in the small mining community of Kemmerer, Wyoming, in 1902. There he competed for customers with 21 saloons.
In the midst of the Great Depression, one of America’s leading businessmen sank into a personal depression of his own. Now in his fifties, James Cash Penney had already built an empire of dry goods stores, dedicated to following the Golden Rule as a basic commercial principle. But when the economy caved in during the 1930s, Penney lost nearly everything—including his health.
I have found that unselfishness pays because it tends to engender unselfishness. —J. C. Penney
His parents had instilled in him a basic Christian faith that had given him the principles on which he had based his life and his business, yet now that faith was being tested. “I was at the end of my rope,” he said later. “My business had crumbled, my communications with colleagues had faltered, and even my . . . wife and our children were estranged from me. It was all my fault.” He was even contemplating suicide.
An old friend convinced him to enter a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. The rest and medical attention did him good, but there was another event that restored him spiritually. One morning he awoke too early for breakfast and was wandering the corridors when he heard a hymn he remembered from childhood.
Be not dismayed whate’er betide,
God will take care of you
All you need he will provide
God will take care of you
Following the sound, he stumbled upon a chapel filled with worshiping doctors and nurses. Someone read a Scripture passage: “Come unto me all you that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” It was a moment of clarity for the hard-working entrepreneur. He had been striving all his life to honor God with his business, but now it was time to rest in the Lord’s grace. “At that time something happened to me which I cannot explain,” he said later. “It was a life-changing miracle, and I’ve been a different person ever since. I saw God in his glory and planned to be baptized and to join a church.”
Over the next twelve hours, he experienced a kind of conversion. “Suddenly needing to be heard, I cried inwardly, ‘Lord, will you take care of me? I can do nothing for myself!’ . . . I felt I was passing out of darkness into light.” The words “only believe” came to him. It was no longer about his own efforts, but God’s. “In the midst of failure to believe, I was being helped back to believing.”
I agree. It wasn’t the gay stuff, in fact, I think the only people paying attention to it were the people making a big stink over it. What kill JCP was the ‘no more sales’ and ‘everyday low prices’. People like to clip coupons and wait for sales, even if they are artificially created to create business. It makes people feel like they have control.
Also, it was too much change too fast. JCP should of gradually shifted into ‘no more sales’ if they wanted it to even have a chance of being successful. Maybe kept have the store ‘sales’ and the otehr half ‘regular’ to see how people react.
Are you joking? Its right there in the article.
The store has made it's feelings known about people like me - - the 'traditional' types... They don't want us. If we shop there they'd be calling us gay-marriage-a-phobes or some other name. Who needs it?
I used to eat Chex serials until they were bought out by General Mills or General Foods, one of them. Both pro-abort so I now buy other cereals.
The biggest problem for JCPenney is the economy. The economy is horrible. Food prices are rising as I type, and the majority of people who would shop at JCPenney have little to no disposable income.
I used to shop at JCPenney several times a year because the store is closer than any alternatives. The gay ads have affected my shopping habits there. But I can only speak for me-self.
That is exactly what liberal hollywierd people do! You couldn't pay me enough money to listen to Barbara Streisand or watch a movie with the likes of Susan Sarandon.
Just because a group of people have a loud voice, doesn't make it a majority. Many don't realize where their paychecks actually come from.
In Glendale, CA? Where?
Retailers for the most part are doing OK, sans J.C. Penney which the current CEO led off a cliff.
Wish it was the Gay agenda, but it’s not. No coupons, no sale. Coupons vs.no coupons? The price could be the same, it doesn’t matter....dolts need coupons.
Well......it's not at all half. And no, you do not lose 6 non-gays for every gay. Try to be realistic. You may lose a few shoppers (being generous). Mostly all of us could give a crap, and some of us even have gay family members whom we love.
Methinks JP Penny, once started and owned and run by a very capable Christian who loved Jesus Christ and respected his fellow man has been replaced by gay activists who mock God and family. Their ruin is self inflicted stupidity and arrogancy.
Email sent.
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