They used to have some really good coupons and sales at Penney's but no more. That is why I haven't shopped there in a long time. Give me COUPONS and sales and I'll be back. But NOT until then.
Johnson things he is going to make JC Penny a store full of boutiques.
I think he is pissing in the wind.
Foolish man tried importing Apple concepts to a store with lots of competition. I hear (WSJ) he’s backing off, there’ll be discounts, and claiming that his strategy hasn’t changed!
“JCPenney made a big splash in the retail world by hiring Ron Johnson, mastermind of Apple’s retail operations, as CEO.”
He was pushed out of Apple for a reason.
Yes, pushed. Hard & abrupt.
I go to our local Penney’s about every six month, usually for jackets or slacks. Last time I went, the inventory was half of what it was before, much more limited selection. And it did look like a boutique. Probably won’t go back.
I try to avoid companies that promote or support faux marriage (a.k.a., “gay marriage”)
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I didn’t see any mention of the boycott taking place because JCP’s new pro-homosexual image with Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson. Could be that is also what is causing their sharp drop in sales? That’s the reason why I never go there.
Hey, last year, about this time, I bought 15 2X tall flannel shirts at JCP. For two bucks each. Kept ten for myself and gave five to my cousin.
One trick pony syndrome. This pony won’t hunt!
Penny’s certainly has a lot of problems, but it is not limited to them. Almost all of retail is tanking this quarter.
Seems everything there is from China, and forget paying 50 and above for a blouse!
It’s hardly ‘pennies’ Penney’s.
I wouldn’t go back for free stuff, let them go bankrupt
Otherwise, I don't shop at Penneys anymore. The merchandise stinks, no sales/coupons and you have to run all over the store to find a cashier. Oh, and like Sears, Penneys has gone bilingual. Sorry, but that bilingual nonsense bugs me. This country's official language is English. If the immigrants want to live here, they should learn the language.
johnson’s most likely driven penneys into bankruptcy. the whole homo thing backfired and the store-within-a-store thing has not worked because way to few penneys stores have been remodeled to actually be able to offer store-within-a-store experience like their ads lead customers to expect when they walk into a penneys.
I think JCP’s recent homosexually-oriented catalog was a mistake. It is fine to market to subgroups but the main catalog should not attempt to do it, it can alienate, or at least confuse, other customers.
Having said that, we have always liked JCP for the quality of its household fabrics (towels, drapes, etc.) and clothing.
Anyone still wishing to give JCP a try after that catalog fiasco, may wish to search through its website Clearance items, some of the sale prices are quite good (on some good quality merchandise). (Allow extra time, however, because items are shown on sale and you put them into your “cart” and when you get to “checkout” the computer finally wakes up and tells you they ain’t got anymore. It can take an hour to buy just one item successfully as you have to cycle through several variations ... each all the way to the checkout page, to find one that they still really have available. And it is very frustrating if they are out of every possible variation you could accept, too. JCP needs to fix this!)
We shopped JCP our entire lives, as did our parents, and always have been very happy with the store’s good quality merchandise (in these key departments anyway). I hope they pull through... (and never send us another “gay” catalog!)
Last time I visited that store it had the look and feel of what I imagined a socialist department store would be like.
I worked in the JCP shoe department while I was in college. Pay wasn’t much, but the benefits were pretty good. ;^)
I was in a J.C. Penny last fall. ( I did not buy anything.) I noticed that the female manikins had the hip structure usually seen in black women.
So?...With only 6.5% of the U.S. population being black women, why display their clothing on models that represent such a small minority? This is especially true when the clothing is designed for the hip structure of the majority and looks wrinkled and pulled on the J.C. Penny manikins.
Dumb marketing, in my opinion.
Deader than Elvis. Same with Sears. Over.