The CEO and Board need to be answerable, as well.
The recently-sacked President wasn’t hired in a vacuum.
We used to buy household furnishings from jcp. Then they came out with their anti-family support for homosexual marriage. We have not spent a dime there since. They join Homo Depot, Target, Sears, etc. on our boycott list. It is not difficult to replace them in order to run our home according to our principles.
JC Penney sales for the quarter off 55% - changing gears won’t fix it now. Those pissed off social conservatives will NEVER shop at JCP again.
Business is down for a number of retailers, but a 55% drop is hard to explain otherwise.
“hired last October “at great expense”. . .from Target”
I watched those odd Target ads for a year before I realized the company was Target. They would just should the logo - as if we all were supposed to know what that meant.
I’ve notice they are now doing a similar thing with jcpennys. I turn the channel when Ellen appears.
To the J. C. Penney Company:
I was a J.C. Penney associate from 1979 through 1986 (Granada Hills, Canoga Park, and Northridge, CA.) In the 25+ years since then I have remained a loyal customer frequently shopping in J.C. Penney retail stores and online. I would speculate that nearly 2/3 of my casual and business apparel has been purchased through the J. C. Penney Company. While traveling on vacation once I even made a detour to visit Kemmerer, Wyoming just to see where the company that had been such a large part of my life began.
Sadly it would appear that my decades long relationship with J.C.Penney is about to end. I am greatly troubled by the recent departure from the J.C. Penney Company's traditional American roots and the Christian values of founder James Cash Penney.
Suffice it to say there is presently a culture war in this country over traditional families and the very nature of the definition of marriage. For a retail company to choose sides on this ongoing controversy is foolhardy and flies in the face of the moral values that its founder held dear. Indeed, even if the company had been founded by a secular entrepreneur, embracing one side of this debate is an insult to the great majority of the American public and simply a bad business decision.
Regardless of the intent or reasoning of the company's decision to embrace same-sex marriage in its catalogs and advertising, until I am informed or learn otherwise of J.C. Penney returning to the American traditions and respect for its Christian roots, I will no longer be a customer neither through retail stores or purchases online.
Sincerely
The gay agenda was a huge part of their decline here in central Indiana. I no longer visit JCP, and neither do many people I know, all because of Ellen.
Looking down on traditional Americans - while boosting the 2% gay liberal elites - gays who would NEVER stoop to shop at JC Penney was also - shall we say - interesting...
Penney's 'coupon' policy was also elitist. JC Penney had delusions of being an upscale boutique for liberal elites. Now, few of us - few in the middle class - will shop there. We know when we're not welcome.
Wouldn't shop there if it was the last place on earth.
Good luck Penney - good luck getting gays, liberal elites, members of Occupy ( paid $7 an hour to show up) and inner city blacks living on disability and food stamps to keep your store open. You could have had liberals and conservatives, but you couldn't resist being 'oh so superior' to traditional Americans... Must sucks to be you, JC Penney.
It is retail 101 to not take sides in politics or religion. This is what makes Capitalism so egalitarian. Everybody’s money spends and if you are selling you must try to please as many potential buyers as possible.
They are not gay. They are homosexual.
One more stumble toward bankruptcy.
We refuse to shop there anymore - the quality is crap and prices far too high. We purchased some kitchen goods at the local JCP and later in the day discovered the exact same item (right down to the part number) for sale in the local Wally World at 1/3 less.
The thing that killed it for the wife was the morass on coupons. Too much hassle, far too many mistakes at the counter when items rang up with bizarre prices or cupons were refused.
JCP will go the way ot K-mart (already gone from here) and Sears - they priced themselves out of the market...and the crappy customer service didn’t help.
Absolutely about the gay agenda.
It is my hope that JC Penney gets made an example of. They made their bed and now they can lie in it, designer sheets and all. When empty buildings with fading letters are everywhere as an example to the world, then the message will be sent, and not a moment before.
If gay people want to be gay, let them keep it in the privacy of their dwelling places, like the rest of the normal people do.
Marriage is an institution established by The Creator to be between one man and one woman. Only The Creator can changed the established meaning of marriage, and that hasn’t happened. Since our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, recognizes The Creator as the author of our inalienable rights, then it seems logical that our nation would stick with that. JC Penney’s did not. They sided with the Marxist against The Creator.
When their bldgs. crumble into dust, the message will be clear. Americans stand on the side of The Creator.
This isn’t a “christian” thing, this is about what is absolutely right and absolutely wrong.
Empty, dusty, faded JC Penney bldgs. standing as monuments across America as a testament to the failed Marxist agenda— now that is hope and change I can believe in!
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As an “expert” formerly known as a sales associate at Penneys, I know that most of my colleagues are concerned about the direction the company is going.
What I don’t think a lot of people understand is that this “destruction” of Penneys is totally by design. Ron Johnson has said as much. It is his vision that when everything he wants done is done, the Penneys we have all known will no longer exist.
The intent is to streamline brands and the amount of merchandise and to have within the store a so called “town square” atmosphere.
Rather than one large department store. There will be small “shops” that feature certain labels. They also plan to have “social” areas where one can have a coffee, surf the net on free wi-fi and participate in cooking demos with their new Martha Stewart line.
We are all asked to bear with the changes, be patient and confidently explain to customers that the changes will be great and make “JCP” a shopping experience unlike any other.
It’s all about Ron Johnson.
I have been a loyal Penneys customer for all of my life and was happy when I was hired there after being out of the workforce for over 20 years, but that has all changed. Now, I am just biding my time and don’t know if I will be around to see the changes come to fruition.
It’s hard to see such an integral part of Americana go by the way side.
You mean the strategy of pandering to sodomites has failed? How is that possible?
We are lied to daily that the sodomites and their supporters are the ones with all the money, numbers and power in America these days.
Schadenfreude!
But sorry for the innocent employees who will be swept out by this calculated blunder.
James Cash Penny is rolling over in his GRAVE, because of what JCP is now, which is none of his VALUES!!
Failed turnaround strategy? More like a failed reacharound strategy.