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Who would have known that pandering to a small minority of vocal whiners at the expense of insulting and alienating the bulk of their customers was going to be bad business practice?!
1 posted on 06/17/2013 7:45:49 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: Carbonsteel

The die has been cast with this organization. There will not be penance enough possible to reverse the damage. You can’t “unprint” their despicable, in-your-face sodomite ads.


2 posted on 06/17/2013 7:47:38 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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Article does not make the slightest mention of the Two Mommies advertising being a factor.


3 posted on 06/17/2013 7:48:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Who would have though giving the finger to 98% of your shoppers wouldn’t work... It’s a mystery alright.


4 posted on 06/17/2013 7:51:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why don't Democrats waste their time trying to win the votes of gun owners? - Coulter)
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yep took them totally by ‘surprise’- however their ‘apology’ means nothing as they showed their true colors by supportign hte radical homosexuals i nthe first place-

The Boston Rad Sox are doign the same damn thing now- even holding ‘gay pride’ datys at their staqdium with soem of hte proceeds goign toowards supporting radical homosexual agendas- The difference sadly though is that in Boston- many peopel are fien with supportign gay people- so the Red Sox won’t have to face any real opposition to their homosexual agenda— but IF they had celebrated ‘Heterozexual Pride day’ They woudl have gained a bunch of fans- but sicne they are pandering ot the filthy radical gay groups, they will probably only lose a small percentage of their fans because nooen in Boston really gives a crap about morality any logner-


5 posted on 06/17/2013 7:51:37 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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probably what hsoudl happen is that a cocnerted effort be made by folks to get together a petitition or form of soem kind statign soemthign alogn hte lien of “You shoved your radical agenda in our faces, and when it hurt your bottom line only hten did you apologize? Sorry, not goign to cut it- Still goign to boycott your store- You showed your true colors, suffered for it and now want to apologize? You made your bed, now lie in it”


6 posted on 06/17/2013 7:54:23 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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no... you heard us, but you are NOT listening!!!
7 posted on 06/17/2013 7:55:28 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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I will say that I drove past the local Penny’s yesterday and the parking lot was packed. It is at and-alone location with its own parking lot, so, it looks like a lot of folks are coming back.

Went by there a few months ago and the lot was virtually empty.


9 posted on 06/17/2013 7:57:07 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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11 posted on 06/17/2013 7:57:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Other than WalMart, we have one department store in our entire county - JCP. It was not uncommon for business women to attend a meeting wearing the same clothes. Then JCP stopped stocking women’s sizes to be more hip. What kind of strategy was that?


20 posted on 06/17/2013 8:06:20 AM PDT by marsh2
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They’re still doing dumb things....like not putting sale prices on all their items that are on sale. So you don’t know until you get up to the register that it’s a lower price. Well, the higher price will keep people from picking up the item in the first place.
Stupid


21 posted on 06/17/2013 8:06:58 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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I had a quiet “aside” with a Chik Fil A manager, he said ‘we’re not supposed to talk about it’ when I asked him about that incredible show of support...didn’t want to be seen as ‘spiking the ball’-

He said at his store alone they were up 139% that day.
It’s a beautiful thing.

JCP? meh


23 posted on 06/17/2013 8:09:43 AM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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Well, customers haven’t been returning to my local J.C. Penney. I was in there a week ago; the place was an absolute deserted graveyard, with nary a customer nor employee in sight.


24 posted on 06/17/2013 8:09:58 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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I believe we need to reward people who “see the light” and abandon bad morals. We applaud the new JCP management for dropping the offensive “pandering” ads. We plan to go back and visit Penneys’ again as our small contribution towards “reinforcing” a very good decision.


26 posted on 06/17/2013 8:12:09 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: Carbonsteel

Well put


31 posted on 06/17/2013 8:24:07 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: Carbonsteel

JCP painted their bridge in the colors of the rainbow...which caused the bridge to spontaneously combust.

Now, there is no way for me to get there from here.


40 posted on 06/17/2013 9:00:07 AM PDT by moovova
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I went shopping over the weekend. I got most of specialized clothing that I wanted in a Mall at two outdoor shops (REI & Eddie Bauer). I then needed few non-specialized articles of clothing (belts, socks) and so I decided to go to Macy's. I decided to cut through a store in the Mall (Nordstroms) and ended up almost in front of J.C. Penney.

I decided to go inside and shop at J.C. Penney. It was deserted. I was stunned at the price mark-downs. I purchased a name brand belt, marked normally $25 fro $2.99. I bought my socks at 50% off. I looked at sports jackets, for the heck of it and ended up purchasing a sports jacket for $9.99, that had been marked down from over $125. The store must be on the verge of bankruptcy. My opinion is that they are doing everything possible just to bring in enough cash to make salary and some fixed costs.

This is a store that I use to shop at for decades and just drifted away from. They are not going to be around much longer.

43 posted on 06/17/2013 9:03:29 AM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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That is the myth on Free Republic. What actually happened was that the new CEO abandoned, threw out, ousted more than a hundred years of how to run a retail department store.

His new way failed totally. He was an idiot who had no clue that his methods would have such a negative effect. The Ellen stuff had some influence but was marginal.


44 posted on 06/17/2013 9:04:48 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Who will shoot Liberty Valence?)
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They haven’t changed much at the top, they are still going to pander to the left and use profits-if there is any- to support leftist causes.

Let them fail.


54 posted on 06/17/2013 2:22:05 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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