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J.C. Penney says President Francis is leaving
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| 6/18/2012
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Posted on 06/19/2012 8:13:51 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: ponygirl
A big part of the problem is that his marketing strategy did not take into account the fact that women LIKE buying things on sale!
Shopping is no fun without a sale.
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posted on
06/19/2012 8:59:57 AM PDT
by
tamster
To: ponygirl
Francis was responsible for the marketing of a controversial new pricing plan that aims to get rid of hundreds of sales events.
The pricing plan is "controversial" but same-sex parents isn't? BS.
I thought the pricing plan was a great idea and would stop (and usually buy) at Penny's first when shopping.
But when they came out with the queer parents thing - I stopped going there completely.
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:03:44 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: murron
I agree with you completely. I’m going to make an effort. “Please stop using the term gay. There is nothing gay about these perverts.”
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:05:43 AM PDT
by
duckworth
(Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
To: tamster
Shopping is no fun without a sale.My wife cannot buy something without telling me how well it fits, how well it will go with her other "things", and how much she saved on it.
I cannot buy anything without saying how powerful it is, how it will go with my other "things", and how much time it will save me.
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:06:00 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
To: murron
“Please stop using the term gay. There is nothing gay about these perverts. They are homosexuals, sodomites, plain and simple. I have a lovely sister whose name is Gay and I cringe every time I see the term gay used for perversion. This is their way of making it seem like what they do is OK, and its not. We shouldnt indulge them by using their verbage.”
I have tried for years to get FReepers to use SSAD (same sex attraction disorder) but it is hard to fight the wordsmiths on the left.
Their agenda may be completely wrong but like any good follower of Saul Alinsky, the left is very adept of perverting the language to make their perversion seem normal and main stream even when logic would always dictate they were 100% wrong.
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:07:10 AM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
To: tamster
While I’m not one of them, that seems to be the case.
There were lots of posts on their facebook page of women complaining about shopping no longer being fun and not feeling like they were getting good deals without coupons anymore.
I’d rather go in, know I’m going to get a good item at a fair price and get out. Shopping has never and will never be fun to me. I get hives just thinking about through racks! But I think I’m in the minority. =D
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:09:53 AM PDT
by
Nickname
To: ponygirl
Penny’s has had my last purchase when I saw their Father’s Day ad.
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:18:55 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(Obama, ROPE and CHAINS.)
To: N. Theknow
Guess somebody actually believed 2% of the population really really really has more money than the other 98%.
The very idea is ridiculous. Since when did florist and hair stylist make more than the rest of us?
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:20:34 AM PDT
by
youngidiot
(Hear Hear!)
To: Wurlitzer
>>>I have tried for years to get FReepers to use SSAD (same sex attraction disorder) but it is hard to fight the wordsmiths on the left.>>>
Love it!
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:22:37 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(Obama, ROPE and CHAINS.)
To: geologist
We all make mistakes. Some are more egregious than others. Some of the best old businesses for the average buyer are gone, CR Anthony's, Sears & Roebuck, Montgomery Wards has changed extensively, Walmart has proved to be tough stiff competition which has caused many changes. Penny's has had good quality basic items and some nice leathers coats vest, Jackets, etc.,
Walmart has triumphed and the others you mentioned failed because Walmart is obsessed with keeping prices low. It's a great business model (Standard Oil, IKEA, etc). The other retailers eventually succumb to the idiotic idea that they can increase their markup (by "just a little") and it gets out of hand. They end up being overpriced and irrelevant.
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:25:53 AM PDT
by
youngidiot
(Hear Hear!)
To: Wurlitzer
Their agenda may be completely wrong but like any good follower of Saul Alinsky, the left is very adept of perverting the language to make their perversion seem normal and main stream even when logic would always dictate they were 100% wrong. It's not Alinsky they're following, but Satan - the first twister of words.
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:34:59 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Wurlitzer
How about “Homosexual Queer”?
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posted on
06/19/2012 9:56:43 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: txrangerette
>Im sure gay ads didnt help, but if you assume this is all about gay ads youd be way off.
Not in my neighborhood - To many that I know, the gay thing was the last straw.
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posted on
06/19/2012 10:13:21 AM PDT
by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
To: ponygirl
![](http://static.flickr.com/86/253745129_e00786bc91.jpg?v=0)
Crow pie, anyone?
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posted on
06/19/2012 10:29:10 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Real men are not threatened by strong women." -- Sarah Palin)
To: ponygirl
I’m Expecting Jerry Sandusky to be named new spokesperson any minute now ...
To: Nickname
You always hear in corporate jargon that change is good. You have to be adaptive, exciting, inventive (think outside the box) or you will fall behind. Dependability is considered boring. Like the book who moved my cheese, but sometimes there are consequences for these inventive changes.
But lets look at the examples of failed changes.
Just ask companies like Netflix who made these changes. Or makers of new Coke, Deloreans, Beta machines, and Edsels.
To: txrangerette
I also did not like the gay ads, but you’re right the problems started before then. Their customer base had become accustomed to weekend coupon sales. You were never going to wean them onto an “every day low pricing” strategy. So having lost their traditional customer base, they set out after a new one (Gays and Metrosexuals) who would never be caught setting foot in JC Pennys.
To: ponygirl
![](http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/jcpenney+Launch+Event+in+NYC+TBmCpK5ZWt_l.jpg)
Michael Francis
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posted on
06/19/2012 11:00:09 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: kcvl
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posted on
06/19/2012 11:05:18 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
To: N. Theknow
Guess somebody actually believed 2% of the population really really really has more money than the other 98%.”””
Seems like “The New Math’ taught for the last 40 years or so isn’t really working.
Penny’s has lost me forever. I really liked their linens, too. Now I will have to search online, I guess.
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