"In what will go down as the stupidest PR stunt in modern history General Mills as a company has endorsed same sex marriage," said group spokesman Andy Parrish in an email. "I know it seems odd for a company who spends billions of dollars marketing products to moms and dads with young children to do such a thing, but General Mills has tried to please a small minority of individuals who feel entitled to change the definition for all society…"
I liked JCP for their clothing line, but won’t shop there now.
Loved GM cereals, but since they celebrate sodomy, I quit buying...I’m doing fine with Kellogg’s and Quaker Oats...fell in love again with Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter! :)
Politics and business don’t mix. Why in the name of Sam Hernandez would you want to alienate potentially half of your clientele? For every gay you get you lose six “non-gays”. If I were a stockholder I would vote out the entire boad of directors on general principle.
While I’m soo very tired of people/companies/whatever coming out “in support of gay marriage” I wonder what Penny’s stock was before the announcement.
Seems like a half/non story to me. Penny’s has been struggling for years.
If JCP doesn’t turn things around, and fast, I can see them being a ‘zero’. Then again, there’s usually strong support at $0. LOL
IMO, what REALLY killed them wasn’t so much the gay marriage stuff as it was their stopping coupons going out to customers. My wife used to get great coupons from them all the time, which lead her to often go to their stores. Once the coupons stopped coming, she stopped going back.
I don’t think they need to push “traditional values” either. How about staying the hell away from ALL ‘social issues’, and just being a great store?
If I want to learn about social issues and related matters, I’ll go to church. When I go to a dammed store, I want to BUY STUFF!!! If I wanted to learn about gay marriage, gay people in general, or anything else to do with gayness, I’ll go to San Francisco.... NOT JCP!
Go Ellen....Depraved “shark” preying on society at large. Maybe you can get the stock down to 10 by Christmas.
I’m shocked! You mean social activism, pandering to homosexual’s and trying half-arsed advertising strategies that may have worked for Apple which is able to maintain high profit margins due to its legion of fanboy followers doesn’t reflect well in running a chain of department stores? Whoulda thunk it!
If only there were a store that advertised to families, no, not pandering with a bunch of American flags and apple pie served at the counter, but just offering good quality product at a reasonable price with helpful, knowledgeable employees and a focus on minimizing fluff and overhead without bending to left-leaning trends or social activism.....that would just be amazing
To be perfectly fair, JCP’s stock has been tanking since 2007. It bounced back a bit in 2009. The problem is that JCP doesn’t have anything anyone wants. Trying to gay-wash their retail operations isn’t going to help at all - gay people wouldn’t be caught dead in JCP merchandise as it is not stylish enough, and it would just turn off whatever conservative or religious shoppers (not just Christian, but Jewish and Islamic) that still shop there (for whatever reason.
Personally, I can’t say I participated in the boycott - because it isn’t a boycott if you weren’t going to shop there anyway. I haven’t bought anything from JCP in over 15 years. :P
Why must they get into these issues on one side or the other? It is bad for business for the whole country when something like this happens, not just for Penney.
bfl
Companies need to realize that gays make up 2 percent of the population, not 20 percent. They should also realize that once they get past Hollywood, liberal educators and pandering politicians, the majority of everyone else thinks homosexuality is gross and perverted. Most people have a gay friend at work, or a perverted family member somewhere, but that doesn’t mean they want to shop at a ferry fest. It’s bad enough that there is a Sandusky hanging out on every corner, but downright disturbing to be where there is one jumping out from every clothing rack.
I will never understand these companies that want to pander to homosexuals when their customer base is middle America. Let’s face it gays do not purchase many family items. Pennys is the place to purchase school clothes and summer swimsuits. What were they thinking?
Good!
Let them die.
Whodathunk that hiring Ellen Degenerate as Spokelesbo, and launching an All-Gay, All-The-Time ad campaign for a company that sells primarily to families and children, would have an adverse effect?
To the customer service rep reading this,
I actually feel sorry for you; you have my sympathy. I am sure you may have read several harsh emails already; many of which probably read as if the situation is your fault. The “leaders” within your company are sacrificing your company’s jobs and status on the altar of political correctness and evil. The stock price is now less than half of what it was when they announced ellen Degenerate as a spokesman. It has only been five months and the stock price has halved and the credit status reduced to junk (a reflection of JCP’s moral status).
If this trend continues, JCP will begin to layoff more employees and possibly even close stores. This at time when unemployment/underemployment is rampant; jobs are scarce and necessities like gas and food are on the rise. These employees will be left to face a frustrating job search and struggling to survive on unemployment. If CEO Ron Johnson is let go, you can guarantee he will be granted a golden parachute worth millions.
Sir or Ma’am, please do not feel that I am writing you to gloat or express glee over another’s misery. Rather, please heed this as friendly advice to seek a different job that you can turn to - as JCP loses customers, there will be less need for service representatives. I encourage you to pass this on to your co-workers.......especially your supervisors. Hopefully enough management personnel will send the sentiment higher and coupled with dismal financials, some sane member of the board will move to ouster Ron Johnson and the homosexual agenda.
Yours,
No Longer a Customer
To the customer service rep reading this,
I actually feel sorry for you; you have my sympathy. I am sure you may have read several harsh emails already; many of which probably read as if the situation is your fault.
The "leaders" within your company are sacrificing your company's jobs and status on the altar of political correctness and evil. The stock price is now less than half of what it was when they announced ellen Degenerate as a spokesman. It has only been five months and the stock price has halved and the credit status reduced to junk (a reflection of JCP's moral status).
If this trend continues, JCP will begin to layoff more employees and possibly even close stores. This at time when unemployment/underemployment is rampant; jobs are scarce and necessities like gas and food are on the rise. These employees will be left to face a frustrating job search and struggling to survive on unemployment. If CEO Ron Johnson is let go, you can guarantee he will be granted a golden parachute worth millions.
Sir or Ma'am, please do not feel that I am writing you to gloat or express glee over another's misery. Rather, please heed this as friendly advice to seek a different job that you can turn to - as JCP loses customers, there will be less need for service representatives. I encourage you to pass this on to your co-workers.......especially your supervisors.
Hopefully enough management personnel will send the sentiment higher and coupled with dismal financials, some sane member of the board will move to ouster Ron Johnson and the homosexual agenda.
Yours,
No Longer a Customer
I was in a Penney’s store this week, while exploring the local mall. The whole mall looks depopulated, but that may be merely this ex-Manhattanite’s impression of the local norm.
In Penney’s, nobody was buying anything, including me. Maybe five customers in the entire store at midday.
Again, this may not be strange for the region — central Pennsylvania. I mostly shop online.
Saw a sign near the cashier that read, “Line Forms Here.” Like from a lost civilization, that. Even if you threw in the employees it wouldn’t have made a proper line.