When JCP changed their whole format, they lost me as a customer even in the catalog sales department, where most of my shopping was done. I made not one catalog purchase from them last year. This will probably continue.
JCP is going the way of K-Mart. When K-Mart was still open in my town, whenever I went shopping there, I would ask myself: 'What am I doing here?' and quickly left. I now say the same thing to myself about JCP. I just feel kinda out of place in their store now.
Bump that - - I love Kohl's.
Funny how there’s no mention of JCP’s attempt a couple of years ago to become the destination store for homos by airing those offensive TV commercials. I think that’s what got the last CEO dumped.
This sales strategy sounds sort of quaint, like something they would announce as a great innovative breakthrough in North Korea.
I’m sure their PRO-Gay stance will save them!
I feel like I am shopping in Mexico at my JCP. Who wants to go there.
I was a big JCP customer, mostly by catalog. I even had a JCP credit card.
This was, of course, 20 years ago, back when America was the USA.
Everything there seems to be falling like a house of cards as the country becomes the USSA.
What I like (/s) are retailers who advertise "new low price" when it's more expensive than it had been the week before at regular price.
The lack of sale items worked for Apple Stores because Apple was driven by interest in new products that had huge rollouts. You don't have that in ready to wear clothing. Johnson may have been too smart for his own good.
“told The Associated Press the latest moves are not a “deviation” from his strategy but rather an “evolution.”
I’ll have to use this next time when I do something really stupid.
Kohl's is fantastic. I hope they don't screw it up.
JCP’s new ad campaign freaks me out - sort-of Old Navy-ish, but they don’t get that the Old Navy ads are meant to be a joke - if you’re serious with that type of advertising....you’re just creepy.
Penney’s needs to start coming out with coupons again. BTW, it was at Penney’s a couple of years ago that I discovered my favorite shoes of all time...Avia. They normally sell for over $50 per pair but with the sale plus coupon, they were under $20. I’ve been getting only Avia ever since. Incredibly comfortable but very durable.
Kohl's once had coupons for $10 off any purchase, no minimum. Sooooo... When they had a sale on T-Shirts for $10 I filled my closets with $10 T-shirts which were actually FREE after coupon.
Kohl’s for me as well. They just had shirt’s online with the 38” sleeve my husband needs.
I like Kohl’s. Also, if you live in the eastern Pennsylvania - New Jersey region, Boscov’s is very good. They have quality merchandise, and always have good sales. Boscov’s is one of the last of the family owned traditional department store chains in this country.
Ron Johnson is just another arrogant, egotistical a$$ clown convinced of his own brilliance. Like the jug-eared moron that infests the White House, his goal from the beginning was to “transform” JCP to a place everyone in America would want to shop. Problem is, not everyone wants to head down to the mall and deal with all the hassles and the crowds; more importantly, he gave the “one finger salute” to millions of existing JCP customers, by removing the one driver that brought them to the stores - the coupons.
The complaints regarding the change were immediate and numerous, but the “genius” pressed on with the ill-concieved plan and even went as far as to suggest the customers were too stupid to understand his brilliant marketing. Pandering to 1-2% gay population that wouldn’t be caught dead in their stores is another example of the “in your face” transformation that failed miserably, but instead of admitting his numerous mistakes, Johnson simply states that he is “evolving”.
Next month look for the emergence of JCPenney “genius bars”...