“JC Penney’s stock tumbled 8% Friday in premarket trading, after the department store posted a $203 million loss for the third quarter,” Hibah Yousuf reports for CNN Money.
“The retailer continues to struggle amid a massive overhaul effort. JC Penney’s loss amounted to 93 cents a share for the quarter, more than thirteen times worse than what analysts were expecting,” Yousuf reports. “And sales at stores open at least a year declined more than 26% , the most since CEO Ron Johnson took the helm a year ago. The company’s total sales of $2.9 billion were also well below consensus expectations.”
Yousuf reports, “‘Today, JCP is really a tale of two companies,’ said Johnson in a statement. ‘By far the largest part of our store is the old JC Penney, which continues to struggle and experience significant challenges as evidenced by our third quarter results. However, the new JCP, centered around the shop concept, is gaining traction with customers every day and is surpassing our own expectations in terms of sales productivity which continues to give us confidence in our long term business model.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Department stores spoiled their customers with coupons and so-called “sales.” They may beyond hope for redemption by now.
On the bright side, we hear there’s a perfect opening for you at Apple, Ron!
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Ron & Tim: Let’s get the band back together.
The Redemption Tour.
Tim : Ron, you want to keep selling cheap rags or keep changing the world?
Ron, come back to Apple!!
i stopped shopping there when their new ad campaign had homosexual couples in them. looks like i’m not the only one.
Ed you can crawl into your basement and never again emerge and we’ll all be fine without your narrow mind among us. Otherwise join the 20th century and grow up.
How can depicting a couple of fudge packers & dykes make the brand any more appealing?
You are absolutely right Ed and BLN.
Perhaps they should have used a klansman in full regalia or a priest buggering an alter boy.
FOAD you Bigots…
+1,000,000
*1,000,000
You disgusting ignorant neanderthal.
BLN, you are a mystery. Do you not realize every moronic comment like that wipes out anything intelligent you’ve had to say in the past year? Yet another reason to ignore EVERY comment you post. Geez…
The vile homophobic halfwit has NEVER said anything intelligent.
+1000
@ed- why don’t you slink on home after Rmoney and Rayon/Teflon?
really ? how old are you ? 10 ?
ed, you should be pleased that it looks like you’re not the only homosexual couple.
Dick
I started shopping there when Ed left.
Good job too. You look very appealing in that Chick-Fil-A Breakfast biscuit, and those waffle fries accessorise with it so well!
Apple consumers miss you Ron! Come back (no questions asked), your job is now open! Go for it! Return to the Mothership it needs you!
Johnston’s comments were revealing. He said the new concept stores were doing better than expected and that it was the old style stores that were dragging sales down.
That may be spin but his ideas could be working.
Of course it would be great to have him back at Apple but it would seem JCP is still a work in progress.
Well… Then the question that needs to be asked is “Why the hell are there still so many old-style stores out there?” What’s taking the conversion so long?
——RM
They have over 1100 stores. It doesn’t make sense to change all the stores and then find out the approach doesn’t work. I imagine that Johnston tested the new format in several geographies before deciding to expand.
The guy started in June 2011. Changing an organization that large takes time.
I’m not saying he has been successful but from the conference call he is claiming the new approach is working.
As an investor, I came very close to shorting JCP several months ago. (Oh how I wish I had of shorted JCP!)
I have been doing a quite a bit of research on JCP. From what I can tell customers seem to prefer the old stores to the new ones.
If trends continue Ron Johnson will be out of work by April 2013. I expect the board to fire him if the Christmas season does not significantly improve business.
“I have been doing a quite a bit of research on JCP. From what I can tell customers seem to prefer the old stores to the new ones.”
Care to share the source of that research?
I say that because EVERYTHING I have seen, says just the opposite (up to and including the new concept “brand” departments (store in a store) which seem to produce the highest $/Sq’ even when retrofitted into existing, un-renovated, locations)