JC Penny is the answer to a question nobody is asking. The customers they already have hate the changes and those he would like avoid JCP like the plague.

It also doesn’t help that his internal hirings have been terrible and he’s surrounded himself with incompetence.

Not even close to true. They have useful customer metrics from the last few years, maybe. The infrastructure at JCP is beyond laughable. As a company, it has historically been very anti-technology. They were the last major retailer to accept credit cards. They wrote up receipts by hand in some stores into the 1970s.

He may have said it would take two years, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t done a terrible job. He has. JCP was struggling, but still selling stuff and making a profit. Now they are almost out of money and sales are way, way down. He’s going to destroy the company.

(Ex-JCP Employee here, FWIW)

Slow down, enter the correct characters and words with care.
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” … Apple cared when Steve was around” well that’s a load of crap! and possibly back to front.

You have NO insight into who motivated Apple’s reaction to the Japanese disaster.

People regularly talk about history – without any facts but lots of assumption. – What’s the point.

I’ve been an Apple user since ’88, I’ve never owned a “PC” and yet I can’t remember the halcyon days that you speak of, you seem to exist within an arcadian dream? Ponies, unicorns, rainbows and Steve Jobs acting like Mother Teresa.
As I remember it, that’s not the narrative re the principal player, who was driving the greatest business disturbance as it unfolded over the last two decades.

Steve was as pertinacious as he was philosophical, that, we have learnt.
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Apple donated $2.5 million dollars to the Red Cross appeal.

With respect of those killed and affected by Hurricane Sandy, the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami were of a different distinction.

Events of different scales, invoke different reactions, the practice of “Business as usual” can seem abhorrent to some people at the time, however to other people it is important that a sense of normality continues to structure their daily life in/during times of unrest and duress.

Besides if you truly think that Apple was purely after $’s re sales of the iPad mini, then you are delusional.

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Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

16,000 killed.

6,114 injured.

3,000 missing.

340,000 people displaced.

Fukushima Nuclear Power station – Level 7 meltdown.

$122 billion in damages.
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Go zulfucki yourself.

It’s not a cheapo bargain bin like Wal-Mart.
It’s not a discount outlet like Stein Mart.
It’s not a club like CostCo.
It’s not high end like Neiman Marcus or Nordstrom.
It’s not an off brand retailer like Dollar General or Family Dollar.

So WTF is it’s market?

JCPenney gets what they need, and Apple . . .

We know Tim Cook is learning on the job. But that’s a good thing because he really is LEARNING on the job. He reversed a massive blunder. Kind of reminds me of the hell Steve jobs went through during his first half with Apple. Jobs readily listed out his biggest blunders. Half of being a ‘genius’ is leaping into solving one’s failures.

The fact is, without Ron, JCP would be gone by now. He showed up with $40M of his own money that he invested in the company.

-jcr

Nice $65,000,000 work if you can get it, though, eh?

As an Apple shareholder, I wonder if anyone worries they just blew so much of my dosh on a muppet?

Ask the Apple Employees who worked long and thru good and bad times what is wrong …
Pushing products without giving due to the hard workers who still want to please the customers despite the manengment push for sales sales sales…
Apple has always take pride in its customers elation of its great and amazing design.
It workforce that cares for its products and Aid customers to no end !
Where is the Apple that would try to help one and all when there is a calamity ?

Opening the New York outlets got IPad mini opening is just crass after just a day of Sandy .. That’s just mean ..