So much for JC Penneys

[ThingsGottaChange]

From their online catalog:



:puke:

Edit: Should have clarified - these are their engravable items. Funny they picked those initials, though.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. O. MI. GOD! Who in their right mind would buy, and then wear those?

[rurallib]

2. restricting sales to 25% not a good marketing strategery

[catnhatnh]

3. Yeah....

Can any G.ay W.hite B.oy buy those?

[jrw14125]

4. the JC Penneys in my old home town is about 10 yrs behind

lots of silk shirts with flames and manga and dragons on them

lots of acid-washed pants, for the kids to wear around their ankles

and plenty of cheap suits

come to think of it, they're about 20 years behind

penny's jumped the shark long ago!

[Warpy]

9. Yeah, they tried to go upscale and corner the suburban matron

market. Now they seem to be thrashing around, not sure of what to do. Their clothing is like all mall clothing, going from 18 year old bar slut to 80+ and on a cruise with no stops in between.

Somebody needs to realize that we boomer women are a huge market and that our old clothing is wearing out fast. Any clothier who drops the spandex and glitter in favor of classic dressing is going to get very rich.

[jrw14125]

10. I have a standing order at xmas time - "plz, no more JCP gift cert's"

[Nay]

13. Yeah, what's with that? All I want are classic go-to-work clothes,

and they're scarcer than hell. Simple pants with pockets and a belt, knit tops or woven tops, and short-sleeved jackets to mix and match. The "ho" look has gone way too far. I'll be damned if I am going to wear a blouse to work that has nonmatching black or purple cheap lace sewn into every seam. this shit doesn't even look good on a ho.

[Hekate]

16. Macy's "Charter Club" brand is very well-made; I wait for sales...

...and coupons and whatnot. I like the clean lines.

Hekate

[niyad]

15. land's end and ll bean aren't bad places for good clothing.

[Raine]

19. That's right

I had to buy something for a wedding a couple weeks ago and checked every store in one of the largest malls in the nation and couldn't find anything that wasn't BoHo or slut wear. :mad: I finally had to get something used from a consignment shop, which turned out to be perfect but it shouldn't have come to that. Retailers need to remember baby boomers or they are going to end up suffering financially eventually. :-(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. They're good for stocking up on socks and underwear, though

:-)

[tuvor]

5. I've never heard of wearing cufflinks with someone else's initials.

Maybe if it were an heirloom, but this is just weird.

[tives12]

6. ooooo ok

Well, that thing underneath the initials does look like a little bit like a bullet.

[saltpoint]

8. Those teensy dots? That's Junior's brain. Actual size.

[saltpoint]

7. Their one-size-fits-all khaki Abu Ghraib hoods are nice, too.

Pricey, though.

[LeftyMom]

11. I quit shopping there when I saw the toddler-sized thongs

in the little girls' section. Just coundn't give anyplace that sells something that nasty my money.

Pity, they were the only place that had reasonable prices and selection on 49ers and Kings stuff in 3X- I have to look around a lot more to find my Dad a present now. :(

[KitchenWitch]

17. My head exploded at my daughter's dance class

We were all getting them ready for the dress rehearsal, and one of the girls (aged about 4 or 5) was wearing a thong...

:wow:

I was totally shocked.

[Hekate]

18. Ewwww. I saw a kids' T-shirt that said "Want to Buy My Sister?"

That was over at Robinsons-May and I could not believe I was seeing that. Sure, some 8 to 10-year-old boy would think it was just snarky sibling rivalry stuff, but you KNOW that adults all along the merchandising trail knew exactly where that comes from.

The thong thing brings back unpleasant memories of censoring my pre-teen daughter's clothes (she's 30 now). At some point this culture decided it was okay to sexualize little girls -- and not just a little, either.

Hekate

[Richard Steele]

14. It could just as easily be an ANTI-B*sh statement, y'know....

Perhaps that choice of initials was meant to subtly
remind folks that Dubya is a wealthy East-coast blue-blood,
not the folksy Texas cowboy he pretends to be?

[onethatcares]

20. I don't ever buy there

since they ran a great drugstore corporation into the ground here in Florida. It only took them about 8 yrs to kill the Eckerd Drug Corportation putting my wife and 2500 other employees back into the unemployment line.

[theHandpuppet]

21. Silly... those are coke cuffs

For a President's emergency stash!

[qanda]

22. Voice of opposition here

I love Penneys. The one here in Maryland provides the best deal for halfway decent children's clothing and I shop there whenever I need to update my kids' wardrobe.

I don't know why those initials are on those cufflinks, but if I stopped shopping at every place that could even possibly have a link to Bush I would run out of places to go.