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Former Apple Retail Chief Ron Johnson’s time at JC Penney was not a good one for the company. Johnson tried to revamp the retailer’s image from a clearing house for cheap junk sold at discounted prices during an endless spree of “sales” and “coupons” into a refined boutique, a store-within-a-store retail concept similar to the Apple Store.
The result? A $12.99 billion year-over-year decline in revenue that got Johnson fired as CEO after his first year on the job. And if that’s not bad enough, JC Penney is now adding insult to injury by releasing a commercial apologizing for the changes he made.
The new spot was posted to JC Penney’s Facebook and YouTube pages. Here’s the voice over:
It’s no secret, recently J.C. Penney changed. Some changes you liked and some you didn’t, but what matters with mistakes is what we learn. We learned a very simple thing: to listen to you, to hear what you need, to make your life more beautiful. Come back to J.C. Penney. We heard you.
According to JC Penney, the spot was actually approved during Ron Johnson’s watch.
Ironically, while mistakes were made during Ron Johnson’s JC Penney transformation, his core strategy was very sound. He had a deep, abiding respect for JC Penney’s brand and its customers; his biggest mistake was ripping out the old crappy JC Penney before he could fully replace it with the new, shinier one.
Via: JC Penney
