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<p>When my coupon has expired, I’ve had the SA call someone in management and tell them I’m a Macy’s Star Reward Credit Card customer and they have always granted me the discount. They do have some flexibility with this. I agree - they have gotten out of hand with the coupons. I carry around a wad of Macy’s coupons in my purse. The nice thing is they usually don’t expire for a long time.</p>
<p>Those commercials are incredibly annoying - who wants to hear people scream? It’s enough to make me never shop there again - just out of spite. Come to think of it, I haven’t been in a JCP in about 20 years so I guess they won’t be losing much.</p>
<p>Stopped in yesterday at JCP looking for White Sale prices for Flannel sheets. No sale taking place and the 5 sets of leftover flannel sheets were at regular price…twice as much as another department store in the mall. Hope the new low pricing will be better.</p>
<p>LOL, cartera. I have not shopped at JCP for many years either, but last December I popped in one of their stores and found a really cute cocktail party dress for the little kiddo for only $40. I was surprised that at that store there weren’t so many items made in China - I guess China became too expensive, and JCP moved their manufacturing to cheaper grounds such as Vietnam.</p>
<p>The new commercials are VERY annoying.</p>
<p>My H and two teenage boys have done well at JC Penney in the past. I haven’t bought any women’s clothes there in a very long time…years. However I’m willing to go in and look around after Feb. 1st.</p>
<p>And I definitely look at the tags to try to buy more American now. I get very excited when I see a “Made in America” tag…doesn’t happen often enough!</p>
<p>I used the coupons for online ordering for my son’s uber tall and skinny Levi jeans and for free shipping when I ordered stuff for my mom. I hope this benefit doesn’t disappear.</p>
<p>I hadn’t heard this announcement but was in our very small JCP this week looking for something for my tiny 15 yo D. I immediately noticed prices were lower and the tags were different. They were all even dollar amounts. I am definitely not a brand conscious person, hate clothes shopping, and just want to be done. The tags just looked …cheapy. It reminded me of Dollar General, etc. Can’t really put my finger on it, but that was my immediate reaction.</p>
<p>Will be interesting to see if it works. I hate all the sales gimmicks. I find Kohl’s particularly annoying, esp. when we buy many of our clothes there and I scratch off my mailer and get 15% and my aunt gets 30%.</p>
<p>I have stopped shopping at Kohl’s due to the dopey coupon game. You have to use the coupons in one 7 day period, ugh. I also feel duped when I buy something online and one week later get an email to buy it half price. Ugh. But the even dollar pricing at JCP? Who cares. $19.99 vs. $20? Really? Could care less. Do like the idea of no coupons. Especially the weekly use it or lose it thingees. Don’t mind the buy - more - get - bigger - discount style of pricing. Stuff you can decide right there in the store. Sad to hear Costco is doing the coupon thing; we don’t have one nearby but I always missed it. Love Trader Joe’s and shop there more and more and more.</p>
<p>Wow! I just got this beautiful JC Penney sales magazine in the mail today. It’s similar to the quality of catalogs from Nieman Marcus, Dillards, and Macy’s, that you receive at Christmas, only it’s 95 pages long. How can they afford this?</p>
<p>I got a catalog too but didn’t have time to look at it yet. Noticed it sais “February” on the front. Surely they aren’t going to put one out often???</p>
<p>Did you notice they worked really hard to identify it on all the pages as just “JCP” instead of JC Penney’s?</p>
<p>“I really hate Macy’s new coupon game. It used to be that Macy’s card holders would get the discount automatically if they were charging to their card; this is no longer the case. You have to remember to bring in the stupid little pieces of paper! 20% off a $300 bedding purchase is nothing to sneeze at. When the SA refused to give me the discount, I walked away without buying anything.”</p>
<p>I shop at Macy’s usually once a year, on International Gray Sweater Day, January 1st. Got a blue one this year, an “Oscar de la Renta” (yeah, right), tagged at $89.50. I gave the salesperson all my coupons, five or six of them, and charge card, and said, “You figure it out; I can’t.” The final price came in at $17. Seemed all right to me. In fact, I would have spent more.</p>
<p>Up to $20.</p>
<p>Never heard of International Gray Sweater Day–maybe it’s not celebrated in HI? Sounds like you got a great deal both times–saving $300 by walking out & $17 for a nice brand-name sweater!</p>
<p>Ive never heard of it either! </p>
<p>Just looked at the JCP feb catalog. Realize that I’m just not a department store person. Wonder how busy they will be on the first and third Friday each month when they put the “blue” stickers on which means deep markdowns.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of International Gray Sweater Day either. When I googled it, the first entry was this thread on CC!</p>
<p>Remember when KFC was Kentucky Fried Chicken? Or Radio Shack is now the Shack ? JCP is trying to change their image away from Penneys. Probably want to be more like Target -way cooler !!</p>
<p>JCP will be placing certain items on sale for an entire month, and sending the catalog each month. I read that the sale items will usually coincide with what is going on during the month, such as jewelry in February (Valentine’s Day) and Christmas decor in December. Before I heard this was happening, I visited a nearby, smaller store last week, and there were no “SALE” signs anywhere. The store actually looked kinda vacant (and boring) without the SALE signs above every rack and table. I walked out because I was not going to pay their “regular” price for socks! LOL</p>
<p>I’m very sick of these commercials but still excited to see the changes.</p>
<p>I hate the commercials. My first thought was that I wouldn’t ever go there in protest of those annoying commercials. Then I thought I would walk in the front door and scream “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”.
So, if you are in a JCP and some idiot starts screaming, it might be me.</p>
<p>International Gray Sweater was named by moi - yours truly - to commemorate the New Year by avoiding all tv football games and going to a virtually empty mall, and purchasing, you guessed it, a gray sweater (except when it’s blue - which is “honorary gray”). If any of my kids are around, I take them to the mall as well, and buy them one thing each (with preference for, you guessed it,…)</p>
<p>(Of course, the “Oscar de la Renta” sweater cost them maybe $2.50 to produce in some slave factory in Bangladesh…)</p>