J.C. Penney to America: 'It's Not You, It's Me. (Now Please Come Back.)'
Old-school retailer J.C. Penney faces several big challenges moving forward—but executing social media strategy isn’t one of them.
The company fired CEO/former Apple man Ron Johnson in April after a big sales dive and followed his exit with an all-media campaign designed to address the backlash over controversial changes adopted during his tenure. It all started with this apologetic TV spot:
JCP continued the campaign by turning its social media forums into customer service complaint lines, promoting the #jcpListens tag and asking for feedback on Facebook and Twitter in order to absorb frustrated shoppers’ many suggestions on how to improve the business.
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