The Bon-Ton Stores holiday sales up 3.8 percent

The Bon-Ton Stores has announced that its comparable store sales for the nine-week holiday period ended January 3, 2015 increased 5.3 percent. Total sales for the combined months of November and December were 796.4 million dollars, a 3.8 percent increase over sales of 767.4 million dollars in the prior year nine-week holiday period.