Bon-Ton

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percent from August 2007 and total sales for August weredown 9.3 percent from a year ago. Bon-Toj (NASDAQ: BONT) said Thursday that sales for the four weeks endeds August 30were $207.1 million, comparerd with $228.3 million for the priodr year. Year-to-date total sales were $1.58 billion compare d with $1.67 billion for the same periodlast year. “Augusgt results were negatively impacted by the continued weaknesws in customer traffic as well as a reducede level of clearance merchandise inour assortment,” said Tony Bon-Ton’s Milwaukee-based vice chairman and president of “With continued macroeconomic pressures affecting those regions in which we we believe that our customer is buying closedr to need.
” Buccina said Bon-Ton’s business did improve in the finalk week of August, but the retailer’s executives will get a bette r measure of fall trends when they reviea September results. The best-performinfg categories for Augustwere children’s, cosmetics and Bon-Ton’s weakest-performing categories were furniture, and men’s apparel. Buccinw said Bon-Ton executives are pleased with the initial sales of its new lines -- Victor Alfaro, Evan-Picone and Relativity Career. Bon-Tob Stores, which is based in Pa.
, operates 280 stores, including 12 furniture galleries, undefr the Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Bostojn Store, Carson Pirie Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s and Younkers nameplates and, under the Parisia nameplate, three stores in the Detroit area.