Bon-Ton Stores Inc. announced comparable store sales for the five weeks and year to date ended December 29, 2012. The company announced that comparable store sales for the five weeks increased 2.4%. Total sales increased 1.5% to $512.9 million in the current year compared with $505.2 million in the prior year period.

Year-to-date comparable store sales increased 0.6%. Year-to-date total sales increased 0.3% to $2,718.6 million, compared with $2,710.3 million in the same period last year.