John Harris & Anthony Salamone/The Morning Call – Kutztown resident June Van Duren has remained a loyal Bon-Ton customer, often venturing to Trexlertown to shop even as the department store chain’s once-sprawling offerings began to dwindle in recent years. “They just don’t carry the merchandise they used to have, the variety,” she said. Her complaint […]

Jon Harris/The Morning Call – Ailing department store chain The Bon-Ton Stores Inc. appears to be headed for a restructuring — sooner rather than later. In a filing Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bon-Ton said it is engaged in discussions with debtholders regarding potential restructuring alternatives. While the company, co-headquartered in York and […]

Jeff Shaw/Western Real Estate Business – When Gene Munster, managing partner of Minneapolis-based venture capital firm Loup Ventures, predicted that e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) would buy department store chain Target (NYSE: TGT) this year, he knew such a declaration would make waves. In a New Year’s Day post on the Loup Ventures website titled “8 […]