Bon-Ton, as we knew it, is now gone. But, as you will see later in the post, Bon-Ton may actually be primed to make a limited comeback. This post highlights just one of more than 200 stores that underwent a liquidation sale earlier this year. This location is the Bloomsburg, PA store in the dead Columbia Mall.
While Bon-Ton is gone, its website is not. After concluding the liquidation sales last month, Bon-Ton and its family of banners have been bought by an Indianapolis company who plan to open some physical brick and mortar locations. It remains to be seen as to what locations will reopen.
Can you fill me in on the logo history here? I thought the hexagon logo was standard across the chain and all of its brands, but I don't see it anywhere in this store - either on the entrances, or (what I assume is) that newer interior "Welcome to your Bloomsburg Bon-Ton" sign.
ReplyDeleteThe hexagon logo was the last and newest logo though very few Bon-Ton stores themselves used it. It became a part of the logo after buying Carson's. Very few Bon-Ton stores actually saw a remodel as most of them looked the same way to the very end as the day they opened. Bon-Ton's other banners in the midwest got more attention.
DeleteWhat you see here in Bloomsburg would be a Bon-Ton from the '80s that hasn't been updated.
That explains it, then. Thanks!
DeleteThe lower-cased logo started out around 1979 or so and stayed until 1990. Obviously some stores never updated theirs.
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