Carson's Stores Plan Gift Card Giveaway to First 400 Customers on Dec. 18

CHICAGO, IL -- Chicago-area Carson’s stores plan to give away $1 million in gift cards this Sunday as part of a larger promotion by its parent company, Bon-Ton Stores Inc.

Starting at 7 a.m., Sunday, Dec.18, Carson’s stores will be giving the first 400 customers in line a gift card valued between $5 and $500, with one guaranteed $500 winner at every store location. An entrance at each Carson’s location will be identified with signs and open at 6:45 a.m. for customers to line up out of the cold weather before the store opens. It’s Bon-Ton’s way of spreading the holiday love.

“At Bon-Ton we appreciate our customers and we are sharing the joy with them this holiday season during our $1 million gift card giveaway,” Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. president and CEO Kathryn Bufano said in a news release. “As the hometown department store, giving our customers a special surprise when they walk into our store lets them know we care.”

The gift cards have no exclusions or expiration and can be given as a gift or used as tender and combined with coupons to shop immediately in any Chicagoland Carson’s store. Clearance centers, furniture galleries and Carson’s Riverside Plaza location are excluded from the promotion.