Santa Visits BAM The holiday sales season has been kind to Books-A-Million (BAM) for three years running now, as once again the retailer recovered from a bad third quarter to enjoy a solid year-end increase. Same-store sales rose 4.1 percent for the last nine weeks of the calendar year, hitting $124 million, and earnings guidance for the fourth quarter and full year has been increased in light of recent results. (The company had lowered its projections in early September.) With 11 months of the current fiscal year over, the company says comparable store sales have risen 3.3 percent — helped […]