The Buckle, Inc. today that comparable store net sales, for stores open at least one year, for the four-week period ended May 28, 2011 increased 8.8 percent versus the year-ago month.

Net sales for the four-week fiscal month ended May 28, 2011 increased 12.7 percent to $68.1 million from net sales of $60.4 million for the prior year four-week fiscal month ended May 29, 2010.

Comparable store net sales year-to-date for the seventeen-week period ended May 28, 2011 increased 8.3 percent from comparable store net sales for the seventeen-week period ended May 29, 2010. Net sales for the seventeen-week fiscal period ended May 28, 2011 increased 12.0 percent to $308.2 million from net sales of $275.2 million for the prior year seventeen-week fiscal period ended May 29, 2010.

Headquartered in Kearney, Nebraska, Buckle currently operates 423 retail stores in 41 states. During fiscal May, the Company opened two new stores in Tacoma, Washington and Joliet, Illinois and closed one store. The company operated 412 stores in 41 states as of June 2, 2010.