Ken Tuntland, owner of Spokane Valley grocery store Barney's Harvest Foods, has opened an outlet of Chicago-based retailer-owned cooperative hardware chain True Value Co. inside the store, he says.
Barney's Harvest Foods, which operates under the co
As the recreational marijuana industry slowly rolls out throughout Washington state, retailers here are reporting modest initial sales.
However, several challenges remain.
As of Oct. 21, Spokane County has 55 approved marijuana producers, 39 approved
Coeur d'Alene natural foods and health store Pilgrim's Market has completed a $300,000 renovation of a 2,000-square-foot commissary kitchen and bakery, says owner Joe Hamilton.
The market, located in about 25,000 square feet of retail space at 1316
Amy Barker, co-owner of South Hill pet-supply shop Prairie Dog Pet Mercantile, has a house full of dogs and cats, including some very young ones-but she's not complaining.
'Our house is a zoo right now,†she laughs.
Barker and her husband and
Buffalo Wild Wings, a national chicken-wing restaurant and sports bar chain, plans to open its third Spokane-area outlet in the NorthTown Mall, predevelopment documents on file with the city of Spokane show.
The restaurant would face Queen Avenue, on the
Rite Aid Corp., the Camp Hill, Pa.-based pharmacy and retail store chain, has submitted a building permit application to construct a stand-alone store on the north end of the Franklin Park Commons shopping center, where it would move an existing outlet fr
Celeste Shaw spent much of her childhood on a farm near Wolf Point, a tiny town in northeastern Montana. From an early age, she says, she was torn between being out with the cowboys where the action was, and being inside with the women, whose job it was t
The so-called farm-to-table food movement seems to have taken hold across the country as well as here in Spokane. Plentiful fresh local produce and other food can be purchased from a number of neighborhood farmers' markets, and served the same night. Bu
Reflecting the recent strength of the auto industry nationally, Medford, Ore.-based Lithia Motors, Inc., which operates four dealerships in the greater Spokane area, says it had the highest adjusted net income in its history in the second quarter.
It rep