Yoke's Foods Inc., of Spokane Valley, has purchased the recently shuttered Haggen grocery store at 1233 N. Liberty Lake Road, in Liberty Lake. A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved the sale Nov. 24 as part of the sale of a large block of Haggen stores, incl

Following the Nov. 17 windstorm that rocked the Spokane area, many Inland Northwest businesses found themselves struggling in different ways. Those with power, and even some of those without, strived to stay open, both in an effort to help customers and t

The National Retail Federation is predicting holiday spending will be comparable to last year, with national retail sales increasing by 3.7 percent this year to $630.5 billion. Retailers here agree with those predictions, saying they too anticipate strong

The owner of Store Fixtures R Us, which supplies fixtures, displays, and other related items to retail stores, says he plans to close the 25-year-old East Spokane store by the end of this month, after already having shuttered sister plastic-fabrication c

This is how old Kershaw's Inc. is: The downtown Spokane office-supply company was 8 years old when the Chicago Cubs won their last World Series in 1908. When Frederick Kershaw founded Western Typewriter in 1900, the U.S. population was 75 million, less