Business briefs: Bartell Drugs to open in Mill Creek on Monday
Published 1:38 pm Friday, August 20, 2010
Bartell Drugs will open a new location in Mill Creek on Monday, its 56th store. The 14,960-square-foot-building is located at 18001 Bothell-Everett Highway and will offer a full-service pharmacy with a drive-though window, a broad selection of convenience foods and health products, and a digital photo kiosk and a broader selection of cameras and electronics, one-hour photo finishing and a passport photo center. The store will employ 19. It’s the second store the Seattle-based chain has opened in Snohomish County within a month. On July 20 it opened a new location in Lynnwood.
FCC examines iPhone block
Apple Inc. told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important functions on the device — yet Apple denied that it has rejected Google’s application outright. “Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it,” Apple said. The FCC is looking into Apple’s block on the Google Voice app as part of a bigger examination of the consumer implications of practices in the wireless industry. It sent questions to Apple, Google and AT&T Inc., the only wireless carrier to offer the iPhone in the U.S.
Crown Image facility sold to McGraw LLC
McGraw Development acquired the Crown Image building at 3231 Broadway in Everett for $2.4 million, the CoStar Group reported. The building includes 3,000 square feet of retail space and 18,000 square feet of office space.
Lowe’s settles harassment case
Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse Inc. has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a sexual harassment case brought by three employees in Longview, including one who said she was sexually assaulted in 2006. Under the three-year consent decree signed Thursday by U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, Lowe’s also must revise policies on discrimination, harassment and retaliation; provide training on those concerns to employees at the company’s 37 stores in Washington state and 13 stores in Oregon.
Southwest Airlines to offer Wi-Fi
Southwest Airlines is on its way to providing in-flight Wi-Fi access on all of its aircraft. The airlines and Internet Wi-Fi service provider Row 44 have plans to roll out the program in the first quarter of 2010. Southwest has been testing the service on four aircraft since February 2009. Customers have been using the service for many applications during the testing phase, including e-mail and streaming video. Southwest has tested a variety of price points for the service and will continue testing price points through the end of 2009.
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