Car wash closure creates confusion
The owner of two Spokane car washes wants to make sure people don’t confuse his business with one that just closed its doors.
Jeff Cushman, who owns two Inside-n-Out car washes, said some customers of Kar-Brite Hand Wash and Auto Glass have tried to use that business’s coupons at his two sites.
Cushman bought two of the four Kar-Brite sites from Kar-Brite’s owner last year. The two remaining Kar-Brite locations closed two weeks ago with no explanation.
That’s left dozens of area Kar-Brite customers annoyed at having pre-purchased Kar-Brite car wash or gas discount cards that they can’t use, said Cushman.
Cushman’s two sites are at 324 W. Francis and 9412 N. Newport Highway.
Adding to the confusion, some Spokane phone books were printed this year without changing the Francis site to his business’s name, he said.
Spokane
Windermere has new offices
Windermere Real Estate has opened two new offices in the region, one in Liberty Lake and the other in Spokane Valley.
Cate Moye is the broker and owner of the Liberty Lake office, located at 1429 N. Liberty Lake Dr. Moye also owns Windermere Valley. Stu VanZyverden will manage the new office.
The other new office, Windermere/Mullan, is located at 1420 N. Mullan St. Ron Criscione is broker and sales manager at that office, which is co-owned by Steve Hildahl, Claudia Hildahl, Joseph Nichols and Fritz Nichols.
Windermere now has seven offices in Spokane.
Spokane
Jewelry store making hot offer
Kantor Diamond Co.’s Spokane store is sponsoring a promotion with some heat: If the temperature hits 100 degrees on the Fourth of July, the company will refund the price of jewelry bought this month.
Jay Kantor, co-owner of the Rancho Mirage, Calif.-based chain, said Spokane is the first place Kantor Diamond will test the promotion. The company also has stores in Tacoma, Kennewick, and Redding, Calif.
“Spokane tends to have more extreme weather than any of our other locations,” Kantor said.
The company got the idea from other jewelry stores, he said. Clark’s Diamond Jewelers in Coeur d’Alene runs a similar promotion involving snow at the holidays, for example.
Kantor Diamond bought an insurance policy designed for that kind of marketing tool in case it has to refund the money, Kantor said.
Washington
Delta pension deal approved
A bankruptcy judge Wednesday approved the $280-million-a-year concessions agreement between Delta Air Lines Inc. and its pilots, rejecting claims by the government’s pension insurer that it should receive the compensation the pilots were promised if their pension is terminated.
The decision came hours after rank-and-file pilots gave their nod to the deal. The agreement will take effect today.