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Bartell Drugs was founded in 1890 when George H. Bartell Sr. (1868–1956) purchased the Lake Washington Pharmacy at 2711 South Jackson Street in Seattle's Central District. [3] Within eight years a second store was opened in 1898 in Downtown Seattle at 506 Second Ave.
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G.O. Guy was a small chain of drugstores located in the Seattle area of the U.S. state of Washington. The chain was founded in 1888 by George Omar Guy. Throughout the early 20th century, G.O. Guy's was the second largest drug store chain in Seattle behind Bartell Drugs and predated it by two years.
Bartell’s, as everybody calls it in Seattle, was passed down from father to son to grandchildren over 130 years before the Bartell family sold it to Rite Aid in 2020. By then, the business had ...
Over the years, Pay 'n Save was the leading drugstore chain in Washington and was the owner of several Washington-based retailers, including Lamonts and Ernst. A 1984 sale of the company to the Trump Group and a 1986 attempt to transform the retailer into a bargain-basement merchandiser resulted in a loss of nearly $50 million.
Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc. was a pharmacy holding company that owned the Thrifty Drugs and PayLess Drug Stores chains in the western United States. The combined company was formed in April 1994 when Los Angeles–based TCH Corporation, the parent company of Thrifty Corporation and Thrifty Drug Stores, Inc., acquired the Kmart subsidiary PayLess Drug Stores Northwest, Inc. [1] At the time ...
In October 2020, Rite Aid announced the acquisition of the privately held Bartell Drugs, a 67-location Seattle-area chain, for $95 million. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] Some customers have criticized the acquisition with reports of heavy staff turnover and computer system glitches.
The warrants led to the arrests of 12 people, two of whom were federally indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Washington in Seattle.