‘Heart-breaking decision.’ After 100 years, Tri-Cities store is closing

One of the Tri-Cities’ oldest businesses is ending 100 years of sales and service to farmers and homeowners Monday. On Sunday fourth-generation owner Chris Ingersoll said that Farmers Exchange, a farm and garden store in downtown Kennewick, Wash., has “faced increasingly difficult economic conditions.” “After careful consideration, we have made the heartbreaking decision to close our doors,” he said in an announcement. The store at 215 W. Canal Drive opened in 1924, originally serving mostly farmers. But in recent years many of its customers are homeowners coming to the store...