This story has been updated from its original version to correct the distance between Columbia Bank and Umpqua Bank in Pullman.
One customer at Mattress Firm in Moscow recently visited four times, laying on many of the 45 mattresses in the store before making a final decision about what to buy.
Like many shoppers at the recently opened store at Palouse Mall in Moscow, he was stressed, said Kristi Lowry, the store’s floor manager.
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