Member Spotlight: Lab-Tested, Laundry-Approved

How Laundry Labs Plans to Change the Industry In today’s business world, efficiency and quality are paramount – and the commercial laundry industry is no exception. Recognizing the need for superior cleaning solutions specifically tailored to laundromat operators,...

Wash-Dry-Fold POS Launches New Feature

Wash-Dry-Fold POS® has announced its new Attendant Checklist Feature. According to Managing Partner Ian Gollahon, it is a simple but integrated tool that is so powerful, it’ll make you wonder how you ever ran your business without it. "You can monitor the checklist...

LaundroLab Celebrates National Laundry Day – April 15

LaundroLab to Offer Free Laundry, Resources Nationwide for National Laundry Day In celebration of National Laundry Day on April 15, 2025, LaundroLab—an innovative laundromat brand focused on reimagining the wash experience—is giving back to local communities by...

I’d Like to Speak to the Manager

On the Front Lines with Some of the Laundry Industry’s Leading Store Managers In an industry once dominated by unattended, self-service operations, the role of store managers in laundromats has never been more critical. As laundries evolve into full-service businesses...

PlanetLaundry Podcast

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Get the Conversation Started

3 Customer-Engagement Tips Designed to Boost Your Store's Digital Marketing Success Economies rise and fall – and, thus, businesses have to weather the good and the bad. At this point, the most recent economic downturn is a few years behind us, but that period brought...

Business Bio: In & Out Laundromat

Jack and Mary Lanning In & Out Laundromat Lowell, Mass. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Jack was a manufacturer's sales representative while also managing his parents' tax services business. Mary is a stay-at-home mom. Store Opening December 2015...

Growing Pains

HR Management Technology Tips to Help You Survive Your Business' Growth So, you own a self-service laundry that is either partially attended or fully attended, meaning that for some significant portion of the day for which your store is open to the public you have...

Headlines

Continental Names Sales and Product Engineer

Continental Girbau Inc. has named Sergi Obiols of Vic, Spain, as its new sales and product engineer. In this role, Obiols will provide technical sales support for Girbau Industrial laundry equipment projects throughout North America. Most recently, he was part of the...

Excellence ’18: ‘Renewed, Revitalized, Reimagined’

Excellence in Laundry Host Ups Its Game, As Conference Attendees Look To Do the Same Closed to guests since Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc across southwest Florida last September, the Naples Grande Beach Resort – which will host the Coin Laundry Association's upcoming...

Laundry Pro Announces Annual Expo and Open House

Laundry Pro of Florida will hold its annual Vended Laundry Expo and Open House on February 28 in Lakeland, Fla. This year's theme is "Come Buy with Me"- a play on words borrowed from the Frank Sinatra classic, "Come Fly with Me." As a result, the aeronautically themed...

Remember Excellence in Ojai?

Two years ago, nearly 200 of the nation's leading laundry owners and industry executives joined their peers for two days of networking and progressive educational sessions – all set amidst the tranquil beauty of Ojai, Calif. On May 18, 2016, Coin Laundry Association...

Building on Past Success… Exceeding Our Potential

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2018!I consider it an honor and a privilege to be serving as the Chairman of the Board for the Coin Laundry Association this year. Last year was historic for the CLA, as last year's chairman, Jim Whitmore, oversaw the introduction of new...

Wash with Wally: Bleach Spots, Motor Oil Stains…

A few of my drop-off customers are complaining about small bleach spots on their clothes. However, we don't even use bleach on their clothes, nor do we place the garments where bleach could be splashed on them. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the bleach is...

WashClub Offers ‘White Label’ Software with No Upfront Costs

On-demand laundry and drycleaning service provider WashClub has announced that it will license WashClubTrak - the company's pickup and delivery software in the U.S. - to vended laundry and drycleaning operators at no upfront cost. This will enable store owners to have...

Is It Time to Retool?

Ensuring You Reap the Rewards of Your Laundry's Recent Refresh[This is the third of a three-part series examining the key factors to consider when retooling a self-service laundry.]All of the homework is done. You have selected the best distributor partner and...

Collection Day

Laundry Owners Share Their Payment Options – Along with Their Subsequent Collection Procedures and StrategiesWithout a doubt, it's one of the first and probably most common pieces of advice a newcomer to the vended laundry industry will receive:"This business isn't...

Making Connections, Part 3

The Basics of Setting Up a Secure, Successful Wireless Network at Your Laundry Business[This is the third in a series of articles written to offer helpful suggestions about where to begin and how to better manage an existing or planned Wi-Fi network. Among the topics...

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This Month's Issue

 

  • ‘I’d Like to Speak to the Manager’: On the Front Lines with Some of the Laundry Industry’s Leading Store Managers
  • Business Management: Generate Additional Income Through Greater Market Penetration
  • Company Close-Up: Western State Design Has Been Helping Laundry Owners Thrive for More Than 50 Years
  • New Member Spotlight: How Laundry Labs Plans to Change the Industry
  • And More…

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Industry News

U.S. Mint Reacts to Coin Shortage, Asks for Consumers’ Help

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the disruption of the supply channels of circulating coinage – the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that the U.S. businesses and consumers use in their day-to-day transactions. “In normal circumstances, retail...

Sav-A-Day Announces Fall Open House

Sav-A-Day Laundry Machinery, headquartered in St. Louis, will hold its 61st annual open house sales event on October 12. The open house – scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. – will feature service schools throughout the day on washer-extractors and dryers. In...

Speed Queen Expands Hermes’ Sales Territory

Speed Queen has expanded the territory that is served by Hermes Commercial Laundry Equipment, headquartered in Bloomington, Ill. The distributor now serves customers in the Illinois counties of Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Grundy, Jo Daviess, La Salle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam,...

Laundrylux Partners with Coin-O-Matic

Laundrylux recently announced a new distributor relationship with Coin-O-Matic – headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Alsip, Ill., and celebrating a century in business. “We’re excited to honor our 100-year anniversary in the laundry industry by providing a...

SLE Holds Sales Meetings, Honors Top Performers

Statewide Laundry Equipment – with locations in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and Georgia – recently held all-day meetings for the company’s executive and sales teams at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Attendees were led through a recap of the...

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Originally posted - May 29, 2012 A fellow hands me a bag containing six marbles - five of the marbles of white and one is black - and he asks me to blindly draw a marble from the bag. If it's white, he says he'll pay me $20; however, if the marble is black, I must pay...

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Wash With Wally

Wash with Wally: Pricing Large Drop-Off Items

Originally posted - Nov 30, 2012 We are trying to set our wash-dry-fold pricing and have noticed a big difference in how large items are priced. In our area, drycleaners and laundromats with wash-dry-fold services charge a per item fee for comforters, bedspreads,...

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