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Meeting Families Where They Are: The Powerful Role of Laundromats
Please take a moment to picture the face of a child you care about. This child may be your own son or daughter, a niece or nephew, grandchild, a youth you may have coached, or a little one who runs into your laundromat with her mom each week. I think of my own two...
Upgrading Your Laundromat
Five Steps to a Successful Retooling Project Since opening my first laundromat – O-Town Laundry in Salt Lake City – approximately five years ago, I’ve retooled three more stores, am currently building two stores and have three more waiting in the wings. Working with...
Industry Roundtable: Maximizing the Dry
Leading Manufacturers Weigh In on the Current State of the Vended Laundry Dryer – And Its Impact on Today’s Laundry Owners and Customers What’s really new with dryers and drying? Dryers and the very act of drying clothes and other items, by definition, represent half...
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Health and Wellness Tips from CLA’s Health Insurance Provider
The Coin Laundry Association, in collaboration with LIG Solutions, offers various health insurance programs, including a new prescription drug benefit, for CLA members, as well as their families and employees. LIG wants you and your family to stay healthy this fall,...
Wash with Wally: Battling Bleach Stains
A few of my drop-off laundry customers have complained about small bleach spots on their clothes. However, we don’t 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...
CLA Releases 2021 Industry Survey
The Coin Laundry Association has announced the release of its annual Laundry Industry Survey. Each year, the CLA commissions Readex Inc. – a nationally recognized independent research company – to conduct an industrywide survey of laundromat owners. The data, in...
Don’t Stop Now!
Congratulations! Your laundromat survived 2020 and the first half of 2021 – a time during which an incredible number of brick-and-mortar retail businesses in the U.S. failed and simply disappeared. For all owners, the past year and a half has been historically...
Build a Site That Sells
The Keys to Designing an Emotionally Powerful – And, Ultimately, Successful – Website for Your Laundromat Many laundromat owners love to advertise. And several of these operators use their websites for that intended purpose. However, in my estimation, most of these...
Tumble Fresh Coin Laundries Voted ‘Minnesota’s Best’
The Star Tribune recently announced that Tumble Fresh Coin Laundries has been voted “Minnesota’s Best Laundromat,” based on the newspaper's readers poll of top businesses throughout the state. “More than 75 other laundromats were nominated within this category,”...
HappyNest Extends Northwest Expansion
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest recently announced that its offerings are now available in Tacoma, Wash., through the company’s new laundromat partner, Legacy Laundry. Located in Puyallup, Legacy Laundry was established in 2012 and serves...
Leverage Marketing’s Universal Strategies
Three Promotional Tactics That Work Anywhere… For Any Business International companies have a lot to teach us about marketing. They’ve mastered the art of grabbing an audience’s attention and selling a product or service – which is at the core of all marketing...
HappyNest Now Available in San Antonio
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded its availability into San Antonio, Texas, through the company’s new laundromat partner, High Spin Wash & Dry. “HappyNest has created a pickup-and-delivery service formula that works for its partners and...
FTC Retains Garment Care Label Rule
The Federal Care Label Rule recently avoided repeal, with the Federal Trade Commission voting 5-0 in favor of retaining the directive, according to a report in National Clothesline. The regulation was established in 1971, deeming it to be unfair or deceptive for...
Ozone Examined…
A Look at What Ozone Can Do for Your Laundry Business Since the COVID-19 outbreak, laundromat owners now more than ever have focused on creating safe, clean environments for their customers. As a result, ozone as a laundry additive has been gaining a lot of industry...
CCI, CleanCloud POS Integrate Company Offerings
Card Concepts Inc. and CleanCloud POS have announced a recent integration between the two companies to better serve the laundromat industry with regard to self-service payment, point of sale software and business management. “The updated integration between CleanCloud...
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This Month's Issue
- Fast Forward: Industry Insiders Review the Past Year – And Unveil the Key Factors That Likely Will Shape the Laundromat Business in 2025
- Business Profile: The Community-Driven Mission Behind Wash Bar Laundromats
- Company Close-Up: Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales Sets the Standard for Industry Excellence and Innovation
- Women in Vended Laundry: An Interview with Samantha Peters of Advanced Laundry Systems
- And More…
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Industry News
ACI Names Senior Manager of Public Health
The American Cleaning Institute, the trade association for the cleaning products supply chain, has appointed Audrey McCalley as senior manager, public health. “Audrey joins ACI with a background in public health, clinical research, policy and sustainability,” said Dr....
A Surprise Trend: ‘Inflation Relief’ Tax Policy
Rising inflation levels have hit consumers hard, and state lawmakers have spent time trying to provide relief, including indexing income tax brackets, issuing taxpayer rebates, and adopting new sales tax exemptions. Georgia, Idaho, Indiana (with an expansion of a...
COVID Relief Bill Introduced
Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Ben Cardin recently introduced legislation to create what’s being called the Hard-Hit Small Business Relief Fund (S.4471). For small businesses demonstrating substantial losses in 2020 and 2021 due...
ICYMI: New York City Repeals Retail Laundry License Requirement
On July 18, 2021, New York City enacted Local Law 80 of 2021, which repeals the licensing requirement for retail laundries. This repeal went into effect on December 31, 2021. Beginning last December, a retail laundry license from the city’s Department of Consumer...
Don’t Overlook Supply Chain Delays When Considering Section 179 Deductions
To be eligible for a 2022 Section 179 deduction, the eligible equipment must be purchased and put into service by midnight December 31, 2022. It’s not enough to merely buy the equipment. Given that, laundromat owners are reminded to keep the current supply chain...
FROM YOUR FAVORITE INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Columns
The Laundry Doctor
At Your Service
Originally posted - Jun 03, 2014 Last time, I discussed some of the questions you should ask your wash-dry-fold customers in order to best process their laundry. In this article, I'd like to take that customer service topic a bit further and talk about training your...
The Business Mind
Creating a Buzz
Here's a Look at the Advantages of Word of Mouth Advertising – And How Your Laundry Business Can Best Leverage ThemWay back, long before social media, the internet, television, radio, printing or even "business" itself (at least as we are familiar with it these days),...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Increasing Store Capacity, Removing Musty Odors, More…
I'm having trouble removing a musty odor from some of my drop-off customers' garments. What's the problem, and more importantly what's the solution? Most likely, the problem is with the materials that are being used by the garment manufacturers. Today, most cotton...
Viewpoint
Investing in Customer Service Yields Real Value
"The customer is always right." - Marshall Field When I cite the quote above about the customer always being right, you might be quick to caution "you haven't been to my laundromat!"Well, I see this well-worn adage as aspirational, if not requiring some suspension of...
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