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Article of the Week....

Every magazine, news source or piece of information available tells us how top load machines are a dying breed, but are they? All true energy star machines are front load machines, all laundry owners hate them, manufactures don’t want to produce them, and more important customers won’t miss them, right? I guess in theory that makes sense, unless you have ever been to a laundromat!

I don’t doubt that laundry owners hate them, manufactures won’t make them, and repairmen only replace them, I get that, I understand. But the real world, the normal laundries, the mom and pop locations, can they thrive without them?

Let’s look at the individuals who use the coin laundry in general. Most of the people who frequent coin laundries are people who don’t have their own machines and find it more convenient to use a coin laundry. Face it; turning our local coin laundry in to a thriving, robust, socially stimulating entertainment center on a Friday night may be a little difficult! So what are we left with? People who pay for convenience. This in a nutshell, is the nature of the industry.

So what do we do? Does the customer still dictate what equipment we use or do manufactures and distributors? Why do the manufactures still continue to lose money on developing top load machines and making them energy efficient? How can G.E. still not get it right?

I am the first one to promote energy conservation but I still have a top load washer in my home. Does that make me a hypocrite? I am sure to most it does, but 10 minutes into the cycle when I find a sock lying on the floor and can still throw it in, I feel pretty good about myself. One top of that I have never had a bad seal or molded clothes. Maybe I am just part of a dying breed.

Laundry owners who are fortunate enough to have the large stores with card machines, wireless internet, and $9.00 triple loaders will never worry about top load machines. Why should they? But to the average small business owner competing with the large market chains, generating only enough revenue to pay the bills, it may be a risky gamble switching to all front load machines. While the money they will save in water and energy conservation may be great, you have to take a look at the potential revenue loss.

Many small families visit their laundry once a week and are used to doing their laundry in the same top load machine for $1.00. I am sure to most this is not practical or hard to believe. Normally I would agree, but ask a distributor in Texas they may tell you the same thing. Owners still vending $1-$1.25, minority owned, and top load heavy. This is the majority of the market.

There are a lot of distributors out there who make their living solely on refurbishing top load washers and small dryers. This has been a practice for many years and I am sure to some degree will be for many to come. Going green is a great thing. We all care about our environment. But I think at some point self preservation always gets in the way of conservation. I think sometimes we get caught up in who makes the rules as opposed to just following them. There used to be an old adage saying “The customer is always right!” I think in more recent years it has changed and now reads “The customer does what he is told!” While this is unfortunate, it is a reality in some parts of our world.

While traveling to different states, visiting different locations in geographical and economically challenging locations I have seen many different things. One thing has always prevailed, the locations that thrive, top load heavy or not, still uses the words Ma’am and Sir, and still greet you with a smile. Maybe Top Load machines are just for apartments, hotels and for little laundries.

While the wave of the future is obviously in front load technology, don’t count out the little guy!

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We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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