Laundry Stores Create New Growth Opportunities with Pet Item Cleaning Services

The popularity of pet keeping promotes the boom in “pet economy”. Modern families see pets as their family members. The refined pet-keeping lifestyles become popular. This promotes the upgrade of home cleaning expenses. Small and medium-sized laundry stores in communities also open new growth opportunities. 

In the past, laundry stores depended on the revenue from daily garment laundry and care. The laundry industry fiercely competes on services. This causes the decline in off-season foot traffic. Nowadays, pet keeping families have brought high care demands for large bedding, soft furnishing, and pet items. This breaks the store profit limits. These demands have become a core growth point for community laundry stores. It helps them stand out from other competitors and increase per-ticket sales.

Kingstar focuses on the R&D of commercial and industrial washers and dryers. This article is based on a large amount of its cooperation experience with global laundry stores. It will introduce how laundry stores can seize pet economy benefits to upgrade from three aspects: market demands, business layout, and equipment selection.

Market Demands

Pet-keeping groups continue to grow. The pain points of home cleaning appear. Cats and dogs lose hair seasonally. Pet hair spreads over garments, bedding, curtains, carpets, and sofa cover fibers. Household washers fail to remove hidden pet hair. Pet dirt from the outside, dander, and saliva residue cause bacteria and mite growth. Pet beds and cushions, leashes, and blankets get damp and develop stubborn odors. Simple home cleaning and hand washing can only remove the surface stains. They fail to achieve deep disinfection and odor removal.

Modern consumers have different consumption concepts. They advocate “Expense saves worry and brings health”. They are not willing to spend a lot of time washing large textile items. Professional outsourcing of laundry becomes a necessity. This directly drives the boom of the community laundry business.

Business Layout

From the view of industry trends, the traditional and single garment care model is phasing out. The one-stop comprehensive service, “garment laundry + bedding & soft furnishing care + pet item cleaning”, has become mainstream in the development of modern laundry stores. Catering and popular online retailing are easily affected by markets. Community laundry services meet essential laundry needs. It has the risk-resistance, ensuring stable business operations. 

In the post-pandemic era, people pay more attention to health and cleanliness. Deep cleaning, disinfection, and mite removal have become key criteria for choosing care services. Pet-keeping families bring new orders. This effectively fills laundry gaps during the off-season. It also solves issues that store revenue is inconsistent and different between the peak season and off season.

The care demands of pet-keeping clients focus on the following four dimensions:

- Time-saving & efficient: one-stop solution for all types of textile items; 

- Deep cleaning: thoroughly remove the hidden pet hair, odor, and microorganisms;

- Care safety: gentle and non-residue chemicals for mothers and babies and sensitive environments;

- Large item cleaning: easily handle heavy items, including curtains, thick carpets, and large pet beds/cushions.

Home laundry equipment fails to meet the above demands. However, professional laundry stores have natural advantages. Many traditional laundry stores seize opportunities. Based on the original garment care, they extend many specialty care services, such as bedding, curtains, sofa covers, carpets, pet cushions/blankets, and pet clothes. This makes per-ticket sales multiply. Laundry stores get out of low-price competitions.

Equipment Selection

Professional laundry equipment is the basis of pet item cleaning. It is also a key to service quality. Kingstar commercial washers and dryers are designed for diverse laundry demands. Large-capacity drums handle heavy carpets and large pet cushions. Pet hair removal, water circulation, and high-temperature sanitizing programs help deliver a better cleaning performance. Water flow removes hidden pet hair from fabrics. Filters captures lint and pet hair. This prevents drain blockage. Machines also support multi-stage temperature control and drying. This ensures high-temperature disinfection and mite and pet odor removal. Meanwhile, the equipment can adjust temperatures according to different fabrics (silk, wool, cotton, and linen). This prevents large-item textiles from shrinkage and deformation. 

Without multiple machines, a Kingstar commercial laundry equipment unit can meet the care demands of daily garments, soft furnishings, and pet items. It helps reduce investment costs and maximize equipment capacity.

Relying on equipment advantages, laundry stores offer pickup and delivery and member-based services. They can support the surrounding pet-keeping residents. Kingstar sees empowering small and medium-sized laundry stores as its brand idea. Besides a full series of commercial laundry equipment, it offers pet item cleaning guidance for cooperative partners. It helps stores quickly establish standardized care processes. Therefore, stores make full use of high-quality services and pet item cleaning business. They can expand their revenue streams, as well as achieve stable off-season revenue and high profit during peak season.

Q&A

Q1: Is there sufficient market demand for small and medium-sized laundry stores to add pet item cleaning services?

A1: This demand is consistent and large. The pet economy continues to grow. Pet-keeping families have needs for removing hair and odors. This can effectively fill off-season order gaps. It also increases the entire profit of stores. 

Q2: Can Kingstar laundry equipment handle clothes, carpets, and pet beds/cushions?

A2: Yes. Kingstar commercial washers feature a large-volume design and multi-program choices. A machine can handle clothes, large home textiles, and pet items.

Q3: Does a new community laundry store focus on common laundry service or pet item cleaning?

A3: Common laundry service is the basis. Meanwhile, the store can consider pet item and textile care services. This helps create competitive advantages, attracting local pet keeping customers.