Professional Carwashing & Detailing - Feb 2012
CONSUTLANTS CORNER A West Coast perspective on flex serves vs unions By Chris McKenna Contributing Writer 62 Professional Carwashing Detailing February 2012 low partially due to less than legal labor practices by unscrupulous operators having prices make that kind of jump in the market as a whole will start the clock ticking on the end of the dominate full service model The question for us now is can or will the consumer support this increase in pricing for the full service carwash Presenting one mans opinion on how unions are impacting the carwashing industry consumer Soon to be long gone are the days of the 799 special or even the 1499 basic Instead what you will start to see in the not so distant future is a basic full serve wash priced at 2999 or higher in some areas Will higher prices lower car counts While I agree that in some cases prices in various markets have been artificially W ell happy February everyone and here we are well into 2012 Im sure by now you all are aware of the newest trend in full service carwashing unions For those of you who dont know as of late 2011 a carwash in Santa Monica CA was officially unionized I am not talking about a locally sponsored union like the culinary workers union or even an offshoot such as the carpenters union Nope Im talking about the big boys The steelworkers union s out of Pennsylvania These guys are very politically connected at the national level And while steelworkers in our country have decided that unions are acceptable it simply will not translate to a better product or service for the carwash
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