Friday, May 12, 2023

Checking in on the recently lamented closing of Middleton Cleaners

 
Empty except for a fake plant

Photos by Retiring Guy





Original 10/18/2023 post, "Next Door laments the closing of Middleton Cleaners", starts here.

Photos by Retiring Guy



Original 10/1/2022 post starts here


Retiring Guy put in his 2 cents.

We stopped going there in the early 1990s. They had an antiquated drop-off/pick-up system, which didn't work if you happened to misplace or lose your ticket.. Hide-and-go-seek time. Moreover, the entrance area always looked as though it hadn't been vacuumed or dusted in years. Not a welcoming vibe. If you want to dig a little deeper, read this article.

Bloomberg, 9/12/2022
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent wholesale move to working from home have been tough on dry cleaners and professional laundries in the US. 
So has the 21st century. The number of business establishments offering “dry-cleaning and laundry services, except coin-operated” fell to 16,497 in the first quarter of 2022 from 18,756 in the last quarter of 2019, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, an annualized decline of nearly

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