Leading UK fuel retailer MPK Garages has installed laundry machines at four of its 28 sites, with another 10 or 12 identified as possible future locations.
The Leicester-based operator is the second major industry player in the past few weeks to announce self-service laundry as a future business opportunity. It follows the news that MFG plans to install washers and driers at up to 300 of its 1,200-plus sites in the next five years.
MPK Garages’ retail director Wayne Harrand says that its forecourts with a local family demographic or those in rural areas are likely to have most demand for a laundry service, and initial reaction has been good since the initial Wash.Me units were installed in July.
“We will roll out the machines to other sites in communities where there are lots of families or in rural locations with equestrian businesses, with customers using them to wash horse blankets and pet beds, too bulky for domestic appliances,” said Wayne.
The three in one units, owned and operated by ME Group and on a commission agreement, have a 20kg washer and drier, and a smaller 9kg washer.
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