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The Quiet Roll-Up of Independent Laundromats
Independent coin laundry owners have long operated as the ultimate small-business safety net: low overhead, steady demand, and zero reliance on complex supply chains. But a new wave of private equity firms is treating these neighborhood laundromats not as standalone community fixtures, but as standardized real-estate plays disguised as service businesses. We look at how a single acquisition group in the Midwest consolidated twelve locations in three years, replacing human attendants with app-based access and centralizing maintenance contracts to squeeze margin. The result? Higher efficiency…
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