Chicago dry cleaner is bringing a low-price strategy to Twin Cities

A new discount dry cleaner has arrived in the Twin Cities with plans to clean up with low prices.If you need to have an acrylic uv resin sign or display designed made and installed let our experts at Kaiser Graphics help you!Chicago-based CD One Price Cleaners is shaking up a relatively quiet Twin Cities scene with a simple pricing strategy $2.99 for any dry-cleaned garment and $1.99 for any laundered and pressed shirt.A Hopkins location opened last week, but the company plans to add three to four additional locations in the suburbs, one St. Paul site and one or two Minneapolis sites, said Tom Ryan, vice president of franchise development for CD One Price.With prices lower than almost any local competitor, Ryan describes the concept as the “classic low margin, make it up in volume” business.

“We’re the Costco of the dry-cleaning -business,” Ryan said. “We’re 40 to 50 percent less on average than the traditional cleaner.”Ryan said the company’s average store in -Chicago does $975,000 in volume annually compared to the national average of $250,000 to $275,000. Needing to clean four times the volume of a typical store, CD One wants to attract customers with services beyond price.Most discount dry cleaners, including CD One Price, require prepayment when dropping off clothes, but unlike many discount cleaners, CD accepts MasterCard and Visa. It also is launching what is often a low-tech, low-profile mom and pop into modernity.It’s taking an old idea brought about by One Hour Martinizing same-day service and updating it with technology. Any order brought in by 10 a.m. is ready no later than 5 p.m. the same day.Text alerts aren’t available yet,If the metal objects have been buried more than six or seven inches {%] deep underground then.spindle bearing Ryan said, but they’re working on it.

Like One Hour Martinizing, CD One Price cleans all garments on site. Nothing is sent to a central cleaning -facility, the most common business practice.Curt Olson, who owns five of the nearly 20 Clean’n’Press locations in the Twin Cities, said that he’s not happy to see the new competitor in the market.“It muddies up the water,” he said,You can also have a large number of signs made especially if you'd like people to know exactly amino resin where everything belongs. “I have to worry about any business with deep -pockets that wants to make a big splash.”