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But if I can avoid buying a car because Uber, then number of washes goes down or is at least balanced.
In London at least, Uber is an alternative to public transport (and taxis obv), not to car ownership
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My local car was has a $20/month subscription for unlimited washes. These aren't exactly luxury services--they're priced similar to a Netflix plan. If you have a car, it's worth it if you value our time at all.
But if you value your time, why would you wash your car multiple times per month?
In my city you're not allowed to wash your car in your driveway I guess it's too hard on the storm drains to have soap and dirt and stuff going down them Or maybe city council is just in some kind of racket with car wash owners or something But either way, that's why we have so many car washes here... And it sucks ass
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I would have assumed its from the rise of gig workers using private cars. Uber/Lyft need to keep cars pretty clean to not be dinged stars, and even package and food delivery can create more mess which may require cleaning (but mostly taxi service I think). I skimmed the article and don’t see mention of that?
But if I can avoid buying a car because Uber, then number of washes goes down or is at least balanced.
The article doesn't mention it, but I read another article about car washes that argued they're used as a way to speculate on commercial real estate in cities because the car washes provide just enough revenue to pay for the purchase of the land and property taxes. Then when the land becomes valuable they can sell it to another developer.
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I wouldn’t think they would be especially cheap to build though? Sophisticated machinery, lots of plumbing?
I think there are companies that build/sell turnkey carwashes. I don't think it's very sophisticated to be honest. It's really just a couple of high pressure sprayers, some soap/foaming sprayers, and a track that pulls the car. It's all technology that's been available for decades. I bet there's a factory in China just pumping out car wash components.
I would have assumed its from the rise of gig workers using private cars. Uber/Lyft need to keep cars pretty clean to not be dinged stars, and even package and food delivery can create more mess which may require cleaning (but mostly taxi service I think). I skimmed the article and don’t see mention of that?
But if I can avoid buying a car because Uber, then number of washes goes down or is at least balanced.
In my city you're not allowed to wash your car in your driveway I guess it's too hard on the storm drains to have soap and dirt and stuff going down them Or maybe city council is just in some kind of racket with car wash owners or something But either way, that's why we have so many car washes here... And it sucks ass
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Year after Year, I kept thinking this was a fad and would crash. But years go by, and now they are calling it a 'boom'. 14 billion dollar market. For Car Washes? Isn't this an indicator that economy is fine, people are fine, since they can spend this type of money on car washes? How can something this worthless be booming, if people are struggling.
At 1 car every 14 minutes on average, a single bay will easily clear $1,000/day of revenue.
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But people don't have to pay cash, the "pretend people" pay cash.
If you pay with card there will be an electronic trace.
Granted, there are benefits to laundering money with literal cash, but you still want some legitimate money trail even if you don't actually hand over the claimed goods or services—enough at least to cover the actual expenses of the business, i'd presume.