Laundry Trucks, Supermarket Laundry, and Tik Tok Famous| Laundromat News Today | April 18, 2026 — Transcript

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1. 0:01Welcome to Laundromat News today. I am
2. 0:05my mom's favorite Laundromat News
3. 0:07anchor, Jordan Berry, here with news
4. 0:09from around the world, all things
5. 0:11Laundromat related. We're going to kick
6. 0:14it off with a segment of our news called
7. 0:17spotlight on the industry. And let's
8. 0:20kick it off with Alliance Laundry
9. 0:21Holdings. Let's take a peek at what is
10. 0:23going on there. They've been making a
11. 0:27steady growth since the end of March.
12. 0:30Um they're up about 29 over a little
13. 0:34over 29% up to 25.19
14. 0:37as of reporting of this
15. 0:39per share. So, making a strong comeback
16. 0:42after a little bit of a lull for a
17. 0:44little while. So, keep an eye on that.
18. 0:47And also spotlight on the industry,
19. 0:49shout-out to Franchise Laundry Lab,
20. 0:51which is opening a new
21. 0:54Oklahoma City store with a free
22. 0:56community event.
23. 0:58Which is great. All right, let's move
24. 1:01over to a new segment called lessons
25. 1:03from laundromats.
26. 1:06Uh we'll kick this segment off with a
27. 1:08story that comes right out of my heart
28. 1:11and my home, Los Angeles. Chinatown
29. 1:15actually in Los Angeles has no
30. 1:16laundromats. So, somebody pulled up with
31. 1:21a laundry truck into Chinatown to help
32. 1:25people do their laundry. So, shout-out
33. 1:28to the ingenuity out there in Chinatown.
34. 1:31Something to keep in mind, always
35. 1:32looking for opportunities. And again
36. 1:35from lessons in laundromats, I had to
37. 1:37mention this one. I try to avoid like
38. 1:40too much bad news. Um but this one was
39. 1:43just all over the place. Um an ATM was
40. 1:46stolen from a laundromat after a U-Haul
41. 1:48crashed into the shopping center
42. 1:51storefronts in Cobb County. So,
43. 1:54uh listen, I I don't really know what
44. 1:56the lesson is here other than uh maybe
45. 1:59get those metal poles in front of your
46. 2:00stores.
47. 2:02Uh but man, the lengths people go to.
48. 2:04I've had an ATM stolen. I've had stuff
49. 2:06stolen out of my stores and it's not
50. 2:08fun. So,
51. 2:09uh hey.
52. 2:10Mind your business, protect your
53. 2:11business, and uh yeah.
54. 2:14I guess that's the lesson to be learned.
55. 2:16All right, let's move over to a segment
56. 2:18called good news in the laundromat
57. 2:20industry and we'll kick that one off
58. 2:21with Jasmine Connolly who's an army
59. 2:23veteran that is providing laundry relief
60. 2:26in defiance uh particularly after a
61. 2:30tornado just struck there um and is
62. 2:33using her laundry facilities to uh help
63. 2:37provide laundry for people uh who
64. 2:40otherwise can't have clean clothes. And
65. 2:43uh there's there's a cool little video.
66. 2:44We've got a link to this and all these
67. 2:46stories. Make sure you're on our
68. 2:48newsletter at laundromatresource.com.
69. 2:50Go sign up over there to get links to
70. 2:52all these articles that'll be sent out.
71. 2:55Um but there's a video there where uh
72. 2:58they're interviewing some people who've
73. 3:00you know gone through this tornado and
74. 3:02are just feeling grateful for having a
75. 3:04laundry facility. So, again, I just want
76. 3:06to punctuate
77. 3:08we can make a real big difference.
78. 3:10Doesn't even have to be during the
79. 3:11disaster. Look for ways to use your
80. 3:14business for good like I know a lot of
81. 3:16you guys are. And by the way, if you are
82. 3:19doing something cool for your community
83. 3:20and you want it highlighted on the news,
84. 3:23uh don't be shy. Shoot us an email at
85. 3:25[email protected]
86. 3:27and we'll make sure we'll get it into a
87. 3:28future episode. Um okay.
88. 3:31Uh I want to spotlight some events
89. 3:33happening around the industry. Well,
90. 3:35I've got one uh today. But if you've got
91. 3:38an event out there or if you know of a
92. 3:40laundromat event happening out there,
93. 3:42big or small, local, global,
94. 3:44national, whatever, regional,
95. 3:47uh we want to spotlight them on here
96. 3:49just to get us together as an industry.
97. 3:52And uh I know there's an event happening
98. 3:54called the laund- uh Vended Laundry
99. 3:56Experience in uh I think it's in Austin.
100. 4:00Um yeah, it's in Austin and it's on San
101. 4:02Antonio Street. That's why I got
102. 4:04confused, but it's in Austin, Texas.
103. 4:06It's coming up on April 23rd, so make
104. 4:08sure you check that out, especially if
105. 4:10you're in that area. Um you can get down
106. 4:12there, meet some cool people. I believe
107. 4:15the Waleed Cope is going to be there.
108. 4:17So, listen, that's worth a trek even if
109. 4:20you're not in the area. Go hang out with
110. 4:22Waleed and some other laundromat
111. 4:24industry
112. 4:26uh aficionados.
113. 4:28Okay, uh we've got some international
114. 4:30news, so let's kick it out to a place I
115. 4:33just recently was at actually in
116. 4:36Singapore.
117. 4:37And uh just an interesting story out of
118. 4:40Singapore, Fresh Laundry in Singapore
119. 4:43was ranked number 37
120. 4:46among the fastest growing companies in
121. 4:48Singapore. So, listen, laundromats are
122. 4:51kind of a big deal and
123. 4:53uh
124. 4:54a big part of that is because of you
125. 4:56guys up in the game. So, continue to up
126. 4:58the game and continue to look for
127. 5:00opportunities. That's what what's going
128. 5:02to keep our industry improving, serving
129. 5:04our communities better, and you more
130. 5:07profitable. And uh I think
131. 5:10that's we want all three of those, I
132. 5:11think.
133. 5:12Um okay, we're keeping it international
134. 5:14here for a couple more stories. Let's
135. 5:16head over to London where um Asda, which
136. 5:20I believe is a supermark, I think it's
137. 5:22pronounced Asda and I apologize for any
138. 5:24of you uh Brits out there if I'm not
139. 5:27pronouncing it right, but um they have
140. 5:30uh just introduced 700 self-serve
141. 5:34laundry machines in their stores. Now,
142. 5:35what they what they have over there, and
143. 5:38I've seen this around in Europe
144. 5:40and a little bit in Asia, too. Um but
145. 5:42they have uh
146. 5:44essentially like uh panels of like, you
147. 5:46know, three to six washers and dryers
148. 5:50that'll sit in a parking lot or I've
149. 5:52seen them at like train stations, things
150. 5:54like that. And so these are basically
151. 5:57mini laundromats that they're putting up
152. 5:59in these
153. 6:00supermarkets. And we've we've talked
154. 6:02about this in the past before of other
155. 6:04people doing this, but they're doing it
156. 6:05at a bigger scale here.
157. 6:06700 machines that they're starting with
158. 6:09so that people can throw their laundry
159. 6:11in, go do their shopping, pick up their
160. 6:13laundry, and head home. All their chores
161. 6:15checked off their list. That really that
162. 6:19model really hasn't caught on here in
163. 6:20the US yet. But listen, if you're
164. 6:23interested in doing it, keep me posted.
165. 6:25I'd love to hear how it goes.
166. 6:27Okay, and one other international piece
167. 6:32of news that we have here is
168. 6:35um
169. 6:36in South Korea, they are introducing,
170. 6:41and this is kind of a good news /
171. 6:42international news, but they're
172. 6:44introducing a program to help
173. 6:47mental health and suicide prevention
174. 6:50through the local laundromats and
175. 6:52particularly unattended laundromats.
176. 6:54They're providing a lot of resources in
177. 6:56those spaces so that while people are
178. 6:59doing their laundry, they can do kind of
179. 7:01a mental health checkup and and get some
180. 7:04resources if they're struggling with
181. 7:06their mental health. So again, you know,
182. 7:07I know a lot of a lot of people out
183. 7:09there are struggling with mental health.
184. 7:12And
185. 7:13listen, there's lots of ways we can do
186. 7:14good. So shout out to South Korea for
187. 7:17utilizing laundromats to try to tackle
188. 7:19this issue.
189. 7:20And finally, a segment I like to call
190. 7:24laundromats in pop culture. I just
191. 7:27called it that right now, so that's what
192. 7:29I'm going to call it.
193. 7:31There is an article, an interesting
194. 7:33article. It's coming out of Australia,
195. 7:35but it's kind of an international
196. 7:37article talking about the gold coin rush
197. 7:41and how Tik Tok, and some of you guys
198. 7:43out there and your Tik Tok channels has
199. 7:46spun up this interest in laundromats and
200. 7:49how it the industry is booming and
201. 7:52demand for laundromats is booming. If
202. 7:53you're out there trying to buy your
203. 7:54first laundromat, you know what I'm
204. 7:56talking about. Demand for this industry
205. 7:59is booming and a big part of that's
206. 8:01because of social media. So, who would
207. 8:02ever thought that our little industry
208. 8:05would be, you know, Tik Tok famous? But,
209. 8:08here we are Tik Tok famous and some of
210. 8:10you guys in particular Tik Tok famous
211. 8:13and
212. 8:14kudos to you guys. So,
213. 8:16that's it for news around the industry
214. 8:19and around the world. We'll be back next
215. 8:21week with all the latest and greatest
216. 8:23articles. Again, if you have an event or
217. 8:26if you are doing something good in your
218. 8:28community through your laundromat or you
219. 8:30just have some news that you want
220. 8:32released out to the industry, big or
221. 8:34small, whether you're an individual
222. 8:36laundromat or you're a company serving
223. 8:38the industry, shoot us over,
224. 8:41you know, a press release or just an
225. 8:43email. It doesn't have to be formal.
226. 8:44[email protected].
227. 8:46We'd love to have you featured and get
228. 8:48the word out to cool stuff happening
229. 8:50around the world in our industry. All
230. 8:53right, we'll see you next week.