OXXO Care Cleaners has revolutionized the dry cleaning industry. Offering a 24/7 ATM style machine, it allows customers to pickup or drop off clothes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week while keeping regular business hours.
Their technology is state of the art allowing greater profitability to their franchise owners.
It brings a successful venture from Europe that sets us apart form the competition. Convenience is the key and customers are lining up in droves to experience this revolutionary garment care. Request free information.
Joe D. on September 26th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Unfortunately OXXO is too worried about “the looks”. They want to be seen as eco friendly. They say that so you feel better about dry cleaning your clothes.
Yes, they don’t use the bad chemicals, but that’s it. They don’t recycle plastic, hangers, they don’t use less plastic, shop requires a 300 amp connection, they have a skyrocket electricity bill, etc. They just do enough to fool you.
Franchisees are not happy as most of their shops are in South Florida and the majority of them are for sale. Why most of the francisees want to sell? Are they tired of making money and want to give the opportunity to somebody else?
Bill on October 1st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
The poetically named GreenEarth method, used at OXXO Care Cleaners locations, uses G5, a form of liquid silicone. Although it is nontoxic and breaks down to what essentially amounts to sand, a Dow Corning study found that constant exposure to silicone-saturated air caused cancer in female lab rats. The Silicones Environmental, Health and Safety Council, an industry group, says that the studies aren’t applicable to humans and that the compound is safe. However, G5’s production requires chlorine, which can produce dioxin, a pollutant.
The greenest cleaning methods are wet cleaning and a process using liquid carbon dioxide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702759.html
Jon on October 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
It’s not an easy business for a start-up, asserts Jon Meijer, vice president of membership for the International Fabricare Institute, based in Silver Spring, Md., the leading trade group for dry-cleaners. These business owners cope with long hours and slim margins. People don’t wear fancy dry-clean-only clothes as much as they did in decades past, which has hurt sales. Moreover, there are about 32,000 dry-cleaners in the U.S., he points out. “There’s too much competition,” he says. “It’s that simple.”
R Palmer on October 9th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
really not a good period to risk your money indeed.
zane a. on March 4th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
This is absolutely the worst dry cleaner I have ever used… and this is coming from an ex-New Yorker.
Every possible thing that could ever go wrong with a dry cleaner has happened to me with this place.
First of all, I constantly have to leave notes with my clothing when I drop it off asking them to do heavy starch on my shirts because despite the fact that I have asked countless times for them to note that preference on my account I still get my shirts back without any starch. Furthermore, they very frequently send dress pants back with the CENTER CREASE IN THE PANTS IRONED OUT! Who in the world would ever do such a thing? I’ve never in ten years had a dry cleaner make this mistake once, let alone repeatedly.
Their little automatic retrieval device is handy, but it would be a LOT more handy IF IT EVER WORKED. On five separate occasions now I’ve gone to retrieve my clothing and could not because the machine wasn’t working. The “Tech Support” people at OXXO won’t help you with this location either. Instead they tell you to call the owner, who’s cell phone is always conveniently off. Why is the Tech Support number even listed on this location if they can’t support it???
I’ve also had repeated incidents of lost clothing as well as getting other people’s clothing (either some or altogether).
My partner manages a gym and frequently gets grease and other stains on his work khaki’s. OXXO has never failed once to make the stains worse and spread them around. Unbelievable.
OXXO is a nightmare and the owner and franchiser both refuse to do anything to make it better. I’ll never use this or any other OXXO location ever again