I have heard that there will be no car wash topic or presentation at the NACS Show this year. If true, it is not a good omen for our industry. In my area many C-store/gas station washes have closed. Not many new sites are building washes. This may be a sign for the future of car washing in this industry.
Whether you like the fact that some C-stores/gas stations have car washes or not they do provide more exposure to the motoring public to car washing and serve to introduce it to many who may not have gone to a free standing facility. If the C-store/gas station industry is beginning to pull away from car washing it is not good news to the manufacturers of equipment, chemicals and other supplies that depend on sales to this industry. This could be a rather bad development for the car wash industry as a whole.
Whether you like the fact that some C-stores/gas stations have car washes or not they do provide more exposure to the motoring public to car washing and serve to introduce it to many who may not have gone to a free standing facility. If the C-store/gas station industry is beginning to pull away from car washing it is not good news to the manufacturers of equipment, chemicals and other supplies that depend on sales to this industry. This could be a rather bad development for the car wash industry as a whole.