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Turnaround

What's your turnaround time?

Why's your turnaround time 5 days? Why don't you operate like ordinary cleaners?

What's your turnaround time?

Our normal turnaround time is one week on regular drycleaning, shirt laundry and household textiles.

Here's an example: if you drop off your cleaning at our fabricare facility on a Monday, your order will be ready for pickup on the following Monday.

If you're a pickup and delivery client with a once a week pickup/delivery schedule, say every Monday, we'll pick up on a Monday and deliver the following Monday.

If you're a pickup and delivery client with a twice a week pickup/delivery schedule, say Monday/Thursday, we'll pickup and deliver twice a week. Monday's pickup will be delivered on the following Monday; Thursday's pickup on the following Thursday.

Generally, one week.

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Why's your turnaround time 7 days? Why don't you operate like ordinary cleaners?

Why can't you drop off your cleaning on a Monday by 9:00 and pick it up that same day at 5:00? Or at the latest by 5:00 on the following day? Why can't we pick up your cleaning on day 1 (say a Monday) and deliver it on day 3 (say a Thursday)? And pick up your cleaning on day 1 (say a Thursday) and deliver on day 4 (say a Monday)?

Because we don't -- and won't -- produce what drycleaning industry experts call "bang and hang cleaning" or "ordinary cleaning."

Bang and hang cleaning or ordinary cleaning essentially involves tossing your cleaning into a machine, banging it out on a press, stuffing it in a bag, and cramming it onto a conveyor/holding rack or shuttling it out the door. Believe it or not, this is standard operating procedure at the vast majority of ordinary cleaners, including those offering pickup and delivery service.

If you don't believe this scenario, examine, for example, what happens to your cleaning that's picked up on a Thursday and delivered on a Monday by ordinary cleaners.

In all probability, those articles are "tagged" on Thursday evening or Friday morning. "Cleaned", "pressed" and "bagged" on Friday. This way they're "right and ready" to be delivered on Monday. (The same principle applies to cleaning picked up on a Friday and delivered on a Tuesday.)

Just think about that for a second. That's nothing less than same day, or at the very best, next day service!

Given this scenario, would you knowingly subject your fine garments -- especially your designer, high fashion, specialty and couture garments -- to same day or next day service cleaning?

Of course not!

So here's our dilemma: we can either focus all our resources on consistently producing the finest cleaning in Arizona, or we can deliver the same bang and hang cleaning offered by over four hundred ordinary cleaners in the Valley.

In a hectic world of same day and next day service cleaning, you can take comfort in the fact that we take the time to do it right. Because when it comes to caring for your fine garments and household textiles, faster isn't better. Never has been. Never will be.

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