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3 years on, dry cleaners in Worcester still struggling from pandemic changes

[telegram.com – 2023.02.02] When office work took an unexpected change of direction in 2020, from in-person to remote, dry-cleaning businesses in the city saw an unintended consequence that continues to affect them to this day. William Chun, owner of JC Dry Cleaners on Grafton Street, said people in his line of business lost a lot […]

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Dry Cleaners Were Disappearing Even Before the Pandemic

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Starched shirts just don’t have the same appeal they once did. But there are forces greater than the virus at work here. [Bloomberg.com – 2022.09.12] The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent wholesale move to working from home have been tough on dry cleaners and professional laundries in the US. So has the 21st century. The number

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Joe Pisani (opinion): Dry cleaners deserve the shirts off our backs

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[stamfordadvocate.com – 2022.06.09] We got an urgent call last week. Most of our urgent calls come at 2 a.m. when I’m asleep, cavorting in dreamland and doing things I can’t do in real life … until the phone rings, bringing me back to boring reality. When I pick up the receiver, I expect the worst

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U.S. no longer in ‘full-blown’ pandemic phase, Fauci says

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[washingtonpost.com – 2022.04.27] The United States is finally “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase” that has led to nearly 1 million deaths from covid-19 and more than two years of suffering and hardship, Anthony S. Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said Wednesday. “We’re really in a transitional phase, from a deceleration of the

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Dry cleaners are beginning to close as the pandemic drags on

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[washingtonpost.com – 2022.02.22] The first to go in the neighborhood was GQ Cleaners, where the “For Rent” sign quickly replaced any semblance of life inside the blue-walled shop. Next was Kim’s Cleaners, now an empty sliver of a strip mall up the street. Gary and Chong Whitesides had for the past three decades run a

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Christmas Eve marks the end of Farmers Dry Cleaners

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[paducasun.com – 2021.12.11] On Christmas Eve, Farmers Dry Cleaners, this city’s only remaining dry cleaning business, is shutting down operations. Sharon and Keith Sigler, of Princeton, own the business at 116 E Market St. They said they decided to shut it down after COVID-19 pandemic conditions took a toll on operations and staff’s well-being. They

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pandemic

3 years on, dry cleaners in Worcester still struggling from pandemic changes

Dry Cleaners Were Disappearing Even Before the Pandemic

Joe Pisani (opinion): Dry cleaners deserve the shirts off our backs

U.S. no longer in ‘full-blown’ pandemic phase, Fauci says

Dry cleaners are beginning to close as the pandemic drags on

Christmas Eve marks the end of Farmers Dry Cleaners

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