Shopping Carts

onecallpowerw

New Member
I have the opportunity to wash and sanitize shopping carts at four locations for a well known food chain. The problem is that I do not have a clue as what to charge. I would prefer to charge per unit but do not have a clue. Anybody out there have an idea ?

This would be bi-annual contract.
 

ron

New Member
easy.
Do 24 cart's as a demo.
Then check your time,travel,fuel consumption,insurance cost's,any reclaim cost's,how meny day's it take's you to get the check,and add 10% to that for maint cost's.
Then ask yourself "would I pay that price to have them washed?"
If yes, then when you hand in your quote Show the item's ive listed. Dont just give a flip price.
When you show why you need to charge what you charge it's hard to argue the price. That dose'nt mean someone wont beat that price but you need to charge what you need to charge.
If anyone tell's you a price. Great, but it wont do you much good because their cost's and your cost's can be world's apart.
price is not a question. It's a mathmatic problem.
X+X+X+X+X+X=Y
only you know the % of each X.
Also the real money is in repairing the cart's not washing them.
Then you get your foot in the door for the sidewalk's, then the freezer's,then the window's.
Our biggest chain of store's FOODTOWN has just put together their own truck to wash all their store's.
Soon SHOPRITE will follow.
 

jeffex11

New Member
I had an idea for a business several years ago to add to my deck business called Property recovery services or something. The idea was to get a finders fee for rounding up shopping carts and returning them to the store. Part of my proposal for add on services was cart maintenance, cleaning and repair. I work 2 jobs now and never got it off the ground but I think I fiqured a $100 min. show up fee rather than a price per. I would allow 2man hours of work as a min. My intent was to stat a business that could provide more months of income.
 

Dan S

New Member
hey ONECALL I went to that "dorky" wal-mart store in search of the last Christmas gift.. And there was this guy outside cleaning all the carts .He had a huge box-van and inside was a work bench....... I didnt see no p/wer at all ,,,,. all he had was a water bottle and a can of WD-40 and a couple rags !!
I should of asked him some questions but I was on a mission.
 

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