Carpet sales have been in decline for two or three years. Carpet mills have laid people off and cut budgets. The last time I was in a Dalton restaurant it had all of the ambience of a wake. But in 2008 carpet makers still managed to top a billion dollars in sales at wholesale which translates into more billions in sales at the retail level.
For carpet cleaners this means work. On top of that, the mills have been cranking out about two billion square yards of carpet every year for the past ten years and all of that carpet has a life expectancy of 8 to 12 years. And the fact that consumers clean rather than replace carpet during tough economic times means the cleaning profession has the makings of a boom.
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