Since the start of the pandemic, cleaning has taken centre stage in every industry. Customers are fixated on the cleanliness of every part of your store. They want to know it’s been appropriately taken care of -- even the abyss underneath the fixtures where the stray hangers and lonely socks end up. So why are we still accepting sub-standard cleaning practices in a time where health, safety, and hygiene are the nation’s priority?
Floor mopping takes up 35 - 40% of the working time in most cleaning jobs.
Just picture this; you enter a high-end store where you anticipate luxury goods, a premium experience, and excellent customer service. You then see a cleaner with a bucket of filthy water. They dump in a straggly string mop, let it drip and then start slopping it wall to wall and around the floor. Suddenly the store looks a lot less sophisticated.
Disappointed? So are your customers.
Cleaning is no longer something you can do once or twice a week to tick a box. Now, periodic deep cleaning and daily maintenance are the only ways to keep on top of your business’ hygiene and reassure your customers that you’re doing everything to protect them.
First impressions count, especially when convincing someone to part with their hard-earned money. Studies show that 84% of shoppers place significant value on the physical environment of a store, whilst a further 64% said they have previously left a store because of its poor appearance. Your cleaning methods are also under scrutiny, as the obvious use of dirty mops would influence almost two-thirds of people to view a business negatively. Not keeping on top of your cleaning routine is a sure-fire way to lose your customers, as they instantly associate your store with poor standards and disappointing quality.
The typical string mops also cause more contamination than they clear. A study by Leeds Beckett University (Leeds Metropolitan University at the time) found that the tools used to clean floors were key culprits in spreading bacteria; the floors were more infested with bacteria after mopping than they had been before. But these bacteria aren’t removed. They either remain on the floor that you think is clean or make themselves at home inside the mophead itself festering, multiplying, and gearing up to contaminate the next floor you want to ‘clean’ until the mop falls apart due to bacterial decomposition.
So, what is the answer?
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Microfibre mops hold 96% less bacteria than traditional mop heads.
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* You can also view this article in the August edition of Tomorrow's Cleaning.
