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Next-Generation, Smart Home Appliances are Being Developed by LG to Track Sleep

LG Electronics is partnering with ASLEEP, to develop customized next-generation smart home appliances optimized for customers’ sleep conditions. ASLEEP is a South Korean sleep-tech AI startup that specializes in sleep diagnosis. The company signed an agreement for ‘sleep research cooperation’ that will work to develop new smart home appliances, including refrigerators, TVs, air conditioners and washing machines to integrate ASLEEP’s…

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Slow Consumer Demand Impacts Whirlpool

Whirlpool Cuts Earnings Outlook After Consumer Demand Drops Whirlpool Corp. reported they are reducing their forecast for the rest of year due to consumer  demand dropping  and is lower than they expected sales and profitability for Q3, 2022. High inflation affected the third-quarter profitability and led to a decline in consumption. Since late 2020, Whirlpool has hiked prices almost every…

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Don’t Let Inflation Impact Your Home Repair Service Bottom line<

If there’s one thing that’s certain, the average costs to run a home repair business in 2022 is very different from the costs just a year ago. Inflation has impacted everything. Retail appliance prices have increased around 20 percent and wholesale appliances prices have increased three to five times over the last couple of years. The home repair industry has…

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Do Service Workers Perform Better With Tips?

Good question, do you or your technicians receive tips? If yes, do you work harder or go out of your way so your customer will tip? Workers in most service industries are largely dependent on tips to survive. In fact in the hospitality industry, tipping service workers is a longstanding American norm, however in the home service industry it isn’t. …

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Speed Queen is Helping to Save Our Best Friends

Speed Queen wants to give back to heroes who give so much of their time to love animals in need. Across the country, Speed Queen is donating pairs of its ultra-quiet TR7 top-load washer and DR7 sanitizing dryer with Pet Plus sanitizing and fur-removal cycles to select foster pet care providers. As the official laundry partner of BFAS, the Speed…

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