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Article: Vacuum cleaners--understanding the choices.(Commercial Floor Care)
- Article from:
- ICS Cleaning Specialist
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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On an episode of "I Love Lucy," Lucy Ricardo worked as a door-to-door saleswoman plying vacuum cleaners. She soon found out they were a much harder sell than she had originally thought. There was a lot to know about the product, and her potential customers were becoming more and more bewildered by the new array of features and options vacuum cleaner manufacturers were offering.
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In many ways, selling and purchasing vacuum cleaners today is even more difficult. That's because there are many different types of machines now available--uprights, backpacks, wide-area, walk-behinds, and canisters--in a variety of models and options, and ...