Customer pockets hold plenty, survey says

摘要

A survey of British drycleaners recently found that customers left more than 9,000 USB memory sticks in garment pockets in 2008. But many more items get left in customer pockets at dropoff, according to those responding to this month's Wire survey-and memory sticks aren't at the top of the list.rnThe most common items emptied from customer pockets are paper money and pens and pencils, readers say, with 93.8% of drycleaners surveyed collecting $37.80 in cash from garments and 25.4 pens and pencils, on average, every month. With more than 25,000 dryeleaning outlets in the U.S., that adds up to almost $1 million and hundreds of thousands of writing implements.