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Thread Number: 39692
/ Tag: Brand New Vacuum Cleaners
Biggest selling Vacs in the US? |
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| Post# 421161 3/6/2020 at 00:15 (1,504 days old) by vacfan1982 (Cardiff) | ||
What are the biggest selling Vacs in the US?
Here in the UK sadly it's Bagless. Dyson , Shark, Vax, Bosch and cordless becoming more and more popular. Henrys would be the biggest selling bagged cleaners followed by Miele and Sebo lagging behind in the domestic market. I think Sebo deserve to sell a lot more because they are excellent! | ||
| Post# 421163 , Reply# 1 3/6/2020 at 03:32 (1,504 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
Bissell and Dirt Devil do good in the low tier. (Under $50-$60)
Hoover and Eureka battle it out for middle range. ($80-$120) For most people that believe more money gets them a better vac - Shark is slowly stealing the spotlight from Dyson but both sell reasonably well for high end vacs. ($150-$200+) Sebo and Miele still do good for premium price vacuums that sell at or above Dyson's MSRP. ($400-600+) Kirby and Rainbow are still surviving too - but those tend to be bought measured in decades and not years - they are more of vacuums for a niche market today. Most people that own them are collectors - or have been lifelong users and stick to their guns. That's just my opinion on how the USA vacuum market goes. | ||
| Post# 421165 , Reply# 2 3/6/2020 at 04:51 (1,504 days old) by vacfan1982 (Cardiff) | ||
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| Post# 421166 , Reply# 3 3/6/2020 at 05:57 (1,504 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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And of course I forgot - for workshop and contractor use I think Shop Vac and Dewalt are the top ones. Dewalt is a trusted tool name here so most people follow through with that brand to the shop vacuums. The everyday handyman and people that get damp basements or to clean their cars out like to get Shop Vac for occasional use.
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| Post# 421168 , Reply# 4 3/6/2020 at 08:37 (1,504 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
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| Post# 421205 , Reply# 6 3/7/2020 at 02:34 (1,503 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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Sad to hear about Eureka. I still have my Brushroll Clean with Suctionseal I bought new in 2016 on rollback from Walmart.com. It might be due for a new belt, and the motor has a bit of a squeak on spin-down but everything else still works 100%. Just common scuffs and scrapes and the front logo is coming unglued. I was careful with it as best as I could but it still gets scuffed no matter how much I try, need to get rid of more stuff out of my house so its more vacuum friendly.
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| Post# 421269 , Reply# 8 3/8/2020 at 13:52 (1,502 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
Kenmore is now effectively out of the picture with all of the Sears and Kmart closures. They are selling specific models online with Home Depot, Lowes and Walmart, but I expect the sales are low. The current manufacturer Cleva also markets at vac shops.
Market today seems to be mainly for the bagless uprights, recharable hand vac and robot vacuum areas. Bulky bagless uprights of the past seem to be going more toward the Shark and Hoover React type lift off style machines. Canisters are now largely in the specialty market, you go to a vac shop if you want one of them for the most part. There are few in most retail stores compared to other types, and the ones that are tend to be very small, straight suction models. The cheaper market to me is just as has been mentioned by the others - Bissell, Bissell, Bissell, followed by Shark, then Hoover, then Dyson for the pricier end. These are mostly all you'll find in retail stores now, with some Dirt Devil mixed in. Eureka is slowly coming back though. Hoover really has drawn down the last couple of years though, I haven't even seen any advertising from them in quite some time. They have discontinued a lot of their higher end offerings such as the mentioned SP Windtunnel and various canisters as well it seems. | ||
| Post# 421302 , Reply# 10 3/9/2020 at 07:31 (1,501 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 421344 , Reply# 12 3/9/2020 at 17:27 (1,501 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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Yep, many young people (myself included) setting up housekeeping in apartment or home. If they do buy a vacuum, usually go for bagless from Walmart, Target or similar, because like you say they assume it's better because no bags and it's cheap. Not much thought to put into it, it's "just a vacuum." If it isn't an iPhone, a sports car/truck or a firearm, they aren't interested in knowing how to fix it or read the manual to know there's a filter (generally).
Just saying... Haven't seen Miele at the Bed Bath and Beyond here, but I notice they don't carry some of the higher end items other B B & Bs do. | ||
Post# 421396 , Reply# 15 3/10/2020 at 15:26 (1,500 days old) by Kloveland  (Tulsa) |
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In the future I think it’s going to cheap vacs, central vacs and robotic vacuums. I don’t see door to door brands being around forever. I think the cheap bagless vacs have definitely taken over. It’s 2020 the market is changing and has been changing for a long time. More homes have less carpeting and some people think they can get by without a vacuum cleaner.
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| Post# 421398 , Reply# 17 3/10/2020 at 15:59 (1,500 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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"Fan of fans I challenge you....
To get an Electrolux canister and try it out. Have you ever tried one? I think you might soon realize the simplicity, ease of use, high filtration quality, ease in dealing with the dirt, etc. That makes higher quality machine really a great performer. Get one with a genuine rubber hose, the genuine combination attachments and a power nozzle in good working order, likely the L shaped version a sidekick mini power nozzle too and put it through your toughest cleaning challenges, cleaning sofas covered in pet hair and crumbs, cleaning a really dirty carpeted staircase, cleaning the carpet along walls and baseboards, behind furniture. Do a thorough cleaning of a rental house after a teen ant moves out and has failed to clean in months and I think you’ll find using a higher quality machine is easier on the tasks than these cheap machines and is a better performer and why not have one of these great performers even if you just live by yourself with a pet or two in a smaller place? You’ll soon come to realize quality does make a difference. One won’t be as tired after cleaning. Won’t be annoyed and disgusted getting covered in dust emptying a bagless bin...or putting it off compromising suction because it’s an annoying gross task...You won’t find vacuuming a clumsy chore or put off vacuuming steps because it’s too hard and the list goes on. Literally vacuuming will be come a pleasure with a better quality machine as all aspects will be easier." Yes, I own an Electrolux and numerous canisters. I don't even own any bagless uprights, I only really like canisters and bagged uprights. | ||
| Post# 421399 , Reply# 18 3/10/2020 at 16:01 (1,500 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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"In the future I think it’s going to cheap vacs, central vacs and robotic vacuums. I don’t see door to door brands being around forever. I think the cheap bagless vacs have definitely taken over. It’s 2020 the market is changing and has been changing for a long time. More homes have less carpeting and some people think they can get by without a vacuum cleaner."
That's true and for some reason people think they don't need a vacuum cleaner if they don't have carpet. Using a vacuum on hard floor or above the floor cleaning just doesn't click for a lot of people. Therefore they think there's no need for one. | ||
| Post# 422528 , Reply# 19 3/31/2020 at 19:34 (1,479 days old) by myles_v (Fredericksburg, VA) | ||
Stores like Walmart have changed a lot of industries, including the vacuum cleaner industry. Most consumers walk into Walmart and they'll see the $39 Bissells on endcaps, a long line of Sharks ranging anywhere from $99-$250, a few additional Bissell models, a couple of Hoovers and Dirt Devils, and maybe two Dyson models. The locations near me sell a single bagged model, the bagged version of the Powerforce. I haven't seen any canister machines in a Walmart in a long time.
When most consumers see this, they either pick the $39 Bissell or they'll buy the "high end" Shark for $200. These people can't fathom spending over $300 on an actual higher end vacuum cleaner, because stores like Walmart and companies like Bissell and Shark have convinced them to buy a cheap vacuum to use for a couple of years and replace. This is helped by long warranty periods that are convoluted to actually take advantage of, oftentimes it ends up being easier for the consumer to buy a new machine than it is to pay to ship the original back to the maker for repair or replacement. Someone in an earlier reply claimed that the market share is 50/50 for bagged/bagless machines. I can't see how that could be true. I recently explained the concept of a bagged vacuum cleaner to someone because they had almost zero understanding of the idea. They asked me if it gets tiring having to wash out the bag every time I vacuum. We have many people who have either forgotten about or have never known about the existence of bagged vacuum cleaners. We are at the point where people who were raised with Eureka Whirlwinds and Fantoms are starting to move out of their parents' houses to furnish their own residence, and most of them are going to understandably buy the cheapest of the cheap for everything. From bed sheets to vacuum cleaners, many of them are buying the cheapest items they can find at Walmart. This is a deeper problem with how wasteful our society is, companies have trained us to buy low quality goods and replace them more often. This provides a steadier stream of income for the producers of consumer goods. At this point, bagged vacuum cleaners on the American market are almost exclusively at/near the top end of the market. There are very few machines under $200 that are bagged relative to the number of bagless machines in this same price range. I agree with what Kenny Loveland said in an earlier post, high end portable vacuums are slowly being phased out in favor of alternatives. Robots and cordless stick vacs are all the rage right now. I think we will be lucky to see central vacs gain in popularity, I hope that ends up being the case but I think it would be tough to see it happen. I have never known a non-collector who actually liked using their central vacuum system, many consumers find the long hose to be cumbersome. Hide-a-Hose systems are helping to remedy this, so we'll have to see what the future brings. | ||
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