Directories

Five directories, two countries · Every profile checked November 2, 2026

Jellyfish runs directories of independent local operators — the businesses the chain directories leave out. Every shelf below follows the same rules: profiles built from public sources with a checked date on every card, chains excluded by design and prices shown only when the operator publishes or confirms them.

Across the shelves that's 248 profiles of independent operators, storefronts, sites and communities. The number on each card is the number on that shelf — unrounded, unpadded and never inflated with chain locations.

Every profile starts in Profiled, built from public sources. It moves to Verified only when the operator confirms it with us directly.

Self-storage — Ontario

Durham Region and the east GTA, Ontario

33 operators profiled, 41 locations. The independent and small regional storage operators of the patch, including facilities the big aggregators never carried.

Self-storage — North Carolina

North Carolina, United States

31 operators profiled, 79 locations, from Charlotte to Asheville, under the same rules as the Ontario shelf.

Laundromats — Ontario

Durham Region and the east GTA, Ontario

46 storefronts profiled and every one independent — no franchise laundromat operates anywhere in this patch. Only two publish their prices.

Laundromats — North Carolina

North Carolina, United States

43 independent operators profiled, 61 locations across six areas. The franchise systems found in the census are counted there and left off the shelf.

Car washes — Ontario

Durham Region and the east GTA, Ontario

19 self-serve and in-bay automatic sites profiled. Express tunnels, full-service washes and gas-bar bays are counted in the census and left off the shelf.

Car washes — North Carolina

North Carolina, United States

39 self-serve and in-bay automatic sites profiled — the layer of the category the consolidators haven't reached.

Mobile parks — North Carolina

North Carolina, United States

37 communities profiled: 34 independent, two run by small regional operators and one resident-owned cooperative.

Ontario: no shelf — the category is institutionally held, one community found (Wilmot Creek, in Clarington).

Rent-to-own listings — Ontario

Durham Region, Ontario

The original shelf. Every listing carries its full terms in the open: price, option fee, monthly credit, future price and refund treatment. Today's honest count is 0 homes listed, so the waitlist is the page.

Contribute — help verify

Every directory, both countries

Know one of these businesses? Spot an error, confirm a fact, report a closure or suggest a business we've missed. Every report is checked by us before anything changes and community input never moves a card to Verified on its own.

Run a business on one of these shelves?

We profiled you from public sources and we'll be in touch to confirm your details. If anything on your card is wrong or you'd rather not be listed, say the word and it's corrected or removed. There's no fee to be profiled and no fee to be removed — and no way to pay for a better position, because position isn't for sale on any shelf.

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