UPDATE: Key Food Shopping Baskets, Now Less Dirty! Maybe!

Remember that FIPS reader from last week who was grossed out by the scuzzy shopping baskets at Key Food? Well he was compelled to take action!

"Giving the dirty baskets at the 7th Ave. Key Food situation a 2nd thought, I decided it might do more good to complain to the manager than to just bitch about on FIPS.

From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:46:06 -0500
To: Information Mailbox<InformationMailbox@MANDELL.COM>
Subject: Shopping baskets

Do you ever clean the plastic shopping baskets? They're really sticky and dirty.

Re: Shopping baskets
Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:49 AM
From: "tranderson@mandell.com" <tranderson@mandell.com>
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "Ben Mandel" <bamandel@mandell.com>
Thanks for the message and I will direct the stores to clean the baskets and discard any baskets that are beyond their useful life.

Sincerely
Tom Anderson

As you can see I got a reply the same day. Pretty good, huh? Well, I went in tonight and the baskets are still filthy.

But the good news is that they weren't out of Rolling Rock."

Not only did he get a response the same day, he got one 3 MINS LATER. I mean, I'm still not sure that this will actually result in anything, but still: the response time was pretty fucking impressive.