(photo credit: (Katherine Frey -- The Washington Post)
Funny and interesting article in today's Post.
A grocery store in Chevy Chase, MD now has it's own "CartWash".
How many times have you gone to a grocery store, picked out your cart and taken a double look to see what exactly is that foreign substance on the handle bars or in the basket itself?
~LT
Shopping Cart Wash Lets Customers Get Groceries, Not Germs
By Steve Hendrix
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Page B01
The Kirsch brothers want you to know: At Chevy Chase Supermarket, it is now safe to lick the shopping carts.
Not that they recommend it, mind you, but as co-owners, along with their dad, of the venerable independent grocery store on Connecticut Avenue, Jason and Kevin Kirsch know how common it is for their youngest customers to treat cart handles like lollipops. Worse, they know how unnerved folks have become in recent years over alarmist reports that rank shopping carts right up there with public restroom toilet seats in terms of germs.
And so the brothers yesterday installed what they say is the Washington area's first full-scale shopping cart wash, a push-through device that sprays a misty peroxide solution over each cart between every use. It dries in a few seconds, leaving behind a faint whiff of beauty parlor and a cart promised to be 99.9 percent germ free for the next customer.
Full article: www.washingtonpost.com
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