*Giveaway Alert!* Peeking inside 1-800-Baskets.com

Posted at 6:42 am on February 1, 2010 by Catherine

I’m not certain what I was expecting when I signed up to tour 1-800-Baskets.com, but they blew me out of the water.  From start to finish they were professional, competent, friendly and, most importantly of all, yummy!

I was really only familiar with 1-800-Baskets because of the raffle giveaways at holiday parties.  You know what I’m talking about.  I’ve eyed those lovely baskets but now I know so much about them I actually feel tinges of affection towards them.

The tour started with their design room.  Every detail in the room just oozed “creative” and “friendly” and (did I mention this yet? “yummy!”  We learned how they study trends months in advance in order to offer the hippest possible designs and colors to their clients.  I even got to see next Christmas’ designs!  It was fun to see the artistic work that goes into building each basket from the very earliest conception.  And when they said “Which of these designs do you think we made for Costco” I pointed to one without hesitation..and I was right.  Ok, so I’m a Costco fan.

We met the people who find the trends, who design and build the boxes that hold the chocolate and other goodies, who travel around the country selecting goodies to go in the baskets, who pack the baskets full of goodies, who shrink wrap the baskets full of goodies, who ship the baskets full of goodies.  From start to finish, 1-800-Baskets owns the process and not one detail goes unnoticed.   I was truly and genuinely impressed.

Did I mention yummy?  As part of the tour we had a taste test of some of the cheeses you can find in their baskets.  Each one was delicious and each one had a story behind it.  Then came the chocolate.  And then came the chocolate covered strawberries, which were almost too pretty too eat…but of course, not quite.

Finally, we got to try our hand at making our own baskets.  This was super fun, and a few days later my own basket arrived perfectly at my doorstep.  As pretty as it was we lost no time eating it to shreds.

The good news for one of you is that I have a basket to giveaway!  Just take a look at their cool line of Valentines Baskets and leave a comment telling me something that looks yummy.  I can’t promise that it will be in your basket, but one lucky winner will be drawn at random next week and sent a basket shortly thereafter!  If you want a second entry to the contest (and believe me, you do) blog, tweet, or facebook about the contest and let me know that you did.

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