That's really good news about Tesco.
As I expect to be over there again in four weeks, I'll go in and see for
myself. <g>
So much for that clown on alt.politics.uk who ends all his messages with "I
shop at Tescos."
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: November 01, 2000 13:38
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:8934] (fwd) A true story
>
>
> I've just received the following from one of the members of my new
> UKMA mailing list:
>
> >Chris,
> >
> >Thanks for putting the list together - it's nice to see the beginnings
> >of a more widespread metric advocacy campaign starting.
> >
> >I was walking to my local newsagent on Sunday morning, when I
> passed three
> >girls about 16 or so discussing a restaurant that one of them
> ate at the night
> > before. She had said her father managed to eat a 20 ounce steak.
> >Another of the girls then asked "how big is that then?" The
> third girl then said
> >"about 500 grams". To which the second girl said "that's not so big!"
> >
> >I think it illustrates perfectly what the problem is in the UK.
> Younger people
> >are obviously more comfortable with metric measures, while many
> older people
> >either aren't willing to learn or actively ignoring them. It
> seems like the
> >current strategy is to wait until the last person that prefers
> imperial units
> >to die before going metric only.
> >
> >To which I say it's time for a pro-metric campaign along the
> lines of "let's
> >finish the job". There's too many instances of dual measurements
> being used for
> >too long a period of time. My favourite illustration of this is
> the weather.
> >Canada took three months to go to Celsius only weather reports.
> What is it now here?
> >20 years? 30 years?! I'd love to see at least one newspaper here
> give me the high
> >and low in degrees Celsius, rather than just the high in degrees
> Celsius and Fahrenheit.
> >
> >The choice is between two systems and one. The one won't be Imperial.
> >
> >Thanks, Jeff Gross
> >
> >PS - My local Tesco has gone back to posting prices for loose
> goods and deli items
> >by the 100 g and kg more prominently than by the 1/4 lb and lb.
> They even have a sign
> >at the deli counter that says "we measure metric". I believe
> their Imperial reversion
> >lasted all of two months.
> >
> >I think they figured out either that a) they'll lose the legal
> battle or that b) the price
> >per 100 g is lower than the price per 1/4 lb.
>
> --
> Chris KEENAN
> UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
> UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
>
>
