I was in Costco the other day....and they had some sales on bottled water. The sale sign for the 1 liter bottles read - "30 pack 1-liter bottles - $4.99"
The sale sign for the 500ml bottles read - "40 pack 16.9 fl oz bottles - $3.99" Go figure. At 18:22 2002-07-29 -0500, Paul Trusten wrote: >I get out my car here in Texas, walk towards the grocery store window, and >beam with satisfaction at those wondeful posters screaming the special >price of ONE LITER of soda or water (no WOMBAT conversion in those sales >posters). How thoroughly the American public has embraced that unit, which >came up and offered it a hug more than 25 years ago! The words "ONE LITER" >are shown in the largest fonts the container bears--the WOMBAT units are >the fine print. The soda industry has gone on to offer 3-liter containers. > >So, why can't we have metric milk? Why no 3-liter jug of moo juice? >Anybody seen any SI skim in America? Don't the dairy barons want to seel >215 mL of additional product per container? > >A couple of years ago, someone on this list said (s)he had seen a 3-liter >milk jug for sale, and I've been lookng, but no joy yet.
