I'm glad that you were able to take part in that, Gene. You've got some
good background knowledge for a foundation for your views on that topic.
I'm sure that you, as I do, find it frustrating to see one can of a
product unit priced in cents per fluid ounce and another can unit priced
in cents per pint.
Jim
On 2014-02-19 19:24, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
Please note the correction of the second word in my email.
Eugene Mechtly
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From: mechtly, eugene a
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:15 PM
To: U.S. Metric Accociation
Cc: david.sef...@nist.gov; kenneth.butc...@nist.gov; mechtly, eugene a
Subject: Unit Pricing of Consumer Products in Retail Marketplaces
Unit Pricing may be defined as Price per Unit of Measurement in retail markets.
Some examples are: dollars per liter for bottled water, cents per milliliter
for eye drops, cents per gram for nuts, seeds, or berries, dollars per kilogram
for flour, cents per meter for dental floss, etc.
A Guiding Principal is that a sIngle expression for the Unit Price (price per
measurement unit) must be applied to all items of a given category, from all
packers, in all package sizes, or from random size packages, or from bulk
distribution, in each particular retail establishment, to enable consumers to
compare cost and value of each and every brands of that category offered for
sale in each particular retail store.
A Web Meeting of a NIST Working Group on Unit Pricing was conducted earlier
today.
David Sefcik of NIST is the leader of this Working Group.
About twenty members of the Group, including several from Australia,
participated today.
A Unit Pricing Guide is being drafter by the Group. The Guide is presently in the form
of "Draft Version 6."
Version 6 is not confidential, although the Final Version has not yet been
written or approved by the Working Group.
By participating in this Group, i hope to advance the use of SI in Unit
Pricing, just as grams and milliliters are presently found on Labels of
Nutrition Facts.
The existing FPLA *does not* require that Unit Prices be expressed in units
outside the SI. The existing FPLA requires only that units outside the SI be
*included* in declarations on labels of the net amounts offered for sale.
Eugene Mechtly
