I can settle this debate.....
http://www.win.net/dorsea/nehager/metric/tide_tablets.jpg
Nat
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> Are you sure the box showed "Kg," rather than "kg?" Procter and Gamble is
> usually more careful than that.
>
> >
> > Yesterday in a K-Mart (in Washington DC Metro) store I
> > saw the tide detergent box. Its Made in Canada for
> > the NAFTA market and has instructions in English,
> > Spanish & French.
> >
> > It has
> > "2 Kg" written in big font followed by
> > "some oz and pounds" in small font in the next line.
> >
> > and in the same shelf, there are US made products for
> > the US market alone in which the
> > oz, pounds and kg's are in same font in the same line.
> >
> > Its a very nice tactic to promote metric. If the
> > companies increase the font size of metric units
> > slowly over the years, people will switch over to it
> > smoothly.
> >
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