Hi Nat is correct. By 'Kg' I only meant to say metric is in big font. I made a mistake by writing 'Kg' instead of 'kg'. Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
I can settle this debate..... http://www.win.net/dorsea/nehager/metric/tide_tablets.jpg Nat > > 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. > > >
