Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10448:
>I have seen the new 2 kg Tide boxes of tablets more and more in the shops.
>In one store they occupied an end of Aisle display. Yet, the in store ad
>showed them as 4.41 lb size instead of the 2 kg size.
>
>In the detergent aisle, I noticed something very dumb. A box of SURF and a
>box of ALL powder detergents were labelled as 2 lhs. 3 oz.. (0.99 kg). Now,
>isn't this ridiculous? What is so hard about labelling it as 1 kg? And I'm
>sure it is 1 kg. This is the nonsense that turns of consumers to metric.
>And, both of these boxes are labelled in French and Spanish as well as
>English. These people need to be written to.
Han added in USMA 10453
>I deeply suspect that such labelling as 2 lb 3 oz (0.99 kg) is not done out
>of ignorance, but done deliberately to set comsumers up against the metric
>system. Making metric look stupid is one of the ifp goons' tactics. Just
>read all those 'funny' and 'humourous' anti-metric diatribes which have been
>published through the years,
All postings to this list about Proctor and Gamble indicate the company is
friendly to metric and is gradually converting their products to hard
metric quantities. However US regulations require guantity declarations in
pounds and ounces. 2 lb 3 oz is the conversion of 1 kg. Some stupid
person in P & G
converted this back to 0.992 kg, and rounded it off to 0.99 kg. It was a
stupid oversight, not a deliberate plot to show the metric system in a bad
light.
