Reference the Tide as 0,99 kg. We recently bought a bag of dog food at Costco which was labelled as 44 lbs 19,99 kg. A 20 kg bag of dog food if I ever saw one! Mike Payne Virginia On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:02:22 -0500 "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2001-01-13 > > 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. > > Gl�ckliches Neues Jahr! > Happy New Year! > > John > > Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich > glaubt > frei zu sein. > > There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely > believe they > are free! > > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
