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)
> 

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