From: Stephen C. Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 6, 2001 07:46 Subject: [USMA:13499] Re: Great 'Times' article. > >Also, does the SI price have to be more prominent, >or at least as prominent, as the ifp price? > >One of the reasons that the metric conversion >was brought to a crawl in Canada is that many >stores display the ifp price in large letters, >and the SI price is shown in much smaller print. Yes, it's absolutely ludicrous that the grocery chains continue to clutter up their ads with dual pricing especially since the transaction is done in SI. I sometimes think they want to make price comparisons as difficult as possible and they are, therefor, happy to keep 'throwing sand' in their customers' eyes. > >Stephen Gallagher >
