I've noticed the trend recently in the increase in size of large bags of dog and cat food. Many are advertised as "get 5 pounds free" or such. Some, but not all, of the new sizes convert to rounded metric sizes. In the case I'm familiar with, I just bought bird seed for our upcoming winter feedings. Wal-Mart has a 55 pound bag advertised as "5 extra pounds". The bag is labeled 55 pounds (24.95 kg) so you can't tell me that's not a trend towards rounded metric packaging, but I'm not going to write them a nasty-gram criticizing the quantity. It will be easy at some point to change the label to 25 kg (55 lb) now that the quantity is already metric. When I picked up the package I noted both the older 50 pound bags on top and the new 55 lb bags on the bottom of the pile. They are hoping to sell out the older "non-metric" bags first. In this case we have an increase in the package size associated with metrication, not a decrease I've seen happen as well. Don
