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2001-09-02
It takes up less room on the display if the price unit becomes dollars per
hectogram ($/hg).
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, 2001-09-02 11:02
Subject: [USMA:15100] Re: Fw: Weights and
Measures
In a message dated
2001-09-01 13:46:29 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Canada it is legal to sell loose retail food by the kilogram
or 100
grams, or by the pound or ounce. It has just struck me that
one of the
reasons that most food is priced by the pound is that the
price by the
kilogram looks too large, and "100 g" takes more space on
the price tag
than "lb.". That would not apply if Metric
Commission Canada had not
frowned upon hectogram, dekagram, and
decigram. Pricing by the pound (lb.)
has no advantage over pricing
by the hectogram (hg).
In quite a few delicatessens up
there I've seen cheese and other things like
that priced by the 100 g.
100 g takes up less room than "hectogram" and is a
lot more
understandable.
Carleton
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