[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-08-19 17:08 UTC: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:49:00 +0100, you wrote: > >Grocery shops: In England, there is still dual labeling of beer/cider/ > >milk (because the use of pints is still allowed for these three product > >groups), and for the per-mass prices of not-prepackaged food (because > >the change to kg was only 1.5 years ago in this area), but I see the > >latter fading away more and more. > > > >Markus > > Yesterday I went for a drive through the Cotswolds. We stopped in > Chipping Camden, a magnet for tourists, full of little cottages and > narrow streets, and the sort of place you don't expect to find many > Labour voters. Yet a quick visit to a couple of high-street > 'mini-markets' showed all loose produce showing prices 'per kg' - > ONLY. Not a lb anywhere!
That's to be expected. They have to manually label products, they get their prices per kg from their suppliers, so the pound only shows up in customer displays, and adding it is merely inconvenient work. Where I still see dual labeling in per-pound prices, it is only in large supermarkets where a computer inventory system prints the price label automatically. There, it would cost effort to remove the few lines of code to add the pound prices, so they haven't done it yet. I suspect, it will happen for sure the next time they have to make some change on the layout of these price labels. Fair enough ... The only aspect in grocery shop metrication that surprises me is that milk in plastic containers is still sold in pints. These containers would be very easy to replace, and I had though the exception for milk was only for when it is delivered in glass bottles. What's the full story behind milk metrication in the UK? Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
