Chris, I would expect tourist areas would be 100% metric for exactly the same reason that you would expect tourist areas in foreign countries to be English-speaking. To get the dollars.
(Except for the US of course, who already have the dollars). Regards Mike Perth, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:08 AM Subject: [USMA:21811] Re: Dual labeling On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:49:00 +0100, you wrote: >"Carl Sorenson" wrote on 2002-08-19 04:32 UTC: >> Is there much dual labeling in Australia? England? > >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! Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
