In Ireland Tesco does not seem to be involved in anti-metric antics. And I do not think they can indulge in them in their shopping centre on the French side of the Channel Tunnel.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-10-10 21:30 Subject: [USMA:22602] Re: Mandatory conversion? > Gunthros wrote: > >I'm from the UK > > Welcome. > > > >Tesco (one of our major suoermarket chains) advertises its > >loose bananas at 39 p/lb > > Tesco is using the law on advertising to continue promoting pound only > prices. They show dual or metric-only prices where the indication is not > an advert. Thus the law on 'price indication' is being complied with. > Advertising is a completely different set of laws. > > Tesco is known to be anti-metric. > > >This does seem to contravene the spirit of Magna Carta that there > >shall be one system of measurement throughout the realm. > > Magna Carta does not say that. If it did, then it would not have been > possible to run dual metric and imperial measures for all these years. > That is, if Magna Carta were treated like the US Constitution, which it > is not. The UK constitution is a much more complicated entity. > > Have you joined the UKMA? > > http://www.usma.demon.co.uk/index.htm > > >
