Wegmans here no longer sells metric milk either. I have not asked as to why but I can 
fathom a guess. 

Howard Ressel
Project Design Engineer, Region 4
(585) 272-3372

>>> "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/07/02 02:46PM >>>
2002-12-07

Pepperidge Farm is a part of Campbell's Soup.  See the other products in
this group:

http://www.campbellsoup.com/our_brands.asp 

This is interesting as none of the other products in the Campbell's Soup
group off any rational SI products.  Let's hope Pepperidge Farm use of
metric will spread to the other divisions.  What other Pepperidge Farm
products are in metric?  Has anyone noticed?

BTW, I was in the neighbourhood Super K-mart today.  They were the one's
selling the 3 L milk.  Not any more.  They must have switched suppliers.
They now sell only gallons and half-gallons.  The former supplier was
Weggmanns, now it is Dairyman's.  The failure of the 3 L milk carton to
catch on was it was used by only one supplier and was over priced.  This
goes to show you that the slow approach really does not work.  Those few
that become trend-setters often find themselves alone and eventually
back-off or disappear.

In the long term, progress is non-existent.  The drips and drops evaporate
and the status-quo remains.  What will it take for us to understand that
only a planned metrication will work?  I guess we have to wait until someone
important dies from a drug overdose and the government forces or we lose so
much of our manufacturing base to metric countries that we will have no
choice but to use metric as that will be the only system products will be
made in.

Dumb and getting dumber!

John



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 2002-12-07 12:40
Subject: [USMA:23823] another metric product


> Another product from an American company goes metric:
>
> cookies
>          Pepperidge Farm (Norwalk, CT) Pirouette
>                  400 g
>
> The exact contents text is "Net Wt 14.1 oz (400 g)."
>
>
> Jim Elwell, CAMS
> Electrical Engineer
> Industrial manufacturing manager
> Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
> www.qsicorp.com 
>

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