On Saturday, I was surprised to see a very pro-metric advertisement in my newspaper for paint sold at Rona. Rona is a chain of 540 home improvement stores similar to Home Depot located mostly in Quebec & Ontario.
Their advertisement said "Buy three 4 litre cans of paint and the fourth one is free." It intrigued me because paint, in Canada is not, on the whole, sold in 4 L cans. Because they're mostly from the US, they're in 3.78 L cans. The ad went on to say that the ad applied to any cans with 3.4 L to 3.98 L. Here is where the ad can be found http://www.rona.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/rona/srvr_030312.jsp?langId=-1&; storeId=10001 I'm glad they didn't say "Buy three US Gallons, get one free". It's also nice to see that they have a webpage with calculating tools (paint, wallpaper, etc) http://www.rona.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/rona/tools_calcul.jsp?nodeId=5_ 135§ionId=130&storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10051&parent_category_rn =5 These pages offer you the option of entering measurements in either metric or ifp, and metric is the default. Stephen Gallagher
