On 2003 Jul 10 Thursday 17:46, Tom Wade VMS Systems wrote: ... > > >A sector that is not progressing at all is tiles and carpets. Almost > > everything is priced by the square yard, no metric in sight. > > I wrote to the Director of Consumer Affairs about this in light of a recent > directive mandating unit pricing. They wrote back to confirm that pricing > by the square yard or the lb (some butchers still do it) does not fulfill > the requirements (use of imperial is permitted only if metric pricing is > given too). I intend formally complaining to the ODCA after checking with > local carpet shops. The problem, of course, is that price per square yard > looks cheaper.
It's interesting that here in the UK /yd2 carpet prices are still given alongside /m2, tiles are universally quoted per m2 only (in my limited experience). -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Association www.metric.org.uk
