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That got me thinking...Since carpet and tile are priced by the
square foot in the US, pricing it by the smaller square decimeter would be a
popular (with the carpet & tile sellers) way to make the prices look
cheaper. -- Jason
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:19
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Subject: [USMA:26288] Re: Irish speed
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In a message dated 2003-07-10 13:47:19 Eastern Daylight
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
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.
Here in the USA we now see carpeting
and hardwood flooring priced by the square foot. Immediately everything
looks really cheap -- nine times cheaper, in fact. In reality, of
course, nine times the square foot price is a fair bit more than the old
square yard price was. Hard to play those games with
metric.
Carleton
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