A recent visit to a supermarket in British Columbia yielded a couple of surprises. I have lived in the USA for 11 years but I am used to the metric standards of Australia where shops sell and price everything in kilograms.
I found it odd that the bulk goods in the BC supermarket were priced in decagrams. I had to multiply everything by 10 to get a sense of its price. Not a great mental effort, but remembering that I had to do it every single time was inconvenient. The second thing I noticed that *meat* was priced in lbs. The kg price appeared on the label in small lettering but the price per lb was overwhelmingly dominant. Of course it was weighed in grams. I suppose it was all a bit better than the produce market in St John, New Brunswick that I visited last year where there wasn't a kilogram in sight. -- Jon Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer of cross-platform software for UNIX, Windows and OS/2 U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd http://www.triton.vg/
