On Monday 2004 March 08 01:02, Chimpsarecute wrote: > If a trader has a dual pound/kilogram analogue scale in his shop and has > either dual or pound (some do even though it is illegal) only price charts > it is now possible and highly probable he is not making a sale in metric > units.
I rarely go into the small shops that are the most likely to flout the law (supermarkets all use completely legal, kg-only scales - except for the mechanical scales which are available to customers next to the products, which are metric one side, imperial the other), so cannot give a definitive answer. But my experience has been that they all use digital scales. These can be bought with a metric/imperial switch, and I believe these are the dual scales referred to. (I never look at the BWMA site these days, but I believe they give guidance in these matters.) I know of one local shop which I visited a few months ago that had one of these machines, and it was set to imperial. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc: www.metric.org.uk
