Bill, I remember a Von's Supermarket out in Ventura a couple years ago, that seemed to be changing its unit pricing for wine and/or liquor from $/oz to $/Liter. Both labeling styles were on the shelf at once, so I assumed it was a step in the right direction.
Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Potts Sent: Monday, 2004 April 12 16:19 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:29506] RE: Liquor metric bottles You should take a look at the unit pricing on the supermarket shelves (assuming supermarkets sell alcohol in your state). Safeway and several others show their unit pricing for wine and liquor in oz. (Not even fl. oz., but oz. Fl. oz. would be correct, but still stupid.) I used to send diplomatically-worded emails about it to some of them, but never got a meaningful or positive response. I could send blunt emails, but that would be counterproductive. I've only ever found one manager in a supermarket who knew anything about the metric system -- and the one I found was, in fact, vehemently in favor of SI. Unfortunately, he was only one of the junior managers -- with zero influence. Of course, if he gets a series of promotions, he might have the power to make some changes.. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Phil Chernack >Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 06:26 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:29501] RE: Liquor metric bottles > > >I have never seen any advertising in non-metric units for liquor. Even >unit pricing at the local Shop-Rite and Costco are in metric. Although >the bottles are labeled in L or mL, I do recall seeing cL on some >bottles but that was a while ago. I have not seen it recently. > >Phil >(585) 272-3372
