Thanks Bill.
Here in Montgomery County MD liquor is not sold in supermarkets, only in
county owned liquor stores.
Stan Doore

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:18 PM
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
>

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