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 >
