My comments below in the text:
MightyChimp wrote:
David,
How would you like to be a poster on the BWMA site? We need UK citizens to
post rebuttals to statements made by UK imperialists. I'm always told that
because I've never been to the UK I don't know what I'm saying when I make
statements of the advanced the usage of metric in the British economy. I
need back-up.
Other people go to that site and we need to be there to undo some of the
BWMA brainwashing.
BTW, what percentage of pre-packaged goods are metric only on your
supermarket shelves, dual metric/imperial and imperial only.
As far as I can tell, ALL pre-packaged goods are metric only, at least
the ones I have in my kitchen and those I have seen in the shops. It has
been this way for many years, in fact, I can remember as a child many
years ago seeing packaged goods in metric, and I think it was metric
only or predominantly metric only then. I never see dual markings with
metric and imperial for food products. I do see dual measures sometimes
for bathroom things like shower gel.
Do unit price labels ever show unit pricing in imperial?
In the supermarkets mostly they have large metric unit pricing, e.g. 74
p per kg, and on the shelf label they add the imperial pricing in
smaller text (which is the correct legal way to do it), but in Tesco
they have large imperial pricing and small metric pricing, which is
illegal, but somehow they get away with it.
In your community do all shops now use metric scales? Could you report to
us the status of the shops you visit?
I never visit the small shops that sell food, I only use supermarkets,
mostly because the small shops are mostly imperial and have been always
that way. Very few use metric, even though they are required to do so by
law. So I refuse to shop at them.
Are the deli counter scales in view or hidden from the view of the customer?
I never use the deli counter.
We need to coordinate where I could post questions about metric activities,
watch the BWMA members responses and then you could enter with a "truth" or
"lie" statement.
What do you think?
Euric
