David King wrote
>in Tesco they have large imperial pricing and small metric pricing,
>which is illegal, but somehow they get away with it.

They 'get away with it' by claiming the large imperial price quotes are
adverts. There is no law that restricts prominence of units in adverts. Nor
is there anything to stop them putting an advert near the product. If you
look closely at their product displays, you will see a legally compliant
price indication with equal size metric and imperial units (i.e. not an
advert).


>I never visit the small shops that sell food, I only use supermarkets,
>mostly because the small shops are mostly imperial ... even though
>they are required to do so by law.

'Most' means you think that more than 5 in 10 small shops are breaking the
law. If you never visit small UK shops, perhaps your impression is too
pessimistic and/or out of date. I try to support small businesses when I
can. My impression is that most small shops in the UK are metric to the full
extent of their legal obligations.

Incidentally, some UK laws of interest to metrication do not only apply to
'small shops'. Small is usually defined as less than 280 square metres. For
example, large shops are required to provide unit prices with prominent
metric units. Small shops are not required to provide unit pricing at all.
Any unit pricing you see in a small shop is voluntary and theoretically
could be in imperial units only.

As I understand it.

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