----- Original Message ----- From: "David King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2004-07-29 07:13 Subject: [USMA:30576] Re: BWMA to challenge the metric only labelling law in court
> 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. When you say add, do you mean by the means of a computer generated label as the unit ptice per metric quantity would be, ot do you mean something written on a label with a marker by a person? Either way, it seems like a costly step that the consumer has to pay for. > > >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. Actually, you should for a very good reason. You can see for yourself if they are imperial or not. You don't have to buy anything, just walk in, look around and leave. Those that are not metric, you can note and then inform members of the UKMA which shops you visited and they may be able to help you to get the TSA authorities after them. Don't feel sorry for them at all. They are cheating those who went through the expense and time to comply with the law. Those who cheat are not being fair to those who obey. > > >Are the deli counter scales in view or hidden from the view of the customer? > > > > > I never use the deli counter. You don't have to use it. Just walk buy and see what is going on. You can see how they price things. You can see if the scales are in full view of the customer and if they are metric only and you can get an idea how many ask for imperial and how many ask for metric. You can see how close the clerk is to filling what the customer asked for. Next time you are in the supermarket, check out the deli counter. Euric
