In regards to the dual pricing in supermarkets, the labels are printed.
In regards to small shops, I was only referring to food shops that sell things like fruit and veg, and market stalls that sell the same. I can see the prices displayed as I walk past, I don't have to enter the shops, here in the UK the grocers are always open at the front, with everything they sell often spilling out onto the pavement, with price labels stuck into every section. I can see what their pricing policy is and I don't even have to go into the shop to see it. I also think it is unhealthy to buy fruit and veg from a shop that has its food goods right next to a busy road with lots of pollution, i.e. about 2 metres from where the traffic is. I will check out the deli counter next time I am in a supermarket.
David King
MightyChimp wrote:
----- 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.
toIn your community do all shops now use metric scales? Could you report
I never visit the small shops that sell food, I only use supermarkets,us the status of the shops you visit?
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.
customer?Are the deli counter scales in view or hidden from the view of the
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
