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I was thinking about the remarks I've read lately
on this list about some of the strange "metric" packaging that still appears in
Canada because they are simply soft metric conversion of US Customary sizes and
the persistence of Imperial pricing and advertising of loose goods in
Canada.
Seems to me that when the US FPLA is amended
to allow metric-only labelling, a lot of US companies will move fairly quickly
to metric-only labels and even rational metric package sizes. (Many have done so
already in anticipation of the amendment.) This will give Canada a further nudge
towards complete metrication by allowing all prepackaged goods in Canada to have
rational metric-only labels.
If metric-only and metric-rational labeling also
happens here in the US with pre-packaged goods that are often also sold as loose
goods (e.g. pre-packaged meats, pre-packaged fruits and vegetables), maybe that
will help encourage Canadian stores to switch to metric-only advertising and
pricing of loose goods, too, given that the loose goods will often be sold near
pre-pacakged versions of those same goods.
Wishful thinking on my part or plausible
assessment? What do folks think?
Ezra
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