.....Wishful thinking on my part or plausible assessment? What do folks think?This indicate a positive trend to THINK METRIC process in US & Canada. It is not only the common man BUT the legislative process must also startMetric move or else be ready to be left behind in a 'confused state of dual policy'. May be FFU-ites are still smiling.
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From: "Ezra Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:31249] FPLA amendment will help Canada finish metrication? Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:16:19 -0700
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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