On Sunday 19 Dec 2004 08:10, Pat Naughtin wrote: > Dear Ezra and David, > > Do you know if Tesco buys in pounds, stones, quarters, hundredweights, and > tons � or do they buy in kilograms and tonnes and then dumb these down for > the lucky punters.
Wholesale sales have been in metric for many, many years. It's only 'at the sharp end' where the 'average shopper' gets involved that there has been this reticence. It's been a long time since I saw stones of potatoes (I believe these had disappeared even before metric packs were permitted) and I had completely forgotten about quarters. Sacks (of potatoes, coal, etc.) have been metric for the last couple of decades, to my knowledge. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk
