> Every other month? I do those things every time. > Well, except for the > one about auto fuel. The truth is I even offered to > buy a new hanging > scale with a dual kg / lb dial for a local coffee > house if they'd also > price their beans per kilogram and 100 grams. It > would have cost me a > couple hundred dollars, I'm sure. No take. >
Of course, if they list the price per kg, then the price per 100 g is quite obvious. That's one of the benefits of metric. On a somewhat similar note, I was shopping for a new television at Best Buy (an American electronics chain) with stores here in Canada. Televisions in Canada are advertised and sold using their diagonal screen length measured in inches. I was happily surprised to see that the small card displayed in front of each TV in the showroom listed the physical dimensions only in centimetres. Stephen Gallagher
