No Dan. I must re-iterate for the benefit of non-UK posters here. Tesco did
not revert to imperial.
They took advantage of the legal option to display dual prices (price/kg +
price/lb) and started displaying large posters with imperial only prices for
promotion on some products (but always showed a metric unit price near the
products themselves).
They still weigh and sell in metric. They use metric scales at the deli
counter and the till receipts are metric only. They also operate in metric
behind the scenes (inventory etc)
With pre-packed items they put dual weight (g/oz) on some of their own-brand
chilled food products and put dual price labels on the packaged cuts of meat
and fish. All other chilled food products (vast majority in fact) are as the
original manufacturers label, i.e. in grams, they don't modify them.
Everywhere else they are metric except perhaps for clothing (Tesco aren't
just a supermarket, they're into practically everything which is why they
are so big).
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:19 PM
Subject: [USMA:33047] RE: freight in UK
Wouldn't reintroducing imperial after going metric be kind of expensive?
If you spent maybe a few million to change your scales and update your
inventory software, then you decide to change it all back seems the kind
of business practice that puts a company like Tesco out of business, not
increase their profits.
So is Tesco the only store that changed all their metric equipment back to
imperial or were there others? Do they also sell pre-packaged goods in
imperial too or are those still metric? How long did it take them to
revert as they couldn't have changed all the equipment in all stores in
one day?
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 2005-06-01 05:16
Subject: [USMA:33036] RE: freight in UK
You mean like when Tesco 'sales figures' went up after the publicity
surrounding there decision to re-introduce imperial.
It certainly worked for me!
Well, add to that the fact that I moved home and the nearest hypermarket
is under 2 miles away and is called "Tesco" ;-)
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33024] RE: freight in UK
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:25:43 +0100
When a company makes a change to its look or feel they sometimes send
out a
survey.
I've had loads of these.
I suspect that they don't do a similar thing with imperial measures
being removed because despite most people still using them in day to day
life they feel that they "know what's best for us" on this one.
Or maybe they use a more tried and tested way of doing "customer surveys"
It's known in the trade as "Sales Figures"
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