Hey, talk to half the US state highway departments. Idiots. cm
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 18:20 To: U.S. Metric Association 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" >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.3 - Release Date: 2005-05-31 > >
