And Tesco are about to get bigger in the non-food sector.
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Philip S Hall wrote:
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
