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.
It's the point of sale part that is in imperial.
If I go into tesco I could see that onions were XX/lb - stick them on a
scale and choose a coupe of LBs worth.
The stuff "behind the scenes" can be in any unit they wish - so that needn't
change - it can stay in metric.
It's only information that got converted back (with the choice of metric
still offered)
So is Tesco the only store that changed all their metric equipment back to
imperial or were there others?
Point of sale information changed - not the equipment
Some others did too - Bejam and Somerfield spring to mind. Sainsbury went
"totally metric" for a while and then brought back dual labels. But further
than that I cannot comment since I haven't been there for a while.
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?
Tesco's pre-packed stuff shows both systems. Other companies either do or
don't (ie Tesco don't just stock Tesco produce)
The change seemed to be as short as a week as its only labels and stickers
and packs.
