They are into everything now.
Credit cards
House Insurance
Pet insurance
Mortgages
And they will be opening stores that don't have food in them!
From: David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33054] RE: Tesco
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:32:17 +0100
And Tesco are about to get bigger in the non-food sector.
David King
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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
