Thanks Scott.
[And I agree with you about my (mis)use of "reversion". After posting,
it occurred to me later that I was probably stretching things by
borrowing that term from the highway-construction debacle.
Of course, IKEA -- unlike state highway departments -- wasn't WOMBAT
to begin with; I just think of any switch away from metric (which
is what the original poster believes happened at his IKEA) as
"going backwards". :-)
]
Bruce
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was about 3 weeks ago.
I don't think "reversion" is an appropriate term here. Ikea is a Swedish
company that entered North American markets. Amost all of their items
are designed and labelled in hard-metric units. Imperial units are
sometimes listed as secondary. Some of the larger display signs are
Imperial, but the labelling is (and probably will remain) metric.
On Monday, October 02, 2006, at 11:43AM, Bruce Hebbard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scott,
Out of curiousity, how recent was your "last visit there"?
The original poster [USMA:37317] implied there was a (same-store)
reversion "recently". (My observations [USMA:37321] are [weakly]
consistent with that.)
It would be nice to figure out if a reversion is in progress, and maybe
provide feedback to try to, well, reverse the reversion. (I imagine the
display signs in question are replaced frequently, and they seem to listen
to [or at least solicit] customer feedback, and are certainly
image-conscious...)
Bruce
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Ikeas here in the San Francisco bay area are predominantly metric, with
the disposable 1 m measuring tapes with cm on one side and metric on the
other. On my last visit there, most of the people I noticed were using the cm
side of the tape. Most were immigrants - but a few were not :-)
--
Scott Hudnall
San Francisco, CA USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
