When I was in Canada some years ago, I encountered pound pricing only on goods that were prepackaged, like apples and potatoes. You couldn't ask for specific pound amounts and even though the "per pound" price was displayed on an advertisement, the products were not sold that way.
However, where you had to ask for a weighed amount, it was in grams and kilograms and the advertising was per 100 grams. I believe property deeds in Canada are all metric unless they are really old, as surveying is 100 % metric. If you have your property surveyed it will be done in metres and officially recorded that way. With the display in yards and feet, there has to be some cheating, betting on the fact that people won't compare the advertised figures with the surveyed amounts. With measurements officially in one system, it is a sellers dream to advertise in a non-supported unit allowing a little cheating, as long as no one bothers to check. Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: Remek Kocz To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Monday, 2007-03-05 07:20 Subject: [USMA:38069] Re: Meteric Canada I go to Toronto a few times a year, and I haven't seen kilograms in proper use. Deli meat is priced per 100 g, but everything else is per pound, with kg in parenthesis or in smaller type. The scales at registers do, however, work in kg only. Land is advertised only in acres, house areas only in square feet. Clearances in parking garages are in feet-in first, with meters in parenthesis. I think only a couple of government parking garages had meters only on their clearance displays. The use of Celsius is almost exclusive, with some odd bank displays here and there flipping between C and F. Remek ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/
