In the USA, Giant Food in the Washington, DC area was taken over by Royal Ahold.
Giant does everything it can to convince its customers that metric does not exist - the shelf signs for 2 liter soda bottles show the quantity as "67.6 oz". Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Trusten Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 16:35 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:39247] RE: Tesco to enter US grocery market In Australia, I discovered Aldi, a German grocery chain that is growing on the limited-assortment concept (see http://aldi.us/). Starting in the U.S. over 30 years ago, they are now in 27 states, mostly in the Southeast. Consider also Stop & Shop, a New England chain now owned by Royal Ahold of the Netherlands. Hard to say to what extent the head office of a foreign-based company influences the local venues when it comes to metrication, but that influence couldn't hurt. Martin Vlietstra wrote: >>From what I have seen, Tesco do not have a view on metrication other than >how to make as much profit as possible while keeping the law off their >backs. > >They recently had a bad press in the United Kingdom when the Trading >Standards Office charged them with about a dozen dubious practices. Later >they were in contempt of court by refusing to honour a £5,000 (I think) >lawsuit that they lost in the Small Claims Court. The plaintiff called in >the bailiffs who marched into one of their stores on a Saturday morning and >roped of the liquor section until they paid. (Head Office was closed so >they lost a weekends' worth of profits from that section). > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Scott Hudnall >Sent: 07 August 2007 17:35 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:39244] Tesco to enter US grocery market > >Anyone know what Tesco's stance in metrication is? I heard a piece on NPR >this morning about Tesco planning to open 20 stores in California, Arizona, >and Nevada this year - then expand nationwide. > >Anyone care to speculate on how the presence of a European grocery chain in >the US may affect FMI's opposition to ammending the FPLA? > > > > > > > -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Blvd., Apt. 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA +1(432)528-7724 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://oleapothecary.blog.com
