That is great news. Next time I'm at my local IKEA (College Park, Maryland) I'll check it out. (I've been to your store, too; a friend lives in Royersford.)
Unfortunately, the product description tags are all in colonial units, though of course the numbers are completely random because the furniture is actually built to rational metric sizes. Just another case of dumbing things down for the USA ... Carleton -----Original Message----- From: Michael Palumbo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 20:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:39450] RE: Cheers for IKEA! United States. The store in question is in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Cheers, Michael. Carleton MacDonald wrote: > In what country is this? > > Carleton > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Michael Palumbo > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 16:08 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:39448] Cheers for IKEA! > > My local Ikea store has gone all-metric with their shopping carts/trolleys. > > Attached are two pictures to demonstrate. The cart handles used to > previously state, "Max. 130 kg/285 pounds". > > At my last visit, I noticed an employee changing the cart handle > inserts. She informed me that the new ones only had kilograms on them. > > A picture is attached of a new cart, in progress of her changing the > sleeving. On the right side of the sleeve it says only, "130 kg max.", > no pounds anywhere. > > -Mike
