The local Safeway has small scales in the produce department that measure in both lbs and kg.
Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Darfus Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 14:06 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42355] Re: Is there any literature on metrication in the US aimed at immigrants? On 18 Jan 2009, at 09:39, Pierre Abbat wrote: > It appears that the immigrants try to conform to what they think is > the way we > do it. Is there any literature aimed at people who come here already > knowing > metric, but haven't lived through the introduction of metric in the > 1970s, > empowering them to push Americans to metricate? > > Pierre I think you're right in suggesting that immigrants, most of whom are inherently from metricated countries, feel it's not their place to complain about the way things are done here regarding measurement. The thought of producing some kind of a handout to be given to immigrants in the grocery store has occurred to me. This could be produced in an attractive way, written in multiple languages, and would ask the patrons to request of store management the posting of metric pricing signs in the produce, deli, and meats departments for example. The stores would also have to be equipped with switchable scales, as all the grocery stores I visit use scales that are only capable of displaying "lbs". I've written to the stores I shop at and my request has been summarily ignored, but they probably would take notice if they received many similar requests. I've even offered to buy a new dual unit hanging scale for a local coffee roaster/store if they'd price their beans by the kilo or 100g in addition to their lbs. Again there was no response.
