Same with my Safeway in Virginia. They actually took them away when they
revamped the store and replaced them with pound only scales, I complained to
the manager and all the dual unit scales were replaced.
Mike Payne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 19 January 2009 02:35
Subject: [USMA:42361] Re: Is there any literature on metrication in the US
aimed at immigrants?
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.
