Apart from the risks involved in annoying customers and potential customers (who will walk if you cheat them) my belief is actually that both imperial and metric should be shown.
My thoughts on pre-packed stuff are somewhat more relaxed - because I only know of one person in the world who buys packed stuff based solely on the measure inside it. Most people will buy a 'large', 'small', 'medium' pack of Corn Flakes for example. I can't walk into Tesco and demand 4 ounces or 200 grammes of Cornflakes, although I suppose I could go in there with a pair of scissors and use their own scale :-D But, yes I believe in a diverse Europe, not a straight jacketed grey one - and I'd support, for example, something that marks out Italy as being 'different' should that 'difference' come under attack where no problems or issues ever existed in Italy *because* of that difference in the past. Try not to allow Jon Schweisthall or Lee Roberts (The Jez & Ken show) to influence you with their stalking/hero worship attitudes towards me. > From: [email protected] > Subject: [USMA:43959] Diversity > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:35:07 -0500 > > > Steve, > > Diversity of units of measurement (e.g. many choices by vendors for units of > volume or capacity) clearly facilitates confusion in trade and commerce, and > deceit of consumers in the market place. > > I'm astonished that you do not openly accept this fact. > > Gene. > > Steve wrote: > ... > My view is that a healthy Europe is a diverse one - and imperial measures > marks us, in the UK, as having one such diversity. > ... > _________________________________________________________________ Free photo editing software from Windows Live . Try it now! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665240/direct/01/
