Just like I said, I read it somewhere. Probably in a newspaper or news
magazine.
Jim
Paul Trusten wrote:
Jim, you've got to tell us how you learned about the olive.
Yes, people can round it up mentally to 400 mL, but the difference
between receiving 399 mL and receiving 400 mL is...metrication.
At some point, Coke went from a 473 mL container to 500 mL.
Paul Trusten
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
www.metric.org
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+1(432)528-7724
On May 15, 2010, at 22:09, "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]>
wrote:
I feel like playing Devil's Advocate tonight. Humor me.
Perhaps this is related to the probability that most of the very folks
who actually read labels would just round that up mentally to 400 mL.
But by not putting in that extra 1 mL, Coca-Cola has saved 1 mL out of
400 mL, or 0.25 %. Now, if you multiply the sales of this size
container by 0.25 %, you probably would get a rather large number.
That's extra profit.
It reminds me of something I read some time ago, back in the days when
airlines provided passengers with food. Delta (I think it was) decided
to reduce by one the number of olives in the salads on its dinner
trays. Seems silly, but they saved quite a bit of money that way.
Jim
Paul Trusten wrote:
Yes, it's a soft conversion, but, DANG!
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www.metric.org
[email protected]
+1(432)528-7724
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