I forgot that I had registered online with Tesco's in the UK (one of the major 
grocery chains) and just received an email update from them. 

At least online I see that Tesco is 100% metric in all the web pages on their 
site that I took a look at in various departments. This includes the meat cuts 
packaged by Tesco itself in the butcher department. 

The only unfortunate part is that most of the symbols have errors, such as "G" 
for grams, Ml for "milliliters", etc. 

However, the nutritional information is all metric with proper symbols; the 
only (minor) exception is that energy, while given in kJ, is also given in 
parentheses afterwards in kcal (though at least this unit is less ambiguous 
than "Calories"). 

I wonder if the shelf labels and the labels at the deli counter inside the 
store follow the same pattern as the online store. Note that the online store 
targets Britons just as much as its in-store information does (i.e. the web 
site does not target residents of other countries). 

-- Ezra 

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