A few years ago the British Trading Standards Office were preparing to "throw the book" at Tesco in respect of a number of sharp practices. A report in the "Sunday Times" listed a dozen or so, but failure to use metrication was not explicitly listed. I have a feeling that this was excluded from the "public" list as this might well be picked up by the anti-metric brigade to say that Tesco were "jolly good fellows - look how they are giving Brussels the 'two-fingered salute'"
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 05 June 2010 05:30 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:47499] Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least online) all metric 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
