...might be because of out-sourcing.I doubt Tesco have an IT dept writing their webpages and web systems - it's like many things these days - a company 'borrows' the name while acting as a broker for buying over their websystem.With 'in-store' decisions you could see that as their 'domestic' workplace - a sort of 'native' version of the label. If you get my drift. Very few people are really pro-metric or pro-imperial, most just assume, take orders, or do what they are told.
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 17:24:45 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:47504] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least online) all metric I guess the main thing that puzzles me then is why they would omit any Imperial units on their web site. Guess they can't be bothered (or the web site is secretly pro-metric? ;-) Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 5, 2010 5:13:25 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:47501] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least online) all metric As far as I know I think Tesco online has always been metric (save for milk and pizzas perhaps). I've never said that the online bit is quite imperial - I've said the stores are - which continue to be where measures are a vocal aspect of a purchase. Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 04:30:10 +0000 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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 Get a new e-mail account with Hotmail - Free. Sign-up now. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now
