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From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:47507] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least online) all metric Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 17:31:38 -0400 It would be interesting to explore the website, but tesco.co.uk requires you to sign up for their frequent shopper card first, and they may not be interested in someone from Maryland, USA ... Last year when I was over there I didn’t go to Tesco’s, as the two major stores in Kenilworth that we went to were Sainsbury’s and Waitrow’s. Both were quite nice indeed, and better than most USA stores (Waitrow’s was at a slightly higher level) and the only place I saw anything in non-metric was on the bottles of milk. The beer selection in both could be described as “died and gone to heaven.” Carleton From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Humphreys Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 08:13 To: U.S. Metric Association 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/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now
