('or 8.8 ounces' as it says too).
That's the law, I'm afraid ;-)
(Actually I think it's a clean fraction of a tub - which makes their orders
easy - plus they don't want to post just 1/4 lb !)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [USMA:47516] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least
online) all metric
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:02:57 -0400
Except on that site, if you order something that has to be measured
(rather than counted), the offering is – a quarter of a kilogram!
Interesting.
Carleton
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen
Humphreys
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 20:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:47516] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least
online) all metric
"A
quarter of" is still used in sweet shops too (usually you get a more
accurate quarter than your friend got although if it falls over then it's
usually fine). I was in Tesco and my wife asked for a quarter of
something (can't remember what it was) and although the customer facing scale
showed grams the server went over but quoted the amount in ounces and asked if
it was ok! I think that's been mentioned before here but it does show how
things stick - even if the equipment changes. BTW - there is a online
sweetshop called http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [USMA:47511] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least
online) all metric
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:33:24 -0400
When I was there all the signage was in metric, but when my friend
Barbara (born in the USA, married an Englishman about 35 years ago, and moved
over there) went to the deli counter and ordered a “quarter” of ham, the clerk
dutifully measured out 125 g. (Apparently “quarter” was a UK term meaning
“a quarter pound”. Yes, 125 g is more than a quarter-pound but everyone
seems to accept that. Barbara shops every day so she doesn’t buy too much
at any one time. Must be the tiny refrigerators.)
Carleton
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen
Humphreys
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 17:57
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:47511] RE: Tesco grocery chain in the UK is (at least
online) all metric
'Waitrose' is an odd one. It's owned
by John Lewis Group. And as you say many of their supermarkets use metric
(although I cannot talk for all Waitrose's) however their upmarket department
store makes quite an effort to who imperial as well as metric. A
confusing message (if you take the politics of measurement a wee bit too far!!
;-) )
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
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