Haven't seen those in NY state yet, but that's still small consolation in light of the fact that the beverage industry has standardized around the 20 oz bottle as the most convenient size.
BTW, an interesting bit of trivia I picked up at the dentist: Americans drink 56 gallons of soft drinks per person per year. Now even to the most die-hard USC supporter this doesn't say as much as expressing it in liters to get the real sense of the problem: 212 L, or 106 2-L bottles. So that's about a 2 liter of pop every 3 days for each person. Remek On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Kilopascal <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in the supermarket today and saw for the first time the new 1.25 L > Coke bottles selling for 99 cents. They are as tall as the 2 L, but > obviously thinner. Pepsi products, including Dr Pepper & Mountain Dew, have > introduced a new 1.5 L size also selling for 99 cents. > > I heard rumours that these new sizes are going to replace the 2 L bottle. > We can all be grateful that when they down-sized they stayed with litres. > They could have reverted to quarts. It is funny though that the sizes are > metric for amounts >1 L and in ounces for sizes <1 L. I know there was a > 500 mL bottle, but that disappeared a long time ago. > > I wonder what the logic of this is. > > Packaging and labeling products in metric only is a not enough. The metric > sizes must be round numbers. > > What "market forces" lead Coke and Pepsi to reduce their bottle size to > 1.25 L & 1.50 L respectively? > > [USMA:50595] Re: Fwd: ASDA pound campaign > > Stan Doore > Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:14:44 -0700 > > Packaging and labeling products in metric only (with English > unit in Parens as an option) will let industry know that conversion is > serious. Cookbooks and other printed materials will change very quickly thru > market forces. Now, there is no reason to change. > > Stan Doore > >
