Olive oil is almost always sold in metric sizes here, even from domestic 
producers.  All other vegetable oils are generally sold in round Customary 
sizes, or just plain odd sizes.
 
Under unit pricing, the merchant has a choice of what units to use, but it is 
supposed to be the same for all "like product."  The law leaves an exact 
definition of "like product" to the imagination, but certainly all olive oil, 
maybe all vegetable oil, in my view.  So the merchannt is non-compliant.

--- On Tue, 9/6/11, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:51088] olive oil
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 6:24 PM


I was at Whole Foods today (I'm visiting my aunt in Berkeley) and passed the 
olive oil. I saw a round liter can of oil, which I'm not used to seeing. The 
unit price on the shelf is in dollars per liter. Below it was a half-liter 
bottle, with the unit price in dollars per ounce. Huh?

Pierre
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