I was at Costco yesterday. They had three sizes of Ice Mountain water: *500 mL (correctly marked in net contents but "half liter" on wrapper) *20 fl oz ( roughly 600 mL, 591 mL to split hairs) *700 mL Is it necessary to have three sizes this closely spaced? The unit price of the 20 oz and 700 mL were about 50% higher because of a "sport cap." The Kirkland brand was only in 500 mL bottles (all of the above were correctly dual marked in net contents area, various statements on over-wrapper.
--- On Sun, 9/11/11, John M. Steele <[email protected]> wrote: From: John M. Steele <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [USMA:51117] RE: decimal submultiple of a liter To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011, 3:19 PM Looking at Ozarka's website, they seem to mark correctly in the net contents area, but they seem to lack a measurements units policy. http://www.ozarkawater.com/#/products/our_products They list sizes of: 500 mL, 700 mL, 1 L, 1.5 L, 3 L 8 oz, 20 oz, 1, 2.5, 3, and 5 gallon. Using one primary unit or the other, I think a smaller number of sizes would need to be offered. The 20 oz seems unnecessary with 500 mL and 700 mL sizes, and I question whether both 3 L and 1 gallon, or 2.5 and 3 gallons are needed. --- On Sat, 9/10/11, Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: From: Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51117] RE: decimal submultiple of a liter To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, September 10, 2011, 11:25 PM Today we had a bell ringers' meeting in Frederick, Maryland. The person whose church it was obtained some bottled water from the Giant Eagle store. The bottles had the usual 16.9 fl oz stuff, but after it was not "half liter" or ".5 liter" but, instead, 500 mL. That was as refreshing as the water itself. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Trusten Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 00:08 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:51109] decimal submultiple of a liter "HALF LITER" used to be the language on the wrapper. This Ozarka package of 24 500 mL bottles says it differently. Taken at Albertson's supermarket in Midland, Texas, USA.
