John. The example you show below indicates how little thought is given
to setting metric unit sizes and packaging of materials for space saving and
transportation to help reduce costs.
Kirkland was the only example with common sense.
Thanks for raising the issue. You show how far we must go to become
metric.
People buy grocery products mostly by visual size comparison unless a
specific size is needed for a reciepe.
Regards, Stan
On Sep 14, 2011 4:55 PM, "John M. Steele" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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> --- On Sun, 9/11/11, John M. Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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
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> Looking at Ozarka's website, they seem to mark correctly in the net
contents area, but they seem to lack a measurements units policy.
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> http://www.ozarkawater.com/#/products/our_products
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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.
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