The store is probably in violation but you would have to determine what your State says. The Uniform Unit Pricing Regulation is national, modal legislation, but each State can adopt it or write their own. The UUPR says "The declaration of the unit price of a particular commodity in all package sizes offered for sale in a retail establishment shall be uniformly and consistently expressed in terms of:" and then goes on to name the allowed choices. All brands and sizes of a given commodity are supposed to be consistent; otherwise the information is completely useless.
--- On Fri, 9/23/11, Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: From: Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51132] confusing shelf stickers To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 23, 2011, 1:30 AM Hi: In a Safeway, I noticed the Laura Scudders peanut butter shelf stickers. One size shows: 16 OZ(454 g) $4.39 Ea. 27.5¢ / ounce. Larger size, same product: 26 OZ(737 g) $6.09 Ea $3.75/pound Quickly, Which one is cheaper per unit? You need to carry a calculator in your pocket for this. Let's see now, multiplying 27.5¢ per ounce by 16 changes it to 440¢ /pound or $4.40 / pound. So the larger size is cheaper per unit. If they used only metric, you could just move a decimal point and quickly know which was cheaper. I wonder if keeping the old colonial measures is one way of confusing the consumer and thus getting more revenue. Note: The grams showed on the jar label and not on the shelf stickers. ..Parker
