Keep marketing principles in mind. The number 1000 is larger than the
number 1. So 1000 g probably "sounds" larger (at least to an ad writer)
than 1 kg.
Jim
On 2013-06-03 10:07, Paul Trusten wrote:
Good point about 1 kg! Y'all may not believe this, but the marketers of
this product either may not be aware that there are 1000 g in 1 kg, or
they may not trust their customers to know. I once had a PHARMACY
TECHNICIAN ask me how many milligrams there are in a gram!
I sense that basic knowledge of the simple internal workings of the
metric system are tacitly discouraged in American society. We don't have
very much metric education at all, except perhaps the kind that treats
metric as a measurement anomaly and discounts its importance.
Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist
Vice President
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland, Texas USA
www.metric.org <http://www.metric.org>
+1(432)528-7724
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On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:50, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Of course, this makes me wonder why they didn't just put 1 kg.
Ezra
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*Subject: *[USMA:52846] Re: FAGE lowfat yogurt new 1000g container.
Attached image shows FAGE Greek Yogurt 1000g container.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com <http://MetricPioneer.com> 503-428-4917
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From: Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]
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Subject: [USMA:52845] FAGE lowfat yogurt new 1000g container.
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]
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> Hello everyone. The other day while I went grocery shopping I discovered
> FAGE (pronouced fayeh) brand yogurt sold in 1000g (35.3 oz) container
> instead of 32 oz or 680g (24oz) of the other brands of yogurt. This is
> something because usually dairy products in California are sold in USC
> amounts by California Weights and Measures guidelines. I do not know if
> there has been a change in milk shall be sold in pints, quarts, gallon,
> guidelines.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Edward B.
>
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