Today, December 19, OWM of NIST posted Special Publication 1181. The title is “Unit Pricing Guide”; “A Best Practice Approach to Unit Pricing”
On Page 9 is the statement: “The following units and these only must be used." Metric Units of Measurement are accepted, the foundation of “Best Practice." In addition to the SI Units, many units from outside the SI are also accepted. Some of these are: price per ounce, and price per pound; and price per fluid ounce, per pint, per quart, and per gallon. In my opinion inclusion of non-decimally related units are a lost opportunity to make unit pricing, more independent of package sizes. Decimal multiples only (1, 10, 100, 1000) in the denominators of unit prices would make value comparisons much easier for consumers. Our currency is decimal based, why is the marketing of consumer commodities not yet completely decimal based? Eugene Mechtly
