Looking back at the website www.costco.co.uk <http://www.costco.co.uk/> I see they now include mass in grams which was previously absent for the 18 oz steaks.
Mike > On 21 Mar 2015, at 07:48, Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > They also have 5 litre containers of olive oil – no mention of gallons, > quarts, pints of floz on the label at all. > > The bottom line is that under UK law, the only permitted supplementary units > are the pound, ounce, and the [imperial] gallon, quart, pint or floz. US > floz are tolerated because they give the customer “good” measure (ie 5 US > floz is a little bigger than 5 imperial floz)m but if the US gallon, quart of > pint are used, the customer is being short-changed by 20%. > > Another inconvenience from COSTCO and any other company that imports US-made > mini-safes is that US letter-sized documents can fit into such safes quite > comfortably, but is is a squeeze to get A4 sized documents into such safes. > > From: John M. Steele [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 21 March 2015 00:15 > To: [email protected]; U.S. Metric Association > Subject: Re: [USMA:54653] RE: Costco UK > > What is odd about that, Martin, is the US label uses the US spelling, liter. > They made a special but wrong label for the UK. > > From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 3:18 PM > Subject: [USMA:54653] RE: Costco UK > > I checked their website. It complies with UK law. However the product label > in the website: > http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_6,cos_6.3,cos_6.3.1/131511 > > <http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_6,cos_6.3,cos_6.3.1/131511> > does not - it is illegal to display US gallons, quarts and pints on any > goods that are sold in the UK – if gallons, quarts ort pints are used as a > supplementary unit, they MUST be imperial units. > > It is of course possible that the Costco site detects where you are living > and chooses its text accordingly. I live in the UK. > > Martin > > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf > Of Ressel, Howard R (DOT) > Sent: 20 March 2015 17:31 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:54652] RE: Costco UK > > Just wondering why you didn’t ask her to change the web site to read kg or > grams which, if I understand (but I may be wrong since I’m in the States) is > the only legal way to show it in the UK. I wonder how she would have > responded to that. > > Howard R. Ressel > Project Design Engineer > > New York State Department of Transportation > > From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf > Of Michael Payne > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 12:25 PM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:54651] Costco UK > >> >> Hi Michael, >> >> Thank you for your email. >> >> Each 18oz steak is approximately 510g and so the total weight of this pack >> is 2.04kg. >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Maureen >> Customer Care Team (UK) >> >> On 20 March 2015 at 15:31, Michael Payne wrote: >> http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_6,cos_6.4,cos_6.4.1/166834 >> >> <http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_6,cos_6.4,cos_6.4.1/166834> >> >> We use grams in the UK, what is the mass of this item in grams? >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Michael Payne >> >> >> > > > >
