2002-11-10 I'm sure they have some type of computer program that does all of the calculations and conversions. I doubt the person who makes the labels has any control over what units are chosen, or if it is even possible to select metric or not. I highly doubt one would have the ability to select FFU for some products and SI for others. It is either all FFU or all SI, but no mixture.
The program may be part of their inventory system. Whenever the price of a new product is entered, or an old price is changed, the program automatically prints a new unit price label. It is up to the store personnel to change or add the new label to the shelf. I can't see someone calculating unit prices by hand for thousands of products, especially with prices and products changing all of the time. What the store clerk told you was his way of blowing you off. He was probably ignorant on any issue brought to his attention. If not, why is he doing a no brain job of working in a grocery store? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-11-10 14:30 Subject: [USMA:23230] RE: It takes a lot of little changes > John Schweisthal wrote: "Any sensible person can just ignore the unit price > labels." > > That wasn't my point. In my conversation in the store, I pointed out that, > with the uniform bottle sizes, the unit pricing was redundant. > > However, I asked them, given that they were going to the trouble of doing > unit pricing anyway (which may have been required by law), why they were > going to the extra trouble of converting something that is wholly metric to > obsolete units. > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >
