John: You seem to use a ton of verbiage to state the bloody obvious.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On >Behalf Of kilopascal >Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 12:04 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:23233] RE: It takes a lot of little changes > > >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] >> >
