>I've been hearing a lot of talk on the board >about how P&G is all metricated. To you I'd >ask, have you been to a supermarket lately?
Yes I have. There are several reasons I consider P&G to be our friend in this. They have more metric products than their competitors, at least of the products in my local store. In my grocery store, none of the laundry detergent is in metric containers except P&G's Tide, in the 2 kg or 855 g boxes, with the metric in large type. For liquid dishwashing soap, the metric is listed first, even for non-metric sizes. They are a lot more progressive than the other companies I see, and they will continue to metricate whenever they think it will make them more money. Since they market to five billion people, they will do what they can to introduce metric to the consumers in this country so they can simplify things. It is slower than *we* want, of course, but their primary motive is to make money. If it weren't, they wouldn't be worth $100 billion. The fact that they are willing to go out on a limb to introduce metric products should deserve our praise. They are even strongly supporting the metric-only labeling legislation. Carl
