I reprinted part of Terry's experience to the metricsucks site. I did not use Terry's name or indicate where Terry's repose came from, other then to mention that Terry is an aquaintance.
Here was the response of one imperialist, who insisted in the past that Tesco's "main scales" were in imperial only. > I mentioned to a Uk aquaintance about > Steve's claims that Tescos uses imperial > scales. They do indeed > Seems Steve has been doing some fibbing. Here we go! > Here was his response: > I visited Tescos just now. As far as I could > see, they are acting within the law. > 1. Scales > Their point of sale scales are metric only. > They provide additional scales > near the fruit and vegetables for customer > use. These are dual unit. Indeed - they have -ahem- LB & OZ on them -this is what we commonly call imperial. Thus I was telling the truth. > 2. Price indications. > a) Variable quantity goods such as fruit, > vegetables, cheese and other deli produce > have dual unit price indications. The metric > price is usually above the imperial price > but in all other respects they appear to be > equal > prominence. This is a lie - I will explain later but prominance is to the LB price > b) Fixed quantity (i.e. prepacked) goods > have prices each and also unit prices e.g. > '79 p per kg'. I only saw metric only unit > prices for prepacks but I didn't check them > all. All tesco branded packed food is dual. You lie again > 3. Adverts > Advertised prices were imperial only or dual > unit. Where advertised prices were dual > unit, the imperial price was much more > prominent. Advertised > prices were often used in such a way that > they looked like price indications. Wow! Say what? > Selected examples > ---------------------- > I was looking for dishwasher salt. There > were various packs with prices each and unit > price per kg. There was no imperial unit > price indication. I looked for the lowest > price per kg and chose that. It was a bag > labelled '3 kg' and had no imperial value on > it. Those items are indeed in metric. I'd rather eat chips than dishwasher powder! > I was looking for olives at the delhi > counter. They all had dual unit prices (per > 100 g, per quarter). Nice one! > Me: "A quarter of those olives > please" > Server: (metric-only scales display 108 g) > "Just under. Is that OK?" > Me:. "How do I know it is a > quarter?" > Server: "Because a quarter is 113 > g" > Me: "How do you know that" > Server: "Because it is written > here". Points to handwritten note stuck > on her side of scale but invisible to me. Did she do a "wanker" sign as you walked away? Ask for CCTV footage - you may be suprised > I asked her what she would do if I asked for > 5 ounces and she said that she would simply > look at the note. I asked her why it was > handwritten and she said that the other > scales had printed notes but this one must > have fallen off. She also said that they got > training in such details. She knew from her > training that a quarter was 4 ounces but it > may have also been on the note. Obvious? > She printed the price and stuck it on the > container of olives. It was metric only and > said: > 'PRICE/kg �8.50' > 'kg 0.108' > 'PRICE TO PAY �0.92' Correct - what did you aske for again? > Apples had large notices on the containers > advertising the price per lb without a > metric price. The price indications just > near the containers were dual unit. Bingo! SOme truth! > I chose some bananas. These had dual unit > prices. I can't remember if they had price > 'adverts'. They were then weighed and priced > at the checkout in metric units only. I > asked the cashier how I would know how many > pounds it would be. He was initially > confused by my question Can't you blame him? > and said that the > price was done automatically by the scales > and the till computer. I questioned him > further saying that I needed to know how > many pounds weight it was. He said something > like "a kilogram is one pound, > innit?". No - its about 2.2lb > Hope that helps. This will help: www.tesco.com Corporate section Press releases Read the item about Tesco reverting to imperial. Then come back and call me a liar!
