[USMA:28007] RE: Home Depot

[Chimpsarecute]

I had been to Mexico on business a few years ago and did have a chance to go to a typical hardware store and small convenience type stores.    In Mexico, it is common to find FFU drill bits, rope thickness in FFU sizes, FFU nails, and other objects that use FFU as trade names (inches only).  But, when you buy these items, you buy them by the metre or the kilogram.  There are no FFU scales.  Measuring tapes can be metric only or dual, but the sales are always done in metric units.   Prepackaged food products were only seen with metric on the labels, no FFU.  I did not see every product possibly manufactured, but what I saw was strictly metric.  Products though were a mixture of hard and soft conversions.  Heinz ketchup could be found in a 396 g bottle, a soft conversion of 14 oz US with no reference to the ounces.  A common size of coke would be a 600 mL, not the 591 mL seen in the US.  Gasoline/petrol was sold by the litre, but oil was sold in 946 mL plastic bottles, with no mention of quarts or gallons.   All highways and roads were makerd in metres, kilometres and kilometres per hour.  I saw nothing in miles or any other unit.  The cars I rode in, either Fords or Volkwagens had speedometers only in metric units; no dual scales.  On the TV, the weather reports used only degrees Celsius even when speaking of the US.  I didn't watch much TV, and what channel I seemed to stick with was TV Azteca.   Steel made in the mills is definitely made to FFU standards (inch thicknesses), but the lengths, widths (metres) and weights (kilograms) are all metric.    To summarise: things can be made to inch trade names, but are all sold by a metric amount.  When you ask for a given amount of something, such as length or weight, you ask for a metric quantity and pay for it based on a metric unit price.    Euric      ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Potts To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, 2003-12-27 23:37 Subject: [USMA:28006] RE: Home Depot As they took over an existing operation in Mexico -- Total HOME -- I assume they stuck with existing practice, which would mean metric. However, as they're probably selling a lot of the same imported products they sell in the U.S. and Canada, no doubt they have both metric and FFU measurements on them.   However, as Home Depot Mexico doesn't yet have its own web site (apparently) we can really only speculate. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of john mercer Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 19:33 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:28005] Home Depot I just did some searching and found out that Home Depot have some stores in Mexico.  I wonder if the products they sell in them are metric or FFU?  I don't know if they have a Mexican web site, and if they do would it be in Spanish? Could anyone find out if the products they sell are in FFU and if they have an english link on their web site in Mexico if they have one.  Thank you very much for all your help.