Can't Canadian manufacturers make 4 L paint for the US market? Is there a rule against it? Maybe if they did, US consumers would see they are getting more and buy the 4 L size over the 3.78 L size. This would force the US manufactures to up-size to 4 L too, no?
Dan ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:28:58 AM Subject: [USMA:38136] Re: Label Typo On 10-Mar-07, at 23:40 , Daniel Jackson wrote: It is possible it is a down-sized product, not an error. Didn't Canada have a 4 litre size for many years? When did they change to 3.78 L? Dan I guess the best solution will be to write and ask them if their label is correct or a typo. There were periods when Canadian paint manufacturers were selling hard metric sizes. But the advent of free trade between Canada and the US brought sent many products in both directions across the border. In the case of paint, US manufacturers didn't have to create a metric sized product for Canada, especially when Canada's market is just 10% the size of the US market. All they had to do was to put Canadian compliant labels on their standard U.S. gallon cans. As you can imagine we also have small 946 mL cans of paint too. Over time, Canadian paint manufacturers switched to 3.78 L primarily so that they could manufacture paint for the US market. ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:42:15 PM Subject: [USMA:38122] Label Typo Today, in Toronto, I purchased a can of US made Benjamin Moore paint. It is a standard sized , 1 U.S. gallon can of paint, although the label is designed for the Canadian market, as the wording is bilingual English and French, and the volume is listed solely in litres. There is an obvious typographical error on the label, in that it says the volume is 3.67 L, instead of the more proper 3.78 L. My guess is that rather than being a miscalculation, the label designer, or whomever actually input the label design, had their fingers on the wrong keys and instead of hitting the 78 they mistakenly hit 67. No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
