Seriously, I would call the State weights & measures inspectors. The first two are exceptionally misleading as the cans are labelled only in milliliters. You would have to know that a quart is 946 mL to know you are being ripped off. The last one is dual, and slightly more people might know that 28.5 fl oz is not a quart. But it is still deceptive.
I assume the cans contain what is marked so the manufacturer is probably legal. The shelf edge sticker is misleading and that is the store. (Does paint fall under UPLR? Is the metric only marking on 2 cans one of the first usages of permissive-metric-only under the UPLR? Too bad that with the store's error, the effect is to cheat the customer.) ________________________________ From: Michael Payne <metricmik...@gmail.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@ColoState.EDU> Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 4:33:42 PM Subject: [USMA:50616] Reduced standard sized I was amazed when I went to buy paint today that the supposed Quart container was no longer a quart of paint, I think the can is the same size, it's just less inside. A US quart is 946 mL, these cans ranged from 840 mL to 916 mL to 931 mL. Most people don't realize they are getting less. Notice the shelf label still states Quart of whatever paint! Shortchanged? Mike Payne
