Well, I attempted to do Michigan. Unit pricing is voluntary here. Various stores do a POOR job of uniformity of the unit of measure for different brands and sizes within a commodity. Apparently the only recall is to complain to the store management.
An attempt to find Michigan's law regarding voluntary unit pricing didn't turn up such a law. I found two articles, both about two years old, asserting that NO law regarding how to show unit pricing exists in Michigan. Links provided: http://www.wxyz.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/unit-pricing-pitfalls-the-call-for-laws-to-make-them-consistent-and-mandatory http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/why-its-so-hard-figure-out-best-deals-groceries Michigan has a scanner law requiring shelf edge stickers or individual stickers on each item showing total price and requiring consistency with the scanner price at checkout. This turns up thousands of false hits on "unit pricing" but is a different use of the terms. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: John M. Steele <jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Cc: "kenneth.butc...@nist.gov" <kenneth.butc...@nist.gov>; "dsef...@nist.gov" <dsef...@nist.gov> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:21 AM Subject: [USMA:53749] Re: What do they Mandate? Eugene, May I suggest an alternate approach? Many States also allow/encourage it on a voluntary basis. In any State in which it is commonly used, it would be nice to know if the standard is that of the UUPR (Uniform Unit Pricing Regulation) contained in Handbook 130, or the State has established exceptions either tighter or looser than H130. Cutting and Pasting applicable sections of UUPR from 2014 H130: Section 2. Terms for Unit Pricing The declaration of the unit price of a particular commodity in all package sizes offered for sale in a retail establishment shall be uniformly and consistently expressed in terms of: (a) Price per kilogram or 100 g, or price per pound or ounce, if the net quantity of contents of the commodity is in terms of weight. (b) Price per liter or 100 mL, or price per dry quart or dry pint, if the net quantity of contents of the commodity is in terms of dry measure or volume. (c) Price per liter or 100 mL, or price per gallon, quart, pint, or fluid ounce, if the net quantity of contents of the commodity is in terms of liquid volume. (d) Price per individual unit or multiple units if the net quantity of contents of the commodity is in terms of count. (e) Price per square meter, square decimeter, or square centimeter, or price per square yard, square foot, or square inch, if the net quantity of contents of the commodity is in terms of area. Section 4. Pricing (a) The unit price shall be to the nearest cent when a dollar or more. (b) If the unit price is under a dollar, it shall be listed: (1) to the tenth of a cent; or (2) to the whole cent. The retail establishment shall have the option of using (b)(1) or (b)(2), but shall not implement both methods. The retail establishment shall accurately and consistently use the same method of rounding up or down to compute the price to the whole cent. Section 6. Uniformity (a) If different brands or package sizes of the same consumer commodity are expressed in more than one unit of measure (e.g., soft drinks are offered for sale in 2 L bottles and 12 fl oz cans), the retail establishment shall unit price the items consistently. (b) When metric units appear on the consumer commodity in addition to other units of measure, the retail establishment may include both units of measure on any stamps, tags, labels, signs, or lists. On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 10:33 AM, "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu> wrote: Unit Pricing is mandated in nine States (+DC). If "Unit Price" is defined as Dollars (or cents) per unit of measurement, in retail marketplaces, what are the units of measurement prescribed, or limited to, or allowed, if any, in each of these ten jurisdictions, respectively? Answers to that question requires the searching of various laws and regulations. Who is willing to help search any of these ten jurisdictions? Eugene Mechtly
