They also have 5 litre containers of olive oil – no mention of gallons, quarts, pints of floz on the label at all.
The bottom line is that under UK law, the only permitted supplementary units are the pound, ounce, and the [imperial] gallon, quart, pint or floz. US floz are tolerated because they give the customer “good” measure (ie 5 US floz is a little bigger than 5 imperial floz)m but if the US gallon, quart of pint are used, the customer is being short-changed by 20%. Another inconvenience from COSTCO and any other company that imports US-made mini-safes is that US letter-sized documents can fit into such safes quite comfortably, but is is a squeeze to get A4 sized documents into such safes. From: John M. Steele [mailto:jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: 21 March 2015 00:15 To: vliets...@btinternet.com; U.S. Metric Association Subject: Re: [USMA:54653] RE: Costco UK What is odd about that, Martin, is the US label uses the US spelling, liter. They made a special but wrong label for the UK. _____ From: Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 3:18 PM Subject: [USMA:54653] RE: Costco UK I checked their website. It complies with UK law. However the product label in the website: http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_6,cos_6.3,cos_6.3.1/131511 does not - it is illegal to display US gallons, quarts and pints on any goods that are sold in the UK – if gallons, quarts ort pints are used as a supplementary unit, they MUST be imperial units. It is of course possible that the Costco site detects where you are living and chooses its text accordingly. I live in the UK. Martin From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Ressel, Howard R (DOT) Sent: 20 March 2015 17:31 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:54652] RE: Costco UK Just wondering why you didn’t ask her to change the web site to read kg or grams which, if I understand (but I may be wrong since I’m in the States) is the only legal way to show it in the UK. I wonder how she would have responded to that. Howard R. Ressel Project Design Engineer New York State Department of Transportation From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 12:25 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:54651] Costco UK Hi Michael, Thank you for your email. Each 18oz steak is approximately 510g and so the total weight of this pack is 2.04kg. Kind regards, Maureen Customer Care Team (UK) On 20 March 2015 at 15:31, Michael Payne wrote: http://www.costco.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/cos_6,cos_6.4,cos_6.4.1/166834 We use grams in the UK, what is the mass of this item in grams? -- Regards, Michael Payne
