Originally posted by mee See it's this kind of arrogance that got tea thrown in a harbor.
We'll stick to our own systems over here, thank you very much.
It is not arrogance, I am seeing it in industry all the time.
As I said, Canada converted quite some time ago, and the us, has an issue not due to anything more than for most people, units of measure in the grocery store are quarts and gallons, switching to metric requires giving more for 1 litre and 4 litre containers, that means the price per container has to go up, and people won’t like an increase In Canada, as we used imperial measures, imperial quarts were larger than litres, switching to metric resulted in slight reduction in volume, and price went down.
It is all about the appearance to the consumer.
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Originally posted by Rondec With milk as cheap as it is (runs about 2 dollars a gallon in Virginia), I'm not sure how much of a difference cutting a few ounces out would make. The price is low enough that dairy farmers actually have trouble turning a profit and I know several who have gone bankrupt lately.
That’s because the current US supply model does not work and why the US is lobbying to remove the Canadian dairy marketing system, so they can dump the excess milk in the us into Canada and take our industry down with theirs. But that is a whole other discussion