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**Chris** · 29-05-2022, 16:50

It’s difficult to know exactly what can change here … IIRC the changes that occurred around the turn of the millennium banned sales of goods by imperial measure only, with a very few exceptions (alcoholic drink traditionally served by the pint being one of them). You could still put imperial measurements on your price label but you were compelled to also put the metric equivalent. In practice this only really affected greengrocers and other sellers of loose goods as packaged goods had long included both metric and imperial units.

Seeing as anyone can put an imperial measure on their goods if they want, what’s really changing? Are they going to permit removal of the metric measures everyone under 50 was taught at school?

29-05-2022, 16:50	#3
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,928	Re: The return of the lb It’s difficult to know exactly what can change here … IIRC the changes that occurred around the turn of the millennium banned sales of goods by imperial measure only, with a very few exceptions (alcoholic drink traditionally served by the pint being one of them). You could still put imperial measurements on your price label but you were compelled to also put the metric equivalent. In practice this only really affected greengrocers and other sellers of loose goods as packaged goods had long included both metric and imperial units. Seeing as anyone can put an imperial measure on their goods if they want, what’s really changing? Are they going to permit removal of the metric measures everyone under 50 was taught at school?