Comment on The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year agoAmericans: go pick up the closest consumer packaged good within reach. You will find it is labeled with metric.
It would be nice to get highway signs in both units, though with Google maps overlying your settings, that matters less than ever. Some woodworking stuff is just too far gone down the imperial hole and will never come back. But other than such odd niches, you can live a metric life in the US without mush trouble.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, but that’s likely because they want to sell it in Canada without changing the packaging design, isn’t it? Even if they have to put French on the other side for Canada, it’s cheaper in terms of development to have a single English design for both the U.S. and Canada, so it will be labeled in both Imperial and metric.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I thought it was because of China, but hell, all manufacturing probably occurs in metric.