If you use Yahoo!, they have a suggestion page for Yahoo! Local. There's already a suggestion for having metric settings and making the site more global.

Obviously, other parts … continue reading

Some companies pick up on our requests for metrication immediately, others need reminding.

This week's Company of the Week challenge is to go back and send mail to as many of the previous companies of the week as possible. Without reminders, they'll forget us. Let's not let that happen.

As noted in this blog entry by Bruce Herbertson III, Oscar Mayer (a division of Kraft Foods) have stopped putting metric on their pre-packaged meats.

While not a violation of the FPLA (there's an exception for meat), it's a step backwards … continue reading

Nob Hill is part of the Raleys privately owned supermarket chain operating in California, Nevada and New Mexico. They have a good atmosphere and friendly staff, but an annoying penchant for marking everything in US customary measures (even things like alcohol that are sold in metric).

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Sunny Delight sell an assortment of citrus drinks. While they do sell 2 liter sizes, they've also still got 8 fl oz, 12 fl oz and 20 fl oz bottles here in the USA (the rest of the world doesn't get lumbered with non-metric measures). Hopefully a little encouragement on our part can get them to go completely metric in their bottle sizes.

An Anglo-Dutch company with over 400 products in 14 categories, Unilever is present throughout the world. They are known for for a wide range of food, home, and personal care brands like Skippy peanut butter, Dove soap, Snuggle fabric softener, and Degree antiperspirant. They started introducing metric-sized products in the US quite recently. It looks like a good start, and we can encourage them … continue reading

Bolthouse Farms produce only two sizes of bottle, 450mL and 1 liter.

Unfortunately, everything else is done in US customary (see the trade page for more information on sizing ) so it's not really clear what their metrication policy is (or if they even care).

Let's encourage them to consistently … continue reading

Naked Juice is well known for their natural juice drinks. They also operate mostly in metric (although their interface to US consumers is mostly in US customary). … continue reading

A Nestlé Waters North America company, Poland Spring specializes in bottled water from several sources in Maine. Their bottled water is well-known throughout the Northeast. They offer a variety of bottle sizes, many of them metric. Among them the fairly standard 1/2 liter bottle, the 700 mL sport top bottle, and the stackable 3 L bottle. They give an impression of a company that is interested … continue reading

Mazdas vehicles are easily converted to using metric (but it should be easier or even unnecessary). … continue reading