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Originally Posted by glassman
I wish my dumb ole trade would switch to cm/mm. I have employee's who still have to count the digits LOL....
"As society regress' forward...."
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In my flooring business I was glad to have inches, feet, and yards because once the carpet industry wised up to the fact that hardwood and ceramic tile competitors were killing them with price perception and switched to selling carpet by the square foot vs square yard the playing field was leveled........but it took a while for the good old industry boys to accept the paradigm shift. The consumer perceived hardwood at $6 sq. ft. as a much better 'value' than carpet at $24 sq. yd when it was actually $54 sq. yd. Accountants, teachers, university professors, bankers amazingly all fell into that trap.
In the metric system they are somewhat forced to sell by square meter as square centimeters is their next option.
Jer Dawg was right about the bikes as my first bike in '72 was metric as were the other 20+ that followed........