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Letter: Weighty matter

Published 2 May 1998

From Chris Richardson, King's College

You write that Tesco was giving a discount of 25 per cent per kilo of meat to
Jim Howes
(Feedback, 18 April). My local Sainsbury’s labels some of its
pre-packed meats with “weight per kilo”.

As far as I can tell, this gives the local value of the acceleration due to
gravity. I’m not sure why I need to know this when I’m buying diced pork
steak.

London

Issue no. 2132 published 2 May 1998

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