havenswift-hosting Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 CubeCart has always supported both Metric (Kg) and Imperial (Lbs) but I wanted to conduct a quick poll to see what the split is between the two for people that use weights. As we dont even use Imperial in the UK any longer, I think if Imperial is used at all, it may be a few people from the USA although I suspect that all shipping calculations are done in metric over there as well now.If you do use Imperial, as well as voting, could you please leave a reply to say which country you are from and also whether you use it for shippingThanksIan Quote
Al Brookbanks Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 From my experience almost everything is still Imperial in the US. Quote
havenswift-hosting Posted January 25, 2014 Author Posted January 25, 2014 One vote and no comments from users ? It only takes a couple of minutes so would be great if we could have a few more please ! Thanks Ian Quote
havenswift-hosting Posted January 26, 2014 Author Posted January 26, 2014 Hi We are about to release a new plugin that works with units of measure and trying to find out whether it is worth going to the hassle of getting it to work with pounds and ounces. I know the USA still use Imperial measurements (funny that for the Republic of America and who would have thought that there would be any country slower than the UK to adopt Metric!) but simply trying to find out if stores still use Imperial for weights of products and things like shipping are calculated using it Thanks Ian Quote
Al Brookbanks Posted January 26, 2014 Posted January 26, 2014 Cool.. makes sense! Good luck with the development. Quote
Dirty Butter Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 I was in a hurry when I voted and didn't notice the request to comment. ALL our weights are in Lb! My customers and I would be completely lost if we had to use metric. Americans just don't "think" in metric. Quote
havenswift-hosting Posted January 31, 2014 Author Posted January 31, 2014 Thanks DB for your vote and post - shame a few others on here cant spare 30 seconds to do the same. Oh well ! Have a good weekend Quote
xyncro Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 yes why hassle.. i voted metric simple because it has been official standards here in Sweden since 22 november 1878.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system Quote
djcaseanova Posted May 28, 2014 Posted May 28, 2014 US and Imperial We still use Imperial as the standard, and that will probably never change in the US. Most specialized trades, video/photo/medical/sciences, etc. use metric regularly, but when it comes to the common people it is imperial. Shipping is done with imperial standards. I use imperial in my store simply because I ship only to the those in the US. Quote
iProxy Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 President Obama said the United States now have use the standard metric Quote
HerbDunn Posted April 28, 2016 Posted April 28, 2016 I'm still setting up my store, but since we are in the US, we use imperial, lbs and oz. Quote
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