In the town I grew up in, there was a sweet-shop on my route home from school. It was run by Geoff, an eccentric chap who sold sweets the 'proper' way, by weight from behind a counter. He was straight-talking and uncomplicated. When UK shops were, in his words, 'forced to adopt' the metric system in January 2000, he just relabelled everything with the same price, per 113.85 grams rather than per 1/4 lb.
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