WE have a Government that insists on wasting £29m to prepare us for the unwanted Euro, in the interests of "giving people a choice".

However it was unwilling to allow people to "have a choice" in buying goods in the measures 77 per cent prefer. Enforcing metrification on goods sold by weight has cost £33 million and to what benefit?

When our money was decimalised, retailers took advantage of their customers, especially the elderly. Some are attempting to do it again, in one case, the price of filter coffee has shot up 26 per cent overnight after metrification.

Shopkeepers who claim that all goods can only be labelled in metric are lying to take advantage of the public. It is still be legal to label goods in both metric and Imperial.

Shoppers should therefore only support honest shopkeepers offering the ease and service we want. This does not include trying to understand conversion tables!

Bob Lomas

Coolham, Sussex

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