Decimal & Metric conversion

Two rectangular slide rules with a white plastic central rule encased in an orange plastic sleeve with clear plastic viewing windows. The rules were used to calculate the price per pound or price per...

SA/BRA/5/9/1

Booklet advertising the Sainsbury's decimal demonstration shop and inviting members of womens organisations to book a visit to the decimal shop at 9/11 London Road, Croydon. 1 booklet is a design...

SA/BRA/5/9/2

Customer leaflets regarding the changeover to decimal currency and Sainsbury's plans to deal with this. One leaflet consists of a decimal currency converter.

SA/BRA/5/9/3

Small customer notices informing customers of Sainsbury's efforts to help customers with the changeover to decimalisation. Including help and guidance from staff, the rounding down of prices instead...

SA/BRA/5/9/4

Laminated notice to assist customers in converting ounces to pounds.

SA/BRA/5/9/5

Includes information about Sainsbury's value calculator, Sainsbury's commitment to making the changeover to decimal as easy as possible for customers. Includes copy of newspaper article issued by...

SA/BRA/5/9/6

Consists of a two staff training booklets. Includes fake money and cheques which were used in the training of staff.

SA/BRA/5/9/7

Includes black and white photographs of customers in the Croydon decimalisation demonstration branch and chairman John Davan Sainsbury in the store with Zena Skinner (television personality) making a...

SA/BRA/5/9/8

Leaflets providing information relating to the phasing out by retailers of imperial weights and measures in favour of the metric system. Includes press-out kilograms to pounds and grams to ounces...

SA/BRA/5/9/9

A film made to help explain decimal currency and to illustrate how it is used in a Sainsbury's store. Most of the film takes place in the Sainsbury's self-service store at 9/11 London Road in Croydon,...

SA/BRA/5/9/10

Flyer for customers announcing that loose fruit and vegetables, pick and mix sweets and salad bars are now weighed at the checkout in grams and kilograms rather than ounces and pounds. A cut-out fold...

SA/BRA/5/9/11

Leaflets for the guidance of customers relating to a new weighing method for fresh meat and some poultry and provisions in pounds and decimals, instead of pounds and ounces. There are two different...

SA/BRA/5/9/12