The fifth column on the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to package size. While not nearly the headache represented by brand names, these also need to be uniform. You couldn’t spell out ounce half the time but abbreviate it to oz the rest; similarly, you couldn’t put a period behind lb on occasion yet omit it on the remainder. And this said nothing of the whole metric versus standard dilemma, within which often the vendor catalogs or even product lines themselves weren’t even consistent. The same often applied to liquids, occasionally abbreviated as fl oz and occasionally not, decisions seemingly applied at random.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://jasonmcgathey.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/tales-of-a-scorched-coffee-pot-chapter-13/
