And thus, this author believes, there grew an inherent distaste of the Metric system. Let's flip the labels. Now the English equivalent gets all of the ugly trailing digits that no one likes. Neat to be sure, but this is just a cute psychological trick. After all, no one buys things in a grocery store based solely on the amount specified on the label.
People buy things by relative size.
They don't calculate that they'll need precisely 22 ounces and then buy a 22 ounce bag. After all, if you reduce the size while keeping the sticker price the same, your profit grows. Most people won't even notice that what they bought isn't quite a pound. One problem here is that one bag of cookies may give the unit price per ounce while another gives it per pound. A case in point is the big bottle of soda.