KG or kg?

In Germany, the unit of measurement at grocery operations, butchers, and bakeries....is the Kilogram.  Officially, mandated by the German federal officials....the correct abbreviation of Kilogram is 'kg'....NOT 'KG'.

Now, I say this because there's this story that came up in the German news in the past day or two....about a bakery operation in the region of Berlin, which put up a sign, and in the midst of this....the bakery clerk used the abbreviation of 'KG'. Sadly, this was on the day of a audit or review, and they wrote the bakery up.  Right now....the government department is reviewing a fine of 25,000 Euro (roughly 30k US dollars).  That's the max they can go for.  I suspect some political pressure will be applied to lessen it down to some reasonable amount of a couple hundred. (But that's not a guaranteed thing, and it might bankrupt this bakery). 

So, lets go back to the use of 'KG' or 'kg'.  Forty years ago, I think most German kids who were finishing school....kinda knew the 'rule'.  A lot of Germans today hype up their opinion that kids finishing school today....aren't of the same level or capability as the kids of the 1970s or 1980s.  Marginalized students?  Well, that's the suggestion.

Around twenty years ago, I watched a German news piece on apprentice jobs out of the Baden-Wuerttemberg area.  This baker had several apprentice jobs open, and was testing a group of twenty-odd applicants.  The vast majority failed his 'exam'.  For me, it was a pretty routine question list.  An example would be: (1) you need to bake something for three-quarters of an hour....how many minutes is that?  Or (2) you are baking a smaller batch of bread today, and need to use only one-third of the normal requirements....what's the math formula to reach the amount?  For these 14 and 15 year old German kids....the majority applying for the baker apprentice jobs couldn't handle the simple math required. 

What was the school producing?  Unknown.

I would imagine that you can find literally hundreds of thousands of Germans who don't know the 'KG'/'kg' rule. 

The problem here is that Germany is a country that has an awful lot of rules and mandated processes, and it was built on a 'machine' that delivered people capable of repeating these rules/processes.  And now?  Well....the machine isn't as capable as it used to be.