The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services joins the National Conference on Weights and Measures in observing March 1-7 as “Weights and Measures Week”. Weights and measures laws ensure that consumers get what they pay for, whether it is a gallon of gas, a pound of lunchmeat, or the same price at the checkout scanner as the one on the shelves. The department’s Office of Weights and Measures inspects all commercially used weighing and measuring devices in the Commonwealth.