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...Centre of Excellence in Liverpool, has been fitted with 'burp collars' to see if different feeds can reduce emissions during the digestive process. "It's methane emissions from the cows, mainly in the form of burping that accounts for nearly three-quarters of the carbon footprint of milk" said Tesco's community and government director, David North

Tesco monitors burping dairy cows to measure methane emissions [Guardian Unlimited - Sep 07 2009]

...He said the overall range looked older, and did nothing to change the retailer's reliance on older customers. He said: "Our overall view is that the women's offer has gone more conservative and less fashionable in broad terms and as such is unlikely to address the longer term issue over the ageing of the customer base. 'We were very interested in the Indigo range as a more overt attempt by the company to address its weakening position in the 30-55 year old female market. But the initial layout lacks authority and seems to have principally been set upup to allow a wider re-think of the casual wear section. This means that the new range is not that prominently displayed (as all recent front-of-store work has been on the more formal fashion lines) for a collection that aims to attract customers who are broadly not shopping with M&S currently. '[As for] men's wear, the casual collections - Blue Harbour, North Shore, Autograph all looked roughly the same as last seen and frankly not very exciting. Autograph in particular needs some designer input (and is about to get some with a collection by well-known (sic) Brit designer Jason Wintle). 'At the beginning of every season, clothing retailers in our experience think they have a great collection. In terms of look and whether M&S has cracked it with this collection we did not feel that there was any discernible progress overall, with some things better and some things not. Overall we continue to believe that where M&S does have a strong product idea it gets very diluted by the time it finds its way into a product structure dominated by support pieces in a price architecture designed to minimise risk. 'Forecasts in the market have been moving up in recent weeks for the current year (to end March 2010) as commentators have taken a more upbeat view on sales and gross margin for the second half. 'The underlying trading position and thereby the prospects for Christmas 2009 will be much clearer when demand can be gauged more accurately towards the end of September. Our stance has been that price increases in clothing will be resisted by consumers in the second half and that this will result in a return to more promotional trade patterns re-emerging with a commensurate impact on the gross margin.'"

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