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| This month, the most talked about retailers, according to SnapShop and the Retail Burn, include Sainsbury's,
Dixon Retail,
John Lewis,
Waitrose ,
Tesco Stores UK,
Boots The Chemist,
Morrisons,
Dune,
Marks & Spencers ,
Debenhams,
B&Q ,
WH Smith PLC,
Brasserie Blanc,
Gamestop,
Miss Sixty,
Vodafone,
Stead & Simpson,
JJB Sports,
M&Co and
Comet.
The retailer with the highest number of positive news articles in November was Sainsbury's, with reports that the supermarket is to recruit an extra 5,000 seasonal workers to meet increased demand from customers.
At the other end of the scale, Comet with speculation that the retailer is unlikely to be trading beyond Christmas.
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| The FSP Retail News Index is a 3 month moving average measure of sentiment in reported retail news stories.
The November RNI index for All Retailers dropped (for the first time since May 2012) to 99.
Household and Clothing & Footwear also dropped this month. Household saw a significant drop, from 99 to 93.
Grocery, Personal, Food & Beverage and Leisure all went up in November.
For the full report, click here.
FSP on average reviews over 350 unique items of retailer news. Each article is scored according to sentiment. RNI is the sum of these scores indexed against 2005 and averaged over a three month period. The RNI time series for all retailers starts from May 2002. |
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