According to SnapShop and the Retail Burn, the most talked about retailers over the past month include John Lewis, Waitrose, M&S, Morrisons, Superdrug, Sainsbury's, Primark, Smyths Toys, Tesco plc, Burberry, Jigsaw, Thorntons, Gordon Ramsey Restaurants, Whole Foods Market, Arnotts, Clinton Cards, Blacks, Best Buy and Miss Sixty.

The retailer recording the most amount of positively rated articles of the last month is John Lewis, with changes at the top, talk of international expansion, its first ever catwalk show and weekly positive results.

Miss Sixty has attracted the most negative press with the high court scuppering any chance of survival when it quashed the CVA

Other noteable stories include: Best Buy's glowing record tarnished by legal trademark wrangles as well as its inability to hold on to a key executive and Smyths Toys expanding from its Irish base into the North West of England