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Christmas ads: John Lewis, Tesco, Amazon go for tear-jerkers, as others find festive fun

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Summary
Nutrition label

70% Informative

John Lewis , Tesco , Amazon , Waitrose , Aldi , Morrisons and Marks and Spencer among retailers.

Advert released on Thursday is a "real tear-jerker" and suggests retailer wants to "return to its roots" Aldi has brought back Kevin the Carrot for his ninth consecutive year .

Waitrose has a mystery whodunit, while Morrisons ' singing oven gloves are back.

Advertisers set to spend a record 10.5bn on Christmas adverts this festive season .

Sainsbury 's, Tesco and Lidl have gone for classic tales of goodwill.

Experts say it's about more than just getting consumers through the doors.

But they say they're part of the Christmas countdown and are now huge online moments.

VR Score

61

Informative language

50

Neutral language

74

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

42

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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