Sainsbury’s held merger talks with rival Morrisons this year to discuss a multibillion-pound deal that would have been the biggest shake-up for UK supermarkets in decades, according to reports.
Business / United Kingdom
Sainsbury’s and Morrisons ‘held talks this year’ on multibillion-pound merger
J SainsburyMorrisonsMergers and AcquisitionsBusinessRetail Industry
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- The Guardian Australia (Business) Sainsbury’s and Morrisons ‘held talks this year’ on multibillion-pound merger
- The Guardian Australia (Business) Sainsbury’s and Morrisons held talks over potential multi-billion-pound merger, reports say – as it happened
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One of the two things this headline claims is not in the report.
- The headline puts “‘held talks this year’” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.
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A summary of The Guardian Australia (Business)’s report. The score is for the full 491-word report.
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| Outlet | Niral Score |
|---|---|
| The Guardian Australia (Business)as they published this story | 86.9 |
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