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Small business owners rage against new card surcharge ban as they ‘can’t absorb fees’

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Summary

Small business owners have said they will be forced to increase their prices after a ban on card surcharges came into effect.

Headline check

The one thing this headline claims is not in the report.

  • The headline puts “‘can’t absorb fees’” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

Figures, names and quoted words in the headline, looked for in the report itself — not in the summary above. How this is checked

Renfroe Farms Balances Land Stewardship and Production in TN (20190918-NRCS-LSC-0253)
Renfroe Farms Balances Land Stewardship and Production in TN (20190918-NRCS-LSC-0253) Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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7NEWSas they published this story 12.9

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