{"id":2324,"date":"2018-09-19T06:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/sainsburys-asda-deal-faces-investigation-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T06:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:20:30","slug":"sainsburys-asda-deal-faces-investigation-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/sainsburys-asda-deal-faces-investigation-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury&#8217;s-Asda deal faces investigation &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Sainsbury's\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/F166\/production\/_103489716_sainsgettyimages-953367756.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The merger between supermarkets Sainsbury&#8217;s and Asda is to be subjected to an in-depth competition investigation, it has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority said the tie-up &#8220;raises sufficient concerns to be referred for a more in-depth review&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The CMA had taken an initial review of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-43945254\" class=\"story-body__link\">deal which was announced in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The supermarkets have said that grocery prices will fall in both chains as a result of the merger.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45571151\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images The merger between supermarkets Sainsbury&#8217;s and Asda is to be subjected to an in-depth competition investigation, it has been announced. The Competition and Markets Authority said the tie-up &#8220;raises sufficient concerns to be referred for a more in-depth review&#8221;. The CMA had taken an initial review of the deal which was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}