{"id":42094,"date":"2019-12-27T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42094"},"modified":"2019-12-27T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T16:22:18","slug":"amazons-big-bet-on-uk-food-delivery-is-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42094","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s big bet on UK food delivery is in jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Britain&#8217;s competition regulator is escalating its investigation into whether Amazon&#8217;s planned <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/05\/business\/amazon-deliveroo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">investment<\/a> in UK food delivery company Deliveroo would reduce competition and harm consumers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement Friday that it had opened a &#8220;phase 2&#8221; probe after the companies failed to address its concerns about how the deal would affect the market for online deliveries of restaurant meals and groceries. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a real risk that it could leave customers, restaurants and grocers facing higher prices and lower quality services as these markets develop,&#8221; Andrea Gomes da Silva, the regulator&#8217;s executive director, said in statement earlier this month. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Britain&#8217;s competition regulator is escalating its investigation into whether Amazon&#8217;s planned investment in UK food delivery company Deliveroo would reduce competition and harm consumers.The Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement Friday that it had opened a &#8220;phase 2&#8221; probe after the companies failed to address its concerns about how the deal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}