🧵 Saga file #41
Starbucks and Chipotle merger rumors
Oct 8, 12 PM ET to Oct 13, 9 PM ET
- 2parts so far
- 14outlets carried a part
- 🫏7 · 4 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 5.4 daysrunning so far
- 30 sof TV captions
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 8, 12 PM ET · on the front pages 1.5 daysStarbucks reportedly explored Chipotle takeover
- Oct 12, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 1.2 daysStarbucks denies plans to buy Chipotle
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🧩 The parts
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1. Starbucks reportedly explored Chipotle takeover
Oct 8, 12 PM ET · 11 outlets · on the front pages 1.5 days
“A Starbucks-Chipotle tie-up might be crazy enough to work” first: Semafor
2. Starbucks denies plans to buy Chipotle
Oct 12, 5 PM ET · 7 outlets · on the front pages 1.2 days
“Starbucks says it is not buying Chipotle after takeover speculation” first: CNBC
📺 BBC News 30 s
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.