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Warren Buffett bought this FTSE 100 stock 20 years ago. Here's why it's still worth considering today

In 2006, Warren Buffett started buying shares in Tesco (LSE:TSCO). And the UK’s largest supermarket chain has a lot of classic Berkshire Hathaway characteristics. Ultimately, an accounting scandal meant Buffett’s investment didn’t work out so well and the stock was sold overa. decade ago. But the key features that made it attractive in the first place are very much still intact. Scale In a 1976 letter to the then-CEO of National Indemnity, B…
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