{
  "id": 11218552,
  "title": "Luckin Coffee’s $300 Million Fraud Should Have Killed It. Customers Had Other Plans",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/luckin-coffees-300-million-fraud-should-have-killed-it-customers-had",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-01T14:26:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/howard-yu/luckin-coffees-300-million-fraud-should-have-killed-it-customers-had-other-plans/91411569"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "After Luckin admitted its fabricated sales, customers flooded the app instead of abandoning it. That demand became the foundation of an unlikely recovery.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}