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04-01-2016, 05:28 PM
Yuppies terrified after 'news' that Trader Joe's is closing forever
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The calendar still says it's March, but Yahoo has already pulled off what's sure to go down as one of the cruelest April Fools' Day pranks of the year.
A convincing imitation of a news article (https://www.yahoo.com/style/trader-joe-close-stores-2017-104416372.html)* — since taken down but cached here (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ABxhRqTTgcIJ:https://www.yahoo.com/style/trader-joe-close-stores-2017-104416136.html+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) — posted to the site's style section on Thursday claimed that Trader Joe's would be closing all of its stores nationwide within the next year.
SEE ALSO: Virgin America's new 'logo' is a booby trap (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/virgin-america-april-fools-day-logo-prank/)
Food writer Delaney Strunk plugs through more than 200 words of fake news copy with unflinching seriousness before revealing the deception at the very end of the article.*
(Of course, quotes like,*“At this point, there isn’t e**ugh cookie butter in the world to pave the road ahead” might have raised some eyebrows.)** Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/trader-joes-yahoo-hoax-prank-april-fools/)
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The calendar still says it's March, but Yahoo has already pulled off what's sure to go down as one of the cruelest April Fools' Day pranks of the year.
A convincing imitation of a news article (https://www.yahoo.com/style/trader-joe-close-stores-2017-104416372.html)* — since taken down but cached here (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ABxhRqTTgcIJ:https://www.yahoo.com/style/trader-joe-close-stores-2017-104416136.html+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) — posted to the site's style section on Thursday claimed that Trader Joe's would be closing all of its stores nationwide within the next year.
SEE ALSO: Virgin America's new 'logo' is a booby trap (http://mashable.com/2016/03/31/virgin-america-april-fools-day-logo-prank/)
Food writer Delaney Strunk plugs through more than 200 words of fake news copy with unflinching seriousness before revealing the deception at the very end of the article.*
(Of course, quotes like,*“At this point, there isn’t e**ugh cookie butter in the world to pave the road ahead” might have raised some eyebrows.)** Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/01/trader-joes-yahoo-hoax-prank-april-fools/)
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