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Wonder why that story is dated April 1, 2011 (print version only)

• jerf 16y ago
  If you're implying this may be an extended joke, I'm pretty sure it isn't. I've seen other stories about this in the past couple of months that have nothing to do with April 1. I'm not in any of the test markets though, so I can't vouch that I've seen these personally.
  • mberning 16y ago
    It is not. I live in one of the test markets and the commercials run constantly. One of the commercials features an woman shooting a baby carrot mini-gun at a man while he jumps off a cliff.
  • Joeboy 16y ago
    > If you're implying this may be an extended joke No, just intrigued by the article being apparently from the future.
    • billswift 16y ago
      Magazines are almost always released before the cover dates; some just transferred that practice to the web. Where I think it is really annoying.
      • rapind 16y ago
        Only EXTREME magazines do this.
• shaggyfrog 16y ago
  Here's another article from USA Today, on the same subject, from September 3, 2010. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-08-29-baby-carrots-marketing_N.htm http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-08-29-bab...
  • Joeboy 16y ago
    September 3 2010 is less perplexing as it's in the past.
• mashmac2 16y ago
  Print magazines are often post-dated. This is just from the April 1 edition of Fast Company. The quest to have the freshest, newest news brings us print news from the future, with article deadlines (for the authors) from last week.