{"id":22232,"date":"2013-07-01T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22232"},"modified":"2013-07-01T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:19:38","slug":"target-cuts-ties-with-paula-deen-drugmaker-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22232","title":{"rendered":"Target Cuts Ties With Paula Deen; Drugmaker Distances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Target Corp. said Thursday that it is ending its relationship with celebrity cook <strong>Paula Deen <\/strong>as fallout builds from revelations that the Southern celebrity chef used racial slurs in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk<strong> <\/strong>also joined the companies distancing themselves from her. The discounter, based in Minneapolis, said that it will phase out its <strong>Paula Deen<\/strong>-branded cookware and other items. \u201cOnce the merchandise is sold out, we will not be replenishing inventory,\u201d said <strong>Molly Snyder<\/strong>, a Target spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk said Thursday it and<strong> Deen<\/strong> have \u201cmutually agreed to suspend our patient education activities for now.\u201d The developments are the latest blow to <strong>Deen\u2019s<\/strong> business.<\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world\u2019s largest retailer, said Wednesday that it\u2019s also cutting ties with <strong>Deen<\/strong>. The world\u2019s largest retailer currently carries a variety of products under her moniker, including food items, cookware and health and wellness products, at all of its 4,000 U. S. namesake stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Target Corp. said Thursday that it is ending its relationship with celebrity cook Paula Deen as fallout builds from revelations that the Southern celebrity chef used racial slurs in the past. Diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk also joined the companies distancing themselves from her. The discounter, based in Minneapolis, said that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}