Target Joins Home Depot Dropping Deen After Race Slur
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Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc. joined companies severing ties with celebrity chef Paula Deen after she admitted to using racist slurs.
Target will phase out Deen’s line of southern-themed bakeware, dishes and floral aprons both in-store and online, Molly Snyder, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-based retailer, said today in an e-mail. Atlanta-based Home Depot, which only carried Deen’s products online, also will cease selling them, Stephen Holmes, a company spokesman, said in a phone interview.