Wal-Mart keeps Paula Deen items on shelves

Although Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced in July the megaretailer was ending its relationship with Paula Deen, the Associated Press reports store officials now say they expect to keep her branded cookware on the shelves through the end of the year.

Wal-Mart said that after dumping Deen, it still had some of her products in the supply pipeline, and it would likely take three more months to move through the stock. At least some of the items are going at clearance prices.

The Bentonville, Ark., company was among numerous companies that severed ties with Deen after the Southern celebrity chef acknowledged that she'd used racial slurs.

Read more at the Associated Press.