{"id":52445,"date":"2022-03-02T19:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T00:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52445"},"modified":"2022-03-02T19:19:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T00:19:30","slug":"publix-to-pull-russian-made-vodka-from-shelves-in-support-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/03\/publix-to-pull-russian-made-vodka-from-shelves-in-support-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Publix to pull Russian-made vodka from shelves in support of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida-based supermarket chain Publix will remove Russian-produced vodka from its store shelves.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52446 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the chain confirmed the move to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublix stands with the people of Ukraine,\u201d Publix spokeswoman Maria Brous told the paper. \u201cTo show our support, we have decided to remove Russian-made vodka brands from our shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known when Publix would strip the Russian brands from store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Publix operates more than 300 liquor store locations across Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The grocery chain joins Total Wine stores, which removed all Russian-made products from store shelves earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida-based supermarket chain Publix will remove Russian-produced vodka from its store shelves. A spokesperson from the chain confirmed the move to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Wednesday. \u201cPublix stands with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52447,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52445\/revisions\/52447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}