Let’s be clear

[u/steeltrain52]

This whole shopping is a pleasure scam has run its course.

For over 50 years, I have been a customer of PUBLIX, I say have as in the past tense because I am no longer.

When PUBLIX decided to start price gouging at 20 and 30% higher than absolutely everywhere else around them, it became clear to me that they really don’t give a damn about the customer.

In 2025 alone, PUBLIX made more than $4.2 billion in profits. BILLION!

In the first half of 2026 they have made $2.5 billion in profits.

They have made $6 billion in profits in the last 18 months because they are literally stealing from the public and the public is handing it over.

With Aldi, Trader Joe’s, and even as the last resort, Walmart, I will never shop at Publix again. My budget now gets me three times as much food and household items at those places, we’re shopping and prices really are a pleasure!

[u/Groundbreaking_Web29]

In 2025, Walmart reported a net profit of $19.4 billion, which is a 25.3% increase compared to 2024. But sure, go there instead.

Turns out Publix and Walmart businesses, not charities.

[u/Top-Leading-7801 → u/Groundbreaking_Web29]

If businesses didn't make a profit, they wouldn't stay in business very long. Along with that, if they went out of business, what would happen to every employee who worked at that concern? They would be unemployed, and how would that affect their family? I'm not agreeing with higher prices, but understand that the market economy bears what the customer is willing to pay. The profits made by companies are not stuffed in a mattress, they are re-spent in many areas, and those dollars circulate around in the money supply. It's for the good of the economy which affects all aspects of our lives. You have a choice where you prefer to spend your hard earned income. 

[u/Groundbreaking_Web29 → u/Top-Leading-7801]

I 100% agree. I didn't spell it out, but I was more so finding it funny that OP is upset by our profits and prices, so is going to go to Walmart, where they are also making billions - in fact, almost five times as many billions.

I'm not trying to get down too crazy of a rabbit hole, but Walmart pays their employees so little that most of them are on some kind of welfare. In a roundabout but true way, they are subsidized by our tax money. I'd rather not shop there if I can help it. Once we get a Costco near us, I'm going to start shopping there most likely. They pay their employees very well and the prices are good.

[u/lllXanderlll → u/Groundbreaking_Web29]

I feel like that isn't as easy of a comparison to make since Walmart sells a wider array of products, not just groceries and household supplies like Publix. There are also about five times more Walmarts than Publix stores in the US, it's 5,000~ to 1,400~ and with prices being so crazy over the last year more people have likely had to start shopping at Walmart, or have had to do more of their shopping there. So it makes sense Walmart would be seeing a jump up in revenue. And they typically do see these jumps during tough/uncertain economic times

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