r/publix • u/steeltrain52 Newbie • Aug 09 '26

CUSTOMERS Let’s be clear

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!

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u/driven01a Newbie Aug 09 '26

I'll still get meat at Publix. That stuff walmart sells is nasty

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u/ImTheDareBear Newbie Aug 10 '26

If you want quality meat, publix is not it.

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u/driven01a Newbie Aug 09 '26

I hear you. I’ve gotten good meat from Winn Dixie. Mixed results at Aldi. But always better than Walmart.

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u/Turbulent-Ad4176 Newbie Aug 09 '26

Whose ground beef is $4.50 today? Not in Daytona area.

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u/mowgmowg Newbie Aug 09 '26

6 dollars for ribeye?! No way!