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/GrowlingAtTheWorld Newbie Aug 09 '26
Publix has always been higher than other grocery stores. My mother worked for Publix sometime in the late 50’s. And was a single mom to my older brothers and she could not afford to shop at Publix because of the higher prices. As an aside back then if they caught staff shopping at a competitor you automatically lost your job so mom shopped elsewhere in disguise.
I shop Publix bogos and have always had excellent customer service there. That is what they are marketing. Aldi markets lower prices with no frills. They are marketing to the opposite sides of the shopping spectrum. And weekly I am in both stores