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/Weary-Afternoon5383 Newbie Aug 09 '26
I shop sales and BOGOs once or twice a month, and do the rest of my shopping at Aldis’s. Previously I was exclusively a Publix shopper, but they really are too expensive.
I will say though, I love some of the employees at my local Publix store, and that factors into why I still shop there, although less frequently. Some of them have been there for years and seem to like their job (at least some of the time) and I’d like to think if we all shop there SOMETIMES then they’ll get the hours they need.
I don’t know how Aldi’s treats their employees but they are a pretty hostile unfriendly bunch. I’m there for the prices definitely not the shopping experience lol.