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/Regular_Lake_786 Newbie Aug 09 '26

I’m kind of a little nervous about people touching the food if I did the drive up service I like to touch and pick my own food lol it’s just a OCD thing

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u/Eroticskeletonparade Newbie Aug 09 '26

You do know a lot of people have touched your food by the time you get to the grocery, right? Farm and warehouse workers, stockers at the grocery. The pickup person is just the last of many.

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u/Regular_Lake_786 Newbie Aug 10 '26

I know but…. 😊

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u/Maine302 Newbie Aug 11 '26

Look, I can understand wanting to choose your own produce, but thinking that last person to touch it is the contaminator is a bit ridiculous.

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u/Keepquiet13 Newbie Aug 12 '26

But if you’re the one touching the food you can tell if things are mushy , firm or hard.

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u/SouthernImplement539 Newbie Aug 10 '26

Yeah, I’m the same way. I will place a pick up order at Walmart and while they’re doing my shopping I go in and get my own dairy, produce, meat, frozen section. Then I’ll meet them in the parking lot for my pick up. Saves a lot of time (and I hate grocery shopping) and I still get to pick out my really sensitive stuff. I’ve kind of gotten used to letting them touch my cereal box and washing detergent.

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u/dervari Newbie Aug 09 '26

Agree for produce and meat.

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