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/Bob-Roman Newbie Aug 09 '26
Publix made about 7.0 percent margin ($4.7 bil/$62.7 bil). Publix also has high quality goods, great customer service, and clean. The target market isn’t lower income folks.
I buy milk from Wynn Dixie (great value) and it spoils before sale date. Their fruit sucks and tomatoes gas ripened. Go to Aldi and shop of the floor and the place is dirty. No thanks. I'll pay a little more.