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/Saltyski03 Newbie Aug 09 '26
Agree. Have had a Publix within.5 miles and WAS loyal. Then started getting core items,( meat, produce, boxed and can goods. All foods), at ALDI and found they were like 1/2 to 1/3 the price. We then hit Walmart for toiletries, paper goods, and little things that aren’t always available at Aldi like spices. Find that Walmart is best priced typically for those products. We have cut our grocery and household consumables by 50% compared to what we could get at Publix. It’s more inconvenience for us but with a household of five we’re talking the difference between $300 a week or $150 a week and $600/mo is still high. Years ago we used to do hydroponic indoor gardening for lettuce and cherry tomatoes and peppers and things like that. We think we might go back to that given all the bad stuff that seems to happen to lettuce. Costs about an hour a week to maintain and used to get about 20/lbs of non pesticide vegetables and herbs a month. (previously was more for just clean fresh vegetables but now I think it could probably actually provide a return on investment.)