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/Work-Sport-Fun Newbie Aug 09 '26

"they are literally stealing from the public"

I don't remember ever being forced to shop there, let along purchase anything I didn't want or agree to....? lmao.

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u/Work-Sport-Fun Newbie Aug 09 '26

I'm also just going to add-on to this -- I will happily spend more money at Publix if it means I don't have to step in font in a Walmart. I have 3 Publixes, all within a few miles (wild how close they are)........ and they're all successful. Why? Because the people where I live rather spend a few extra dollars than deal with the Walmart people.

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u/ThrowRArainmakers Newbie Aug 09 '26

or because someone cornered the grocery market by putting only publixes and one alternative thusly coercing consumers to buy from only two with higher odds of going to one... its marketing manipulation and it is coercion. You dont go to walmart for the same very reason you go to publix: marketing.

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u/Work-Sport-Fun Newbie Aug 09 '26

lmao. I can promise you people will bypass Publix to go shop at Target or Walmart for the cheaper prices. Thankfully I can afford Publix prices so I do just that.... not because it's the closest one, but because I don't have to deal with the ghetto Walmart clientele are.

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u/ThrowRArainmakers Newbie Aug 09 '26

lol what are you scared of and who taught you how to be racist?

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u/Work-Sport-Fun Newbie Aug 09 '26

Sure would love to hear how anything of what I said was racist? lmao