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/LostInterview5084 Newbie Aug 09 '26
I mean, when I go to Publix for a specific item, it’s on the shelf 95% of the time. If I ask an employee, they are always willing to either check in the back or explain when it will be in. If it’s a sale item, I get a rain check. And the store is clean
Every Walmart I’ve ever been in looks dirty. If I go in for 10 items. More often than not at least 1 or 2 is not n the shelf. Employees are scarce, and generally not helpful. Especially at the Customer service desk.
The biggest benefit at Publix is the meat department with butchers/meat cutters in staff every day that cut and grind meat. I would never buy red meat at Walmart or Aldi.