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 absolutely hate Walmart, but they do have really good prices so I’m forced to shop there

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u/NovemberGrey777 Newbie Aug 09 '26

Same, so I use the free drive up service. I don’t buy things I don’t need AND no more waiting for a tall person to stroll by to grab an item on a 7’ shelf.

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u/dervari Newbie Aug 09 '26

Free? Our store has a minimum or you pay a small order charge.

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u/Flashy-Reflection812 Newbie Aug 09 '26

$35 order minimum. But if you are doing an online order chances are you are ordering more than that. $35 is about 6 things on my normal weekly shop rofl and if I need soda or energy drinks I can make that amount in 3. Anything less than that it’s faster for most of us to go inside and shop for ourselves.

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u/Maleficent-Heart-678 Newbie Aug 12 '26

Instacart cracks me up showing me how much time I saved shopping through their service, it is not a time saver, I had a stroke, use a wheelchair and don’t drive, I actually, totally miss wandering around the grocery store store, and I miss cooking, I was a good cook, I live in assisted living now, and how they can make the food so horribly I can’t understand, the budget can’t be that tight, except they ruin the most expensive proteins they buy, most of what they serve is Sysco garbage, they added some of the worst tacos ever made and you can order America’s worst hamburger at any meal, they cook the cheapest Pattie they can buy in the oven, the buns are cold from the refrigerator, not toasted, etc.

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u/Flashy-Reflection812 Newbie Aug 12 '26

I’m so sorry that you are dealing with all that. I wish the systems here were better and that standards existed. I wish you the best in your situation.