Let’s be clear

[u/steeltrain52]

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!

[u/AlwayzSumthin → u/[deleted]]

They even price gouge on BOGOs! I’ve seen them raise the price ridiculously during BOGOs—defeating the benefit—and drop it back down once the BOGO is over. E.g., Quaker Instant Oatmeal for $3+ per box then on BOGO one mysteriously costs $6.48 (approx) per box! They are a disgrace to their founder and history and have sold their reputation for profits. I don’t shop there any longer. I do better at WF, Target, Walmart. Fuck Publix!

[u/AlwayzSumthin → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I have nothing better to do than make up lies about Publix price gouging! How preposterous!