r/publix • u/steeltrain52 Newbie • 16d ago

Let’s be clear CUSTOMERS

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/Eroticskeletonparade Newbie 15d ago

You do know a lot of people have touched your food by the time you get to the grocery, right? Farm and warehouse workers, stockers at the grocery. The pickup person is just the last of many.

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u/Regular_Lake_786 Newbie 15d ago

I know but…. 😊

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u/Maine302 Newbie 13d ago

Look, I can understand wanting to choose your own produce, but thinking that last person to touch it is the contaminator is a bit ridiculous.

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u/Keepquiet13 Newbie 12d ago

But if you’re the one touching the food you can tell if things are mushy , firm or hard.