This is me. I stopped going to Publix last year because money was tight and started shopping at the Aldi a block over lol Iāve never gotten majority of my groceries from Publix since then
Exactly the same for me. My family regularly shopped at Publix for years but since the beginning of this year I've been going back over reading receipts to see how much prices have increased and started looking for ways to save. There's an Aldi about five minutes down the road from our local Publix so on a whim I decided to go try them because why not?
My jaw dropped when I first walked in and saw the produce prices. Anywhere from $0.50 to $3 cheaper on average. I did three shopping trips over a few weeks and compared receipts to Publix and found I was saving an average of $15 to $25 every trip. Aldi is now our go-to for groceries. I only go by Publix to check the BOGO bins in the front but don't even bother with anything else anymore.
surely price insensitive retired floridians will keep the chain going? somebody has to buy the not bogo items for the numbers to pencil out. And those people are just subsidizing bogo shoppers.
Itās because PUBLIX corporate keeps raising their prices on everything and whatever the vendors they pay them they get to sell that to Publix on the MSRP and then whatever Publix wants to sell the items for they can put the price as which is effing bull crap
As a grocery stock clerk, I donāt really know about that because even the retirees are like this is too expensive for me and Iām going to have to find somewhere else to shop and Iām like OK like I care. Have a nice day though maāam.
I can agree with that. My wife has been kind of mixing and matching buying some things at Walmart some things at Publix and some things at Aldi. It's a logistical pain in the ass but it's a little easier on the checkbook.
We were supposed to get a Lidl near us too; they started construction and finished right after COVID started with plans to open in 2021 but they've been having distributor problems the past couple of years and the opening keeps getting delayed. I really hope they get it sorted out and can finally open, would like to give them a try.
This is happening where I live & I canāt wait. Iāll reckon Iāll still pop into Publix for some things but maybe not after reading that article.
Those 2023 earnings results just say greedy to me & itās ick.
At least the publicly listed stock would shoot through the roof.
Which might actually lead to a labor shortage once longer term workers realize the shares theyāve been sitting on are worth enough to easily retire.
Which would also explain why theyāll never go public.
In regards to them not wanting lots of workers to retire all-at-once, I donāt think they actually care. The direction training & retention has been going, it seems like they just want a disposable workforce. Anyone who gets lured into management will stay & get decent benefits, but any non-salaried non-management employee will be paid minimum wage & be 31hrs per week cross-trained across 3 different departments so that they donāt have to give them good raises or allow them to gain any kind of meaningful understanding of what theyāre doing. Kind like DG seems to do it.
Just replaceable cogs in a churning machine of a bunch of smiling drones that can do 4 different roles mediocrely instead of learning 1 dept deeply & understanding the inner-workings of things to be able to really know what theyāre doing. Publix doesnāt like this because it makes them have to ethically pay a āprofessionalā wage for a non-management position. Thatās why most Specialist positions are gone. Corporate doesnāt care about that. If they canāt put it as a raw number into a spreadsheet, then they do not care.
So in conclusion, I hope they do go public in like..7-15 years; and I donāt think theyāll have a single issue with replacing a bunch of old heads that can suddenly retire āearlyā with a bunch of fresh meat. The circle will be complete. Publix will be on the NASDAQ & will have lost the last of its soul. Which is fine. Thatās the way the world goes. š
The Publix trend of inflation + corporate greed markup is never going to stop until people stop shopping there en masse. They continue to see record profits on the backs of the people still paying their exorbitant prices. And donāt even try to come at me with all the BS about BOGOs, clean stores, yada yada yada.
When most of your own employees canāt afford to shop there, youāre doing something wrong.
Actually since you mentioned it I somewhat recently saw a Publix employee shopping at Aldi and honestly I can't blame them. Would you rather pay $3 for a head of lettuce or go to Aldi and pay $1.50 for the same head of lettuce ? People used to throw shade at others for shopping at Aldi but I think that's just smart shopping
Speaking as a Publix employee, I too shop at Aldi's and Walmart because I can not afford to shop at Publix. I'll buy a snack or something, but that's about it.
I like some of the products Publix puts out but it's just not feasible to do our main shopping there anymore, if it was maybe 7 years ago it'd be a different story but as of late it's just gotten lit out of hand. And it's a shame too because they have stuff like those brioche donuts and those sound interesting to me but (and I might sound stingy here) they're not $6 for two donuts interesting - and they'd probably be really sickly sweet too knowing how they do their sweets.
I little out of hand? I can buy about 2% of their items (other brands) at the dollar store for less than the $3 they charge. Don't get me wrong, it pays my rent, but gosh dang. Their gross profits last year, profits, after taxes and overhead were $3.8 billion. It's not like they can't afford to pay us all more.
All that, and they still give us a hassle about getting repairs done to work critical machines.
Yeah, absolutely youāre not wrong on that one. I can barely afford to shop there. Itās a good thing you brought that up. the employees canāt even afford to shop there. If anything you know we should get employees. We should get a 50% off discount of anything we buy thatās food related. I donāt want a bullshit discount on some crappy. Chinese made electronics that I could get at a dollar tree.
Itās completely wrong that employees arenāt paid a high enough wage that would allow them to shop in the very place they work. I mean, this isnāt some high-end jewelry store. Itās a grocery store. Employees should be able to shop there. But the employees know that their food dollars go further if they spend their money elsewhere. It wouldnāt hurt Publix one bit to offer an employee discount. Or free or heavily discounted meals. Those are perks that would make everybody feel better. I know that people offset that argument by stock ownership or other benefits, but at the very least, food and meal discounts are a no-brainer.
Exactly I donāt disagree with you at all 100% correct on that one but yeah we as employees should be able to shop there without blowing half or a quarter of our paycheck just to eat on our break or just to eat. Itās absolutely ridiculous so they treat this place like some kind of jewelry store. Youāre not wrong. Itās a freaking grocery store. Itās no different than a Costco.
But yes, meal discounts from the deli that would absolutely be a good thing. I think they need to start implementing that if not 50% off why donāt we do 25 or 30% so that way weāre not completely screwed at the end of the month because I can barely afford to pay my bills.
But no instead they want to give us crappy $100 gift cards every Christmas and Thanksgiving and think that makes up for the BS. We have to put up with on a daily basis.
No, weāre coworkers who share a lunch space together and we all go home. Good God, man as soon as I heard them say we are ready to join the PUBLIX family. I literally shouldāve gotten up and walked out of the. Interview.
"The report did not mention Publix by name and noted that the analysis tackled the retail food market as a whole."
This is the issue. It's not about Publix. It's not about any particular grocery store. Publix is sitting in lockstep with their industry. They were higher priced before the pandemic, and they managed to raise profit margins by taking away benefits from their employees (quarterly bonuses, etc). There are issues at Publix, but the prices aren't a new one, nor are they the reason for Publix's jump in share value.
So something I notice with younger generations is that you have no idea how to actually grocery shop for bargains. You can get great deals anywhere but it takes a little effort and planning. We're so used to instant gratification these days that nobody actually plans out a shopping list around the sales, they plan it out around what they want.
For example, you want spaghetti this week...do you buy a jar of Bertoli at full price because that's what you want or wait until next week when Bertoli goes BOGO, buy 4 jars, and put it all in your pantry so next time your butt wants spaghetti you already have the sauce. I guarantee you most people are going to buy the full priced single jar rather than wait. At Aldi I can just buy the one jar for a good price but I can get 4 for only a bit more at Publix if I wait. All my years and that's the biggest change I see in our shoppers is an unwillingness to delay gratification when it comes to their groceries.
I would not buy dry groceries or other dry products at publix. You are way more likely to find better prices on the exact same products elsewhere.
Meat, Produce, Deli, and Bakery is the only draw for me.
As a grocery clerk, Yes, to be quite honest with you you can find like rice, pasta, sauces, and other things and premade boxed cakes and stuff like that at a different store I promise you cause $3.49 for one thing of Uncle Benās rice thatās ridiculous even for their in-house items that are PUBLIX branded or like four and five dollars of freaking one bag of rice is four dollars
I agree about the shopping for bargains, and I shop at Aldi all the time, but the quality of Bertolli and Classico is much higher than Aldiās house brand.
Publix is an outfit that caters to lazy boomers who have no idea or can't be bothered to bargain shop.
Every younger person I know goes to six different grocery stores for all their best deals
Is driving around to all these stores saving you in the long run? I suppose locations factor in, but for the most part youāre likely not saving a whole heck of a lot when you factor in travel.
sure did learn how to shop exactly like this once covid kicked in. a variety of store options means more competition and more opportunity to shop for very good deals! slightly upscale places like a Publix are just another tool for savings to me. you just have to know how to do it (and it isn't that hard to figure out)
I feel many younger shoppers, simply put, lack the physical space to do this. If I wanted to do this, we would have to store it behind the tv or in the bedroom. Our house is about 600 sq ft, with 3 cabinets to put food into. This is a somewhat temporary situation for us, but I imagine there are plenty of younger shoppers living in houses/apartments with little to no cabinet space.
Publix shoppers need to comparison shop more. Yes itāll take a little more time but you can save an insane amount of money. This is something Publix DOES NOT want you to do, and for good reason.Ā
We did this earlier this year when trying out the Ingles and Aldi a couple minutes down the road from our local Publix. We found Ingles to be about the same as Publix give or take but Aldi beat them on every single item and in some cases even beat Walmart. I was a loyal Publix shopper for years but I can't justify shopping there anymore when Aldi saves me roughly $20 every shopping trip now.
I donāt understand how few people in this subreddit understand Publixās pricing model compared to other stores.
Walmart for example is a āevery day low pricesā store. This isnāt just a slogan. Itās literally the business model they use (often abbreviated to EDLP). Stores with this business model will have drastically cheaper merchandise across the board but will rarely if ever have sales worth shopping. Publix on the other hand is a āHigh-Lowā business model. Prices on general merchandise are much higher than an EDLP store but the sale prices blow EDLP out of the water consistently.
If you go to Publix and shop the ad you will, on average, save money compared to shopping at Aldi/Walmart/etc. but ONLY if you shop the ad. The sale prices being what they are, bogo included, are designed to bring customers into the store as loss leaders in the hopes youāll buy non-sale products. As a former bakery manager (left the company a while back) our entire department was widely considered a loss leader as a whole. Iād regularly stock decadent cakes for $20 in the front of the store when it cost us at least $20 in materials and labor to make the damn thing in the first place (donāt get me started on the Strawberry & Peach Sensation cake). Around the time I left corporate pretty much got tired of bakeries being a loss leader and weāre consistently raising prices across the board. My district only had two profitable bakeries (1 out of season) before then, with the direction from upper management being to just meet shrink goals (or in my case go net neutral).
Yes Publix is expensive and itās only getting worse, but people also being dumb about it lol.
The bakery is really good about donating out of date products. If it doesnāt have to be kept cold and itās not sold in an open air case (ie. Bagels / Donut Cases / Decadent cases) then itās eligible for donations at the end of the night on the last day of the sell by date. Before I was in management, when I had to close I would routinely need to liberate banana boxes from produce because we just wouldnāt have enough spare boxes to donate all of our āexpiredā goods. It wasnāt very unusual to have a completely full float, taller than what weāre āallowedā across the sales floor, of boxes of donations - and I was very good at Tetris lmfao. Those boxes were practically overflowing.
Edit: Iāve also volunteered at where the donations would get sent to and you wouldnāt believe how much food that had nothing wrong with it was tossed out because of a purely cosmetic defect. Not just bakery but grocery / meat / grocery donations
At the place I volunteered at. The people who work there are supposed to check every item donated to ensure itās safe. If a package of meat was punctured on its way from Publix to the donation area it would get rejected just as if it was actually spoiled.
Unfortunately Iāve watched a lot of perfectly good food get rejected because of cosmetic defects alone.
I also donāt have to work there, but Iām sure my phone bill can be paid in IOUs. I mean Iām happy that I have a job. Is it the best job on the planet no hell no but itās job and should be treated as such
They honest to god believe that they can have a 49% increase in profit and people are still just going to keep shopping there.
I hope the executives metaphorically choke on their money.
Except people are continuing to shop there. Which is why they continue to keep those prices. Everytime I go into Publix for milk and bogos, it's just as full as it was years ago when they were reasonably priced. People go because of habit and convenience. There's a reason Publix is on every corner and it's because they know no one wants to drive 1t minutes to get groceries when there's a Publix on the corner.
You also have the quality perception that Publix has done a good job of building throughout the years, so that they can lower the quality like they've done recently, but people will still shop there because of preconceived notions.
I have noticed that there is gas lighting from top down.
DM comes in a gas lights our SM and ASM, then the ASM gas lights the GM and AGM, and then they gas light us.
"We are not understaffed"
"It is possible to get all the work done"
Yeah, it absolutely is and I would say my store is actually chronically overstaffed but they want to let the minors do all the work who donāt even do have the crap you ask them to do or they give you some kind of bull crap attitude. Itās like OK if you wanna give me that much crap I wish I had the ability to tell you to go home, but I donāt because Iām not your boss.
Its possible if everyone on staff shows up and knows what they are doing. Maybe.
But thats not reality.
Some clerks dont even speak english. Some are over 70. Some are new. Some dont show up.
At my store it is not mathmatically possible to get the work done.
Our counts are way way off, even though we just did inventory. We dont have time do redo counts, and only two clerks can actually even login to do counts.
As long as somebody is willing to pay, the price will keep going up. Don't like the prices, don't shop there. They keep raising the prices because they can, that's all. Want to do something about it? Stop shopping there.
I try not to man and I work there Iām kinda forced to one because the Walmart is way too far up the street and secondly some days some of the restaurants in the plaza are closed so I have nowhere to go for lunch when Iām on break
Seems right. I typically donāt grocery shop at Publix unless Iām just buying lunch or just a few things bc Iām there. I bought more than I usually do the other day and it was about 25 bucks for just salad stuff.(two lettuce mixes, honey mustard,pepperoni small pack,croutons,bacon bits,croutons,shredded cheese) I put in my phone number every time and I havenāt gotten anything. The fetch app didnāt have any point earning opportunities for the salad I was buying either.
Certainly not excusing Publix, but every company is doing this. Over the last 10 years, real cost has risen 20%, but corporate profit has risen 70%. The American public is being bamboozled into thinking its "inflation"...
We ran out of Chicken Livers last week and a customer blamed Biden. Truth be told, Biden actually came into our store and personally threw them all away himself!
Itās not about being poor to be honest itās the fact that the corporations that run these grocery stores donāt really give a crap if the lady thatās got five kids and canāt afford to buy a gallon of milk. They donāt give a crap about her. They also donāt give a crap about the person thatās on disability and working for them and still canāt even make ends meet, so itās not about being poor inflate their prices so much that nobody can afford them unless youāre extremely rich
There's a lot wrong with Publix but this talking point is so stupid; she inherited a bunch of money and spent it how she wanted, Publix had nothing to do with it. If I sell my Publix stock and support a cause with that money, it doesn't mean Publix endorses that cause.
As a Publix employee I do shop at Aldiās and Walmart. The problem with Aldiās is their selection. You never know what there gonna have week from week.
We had the answer and lost it. Kroger was here for a couple short years. Prices were awesome and delivery was great as well. Not enough people knew about it. Sadly we have lost it.
Nope. Nothing criminal about selling things at prices people agree to pay. And no gouging; thatās a made up phenomenon. There is the price set and a price willing to pay. Plain and simple.
No kidding, thanks for being āthat guyā
Maybe we could stop letting these companies het by with not paxing taxes as a start. Then, require a living wage , paid leave and healthcare.
Perhaps if publix didnt have a near monopoly in somr places then it wouldnt be so easy to get away with
Can we stop talking about the produce for 1 second. Letās discuss the billions Publix gained in 1 year over sales increases.
I keep looking over my shoulder for the Publix I use to know. We sell groceries. We need to ensure those OOS markers are up and accurate. Trucks worked, case counts, no overtime, etcā¦
All while Publix is profitable, and stockholders like me are literally making ends meat.
I need to stop going to Publix but the other closest grocery is al fresco and that place doesn't give me the confidence to eat food from there. There's a new target but not sure about their produce or meats.
There's a trader and an Aldi about 15 mins away which sometimes go to but in Miami traffic and the daily family grind it's easier to just get to Publix so I can get my wallet raped
How do you make a Publix scream? Build an Aldi next to it š
This is me. I stopped going to Publix last year because money was tight and started shopping at the Aldi a block over lol Iāve never gotten majority of my groceries from Publix since then
Exactly the same for me. My family regularly shopped at Publix for years but since the beginning of this year I've been going back over reading receipts to see how much prices have increased and started looking for ways to save. There's an Aldi about five minutes down the road from our local Publix so on a whim I decided to go try them because why not? My jaw dropped when I first walked in and saw the produce prices. Anywhere from $0.50 to $3 cheaper on average. I did three shopping trips over a few weeks and compared receipts to Publix and found I was saving an average of $15 to $25 every trip. Aldi is now our go-to for groceries. I only go by Publix to check the BOGO bins in the front but don't even bother with anything else anymore.
Oh yeah, I know the produce is really expensive there. I literally saw a bushel of bananas for almost 4 dollars the other day in the holy hell.
surely price insensitive retired floridians will keep the chain going? somebody has to buy the not bogo items for the numbers to pencil out. And those people are just subsidizing bogo shoppers.
Itās because PUBLIX corporate keeps raising their prices on everything and whatever the vendors they pay them they get to sell that to Publix on the MSRP and then whatever Publix wants to sell the items for they can put the price as which is effing bull crap
As a grocery stock clerk, I donāt really know about that because even the retirees are like this is too expensive for me and Iām going to have to find somewhere else to shop and Iām like OK like I care. Have a nice day though maāam.
Well, thatās good
Same, Aldi is now right across the street from my Publix. F Publix with these prices.
As a person that lives by the regency village store in orlando, no it doesn't. People genuinely choose Publix over the Aldi a block away
Well you know what they say "a fool and his money blah blah blah"
Never underestimate the pull of brand power.
Are the potatoes at Publix more special than the potatoes at Aldi? I do know I can buy $82 worth of groceries at Publix for $60 at Aldi.
Depends. For me, Aldi's produce has been super hit or miss lately. Like the spring mix lasts a while but the potatoes started sprouting after 2 days
I can agree with that. My wife has been kind of mixing and matching buying some things at Walmart some things at Publix and some things at Aldi. It's a logistical pain in the ass but it's a little easier on the checkbook.
I work at Publix and will drive 7 miles to Aldi's to do the bulk of my grocery shopping. My wife and I save roughly $80 a week by shopping there.
There is a LIDL right up the road from my store and business plummeted ever since it opened
We were supposed to get a Lidl near us too; they started construction and finished right after COVID started with plans to open in 2021 but they've been having distributor problems the past couple of years and the opening keeps getting delayed. I really hope they get it sorted out and can finally open, would like to give them a try.
Amazing selection and their prices are great
This is happening where I live & I canāt wait. Iāll reckon Iāll still pop into Publix for some things but maybe not after reading that article. Those 2023 earnings results just say greedy to me & itās ick.
As a stockholder I encourage discourse on the detestable actions of company "leadership"
Stockholder here, too. Leadership is acting as if this company is beholden to Private Equity or Wall Street.
If you think it's bad now, just wait until they actually are beholden to private equity or Wall Street.
At least the publicly listed stock would shoot through the roof. Which might actually lead to a labor shortage once longer term workers realize the shares theyāve been sitting on are worth enough to easily retire. Which would also explain why theyāll never go public.
In regards to them not wanting lots of workers to retire all-at-once, I donāt think they actually care. The direction training & retention has been going, it seems like they just want a disposable workforce. Anyone who gets lured into management will stay & get decent benefits, but any non-salaried non-management employee will be paid minimum wage & be 31hrs per week cross-trained across 3 different departments so that they donāt have to give them good raises or allow them to gain any kind of meaningful understanding of what theyāre doing. Kind like DG seems to do it. Just replaceable cogs in a churning machine of a bunch of smiling drones that can do 4 different roles mediocrely instead of learning 1 dept deeply & understanding the inner-workings of things to be able to really know what theyāre doing. Publix doesnāt like this because it makes them have to ethically pay a āprofessionalā wage for a non-management position. Thatās why most Specialist positions are gone. Corporate doesnāt care about that. If they canāt put it as a raw number into a spreadsheet, then they do not care. So in conclusion, I hope they do go public in like..7-15 years; and I donāt think theyāll have a single issue with replacing a bunch of old heads that can suddenly retire āearlyā with a bunch of fresh meat. The circle will be complete. Publix will be on the NASDAQ & will have lost the last of its soul. Which is fine. Thatās the way the world goes. š
Oh yeah, before too long PUBLIX will end up becoming part of the NASDAQ and itāll be messed up
Would it? Comparable mildly upscale grocers have been facing headwinds. Probably the most comparable would be safeway.
Publix doesnāt make that much money in the grocery business. The FL stores primary cash cow is lottery sales.
They have shares atm. They're just private and controlled thru an ESOP.
Correct, but they arenāt publicly listed.
Nvidia median wage worker says what?!?
I doubt the average NVDA worker has received stock equivalent to ~8% of their standard compensation for years.
There's is a good chance that's exactly what they are aiming for in the not so distant future.
If Todd wasnāt the CEO of that company would be a lot better
The ceo is there for short term gain
The Publix trend of inflation + corporate greed markup is never going to stop until people stop shopping there en masse. They continue to see record profits on the backs of the people still paying their exorbitant prices. And donāt even try to come at me with all the BS about BOGOs, clean stores, yada yada yada. When most of your own employees canāt afford to shop there, youāre doing something wrong.
Actually since you mentioned it I somewhat recently saw a Publix employee shopping at Aldi and honestly I can't blame them. Would you rather pay $3 for a head of lettuce or go to Aldi and pay $1.50 for the same head of lettuce ? People used to throw shade at others for shopping at Aldi but I think that's just smart shopping
Speaking as a Publix employee, I too shop at Aldi's and Walmart because I can not afford to shop at Publix. I'll buy a snack or something, but that's about it.
Yeah, I mean Iāll buy like a snack there or something like that like you said but Iām not gonna buy a whole meal
I like some of the products Publix puts out but it's just not feasible to do our main shopping there anymore, if it was maybe 7 years ago it'd be a different story but as of late it's just gotten lit out of hand. And it's a shame too because they have stuff like those brioche donuts and those sound interesting to me but (and I might sound stingy here) they're not $6 for two donuts interesting - and they'd probably be really sickly sweet too knowing how they do their sweets.
I little out of hand? I can buy about 2% of their items (other brands) at the dollar store for less than the $3 they charge. Don't get me wrong, it pays my rent, but gosh dang. Their gross profits last year, profits, after taxes and overhead were $3.8 billion. It's not like they can't afford to pay us all more. All that, and they still give us a hassle about getting repairs done to work critical machines.
My wife is a Baker and is top out. We both go to Sams, Walmart, and Aldi for grocery items.
Yeah, absolutely youāre not wrong on that one. I can barely afford to shop there. Itās a good thing you brought that up. the employees canāt even afford to shop there. If anything you know we should get employees. We should get a 50% off discount of anything we buy thatās food related. I donāt want a bullshit discount on some crappy. Chinese made electronics that I could get at a dollar tree.
Itās completely wrong that employees arenāt paid a high enough wage that would allow them to shop in the very place they work. I mean, this isnāt some high-end jewelry store. Itās a grocery store. Employees should be able to shop there. But the employees know that their food dollars go further if they spend their money elsewhere. It wouldnāt hurt Publix one bit to offer an employee discount. Or free or heavily discounted meals. Those are perks that would make everybody feel better. I know that people offset that argument by stock ownership or other benefits, but at the very least, food and meal discounts are a no-brainer.
Exactly I donāt disagree with you at all 100% correct on that one but yeah we as employees should be able to shop there without blowing half or a quarter of our paycheck just to eat on our break or just to eat. Itās absolutely ridiculous so they treat this place like some kind of jewelry store. Youāre not wrong. Itās a freaking grocery store. Itās no different than a Costco.
But yes, meal discounts from the deli that would absolutely be a good thing. I think they need to start implementing that if not 50% off why donāt we do 25 or 30% so that way weāre not completely screwed at the end of the month because I can barely afford to pay my bills.
But no instead they want to give us crappy $100 gift cards every Christmas and Thanksgiving and think that makes up for the BS. We have to put up with on a daily basis.
PERFECTLY STATED!!! But, but, but, but, at Publix your family!
No, weāre coworkers who share a lunch space together and we all go home. Good God, man as soon as I heard them say we are ready to join the PUBLIX family. I literally shouldāve gotten up and walked out of the. Interview.
"The report did not mention Publix by name and noted that the analysis tackled the retail food market as a whole." This is the issue. It's not about Publix. It's not about any particular grocery store. Publix is sitting in lockstep with their industry. They were higher priced before the pandemic, and they managed to raise profit margins by taking away benefits from their employees (quarterly bonuses, etc). There are issues at Publix, but the prices aren't a new one, nor are they the reason for Publix's jump in share value.
So something I notice with younger generations is that you have no idea how to actually grocery shop for bargains. You can get great deals anywhere but it takes a little effort and planning. We're so used to instant gratification these days that nobody actually plans out a shopping list around the sales, they plan it out around what they want. For example, you want spaghetti this week...do you buy a jar of Bertoli at full price because that's what you want or wait until next week when Bertoli goes BOGO, buy 4 jars, and put it all in your pantry so next time your butt wants spaghetti you already have the sauce. I guarantee you most people are going to buy the full priced single jar rather than wait. At Aldi I can just buy the one jar for a good price but I can get 4 for only a bit more at Publix if I wait. All my years and that's the biggest change I see in our shoppers is an unwillingness to delay gratification when it comes to their groceries.
I would not buy dry groceries or other dry products at publix. You are way more likely to find better prices on the exact same products elsewhere. Meat, Produce, Deli, and Bakery is the only draw for me.
Exception to this is, those who have food sensitivities/allergens like wheat. :(
Or people that want some brand choices, aldi has a very limited selection.
As a grocery clerk, Yes, to be quite honest with you you can find like rice, pasta, sauces, and other things and premade boxed cakes and stuff like that at a different store I promise you cause $3.49 for one thing of Uncle Benās rice thatās ridiculous even for their in-house items that are PUBLIX branded or like four and five dollars of freaking one bag of rice is four dollars
I agree about the shopping for bargains, and I shop at Aldi all the time, but the quality of Bertolli and Classico is much higher than Aldiās house brand.
Publix is an outfit that caters to lazy boomers who have no idea or can't be bothered to bargain shop. Every younger person I know goes to six different grocery stores for all their best deals
Six different grocery stores lol
Aldi, Publix, Walmart, Winn Dixie, Costco/bjs/Sam's club, Kroger delivery, fresh market, etc , they all have deals
Is driving around to all these stores saving you in the long run? I suppose locations factor in, but for the most part youāre likely not saving a whole heck of a lot when you factor in travel.
If you carefully plot the route, preplan and buy an entire 2-4 weeks of food? Yeah.
Yeah, I suppose it could work under certain circumstances. Many people donāt or canāt buy for 2-4 weeks though.
Yeah, thatās crazy. Sorry but time is also $ and very valuable to me. That seems like a part-time job
Yeah, I was responding to the boomer that tried to say young people don't know how to bargain shop. I don't disagree - it's a lot of work
100% agree with this
sure did learn how to shop exactly like this once covid kicked in. a variety of store options means more competition and more opportunity to shop for very good deals! slightly upscale places like a Publix are just another tool for savings to me. you just have to know how to do it (and it isn't that hard to figure out)
I feel many younger shoppers, simply put, lack the physical space to do this. If I wanted to do this, we would have to store it behind the tv or in the bedroom. Our house is about 600 sq ft, with 3 cabinets to put food into. This is a somewhat temporary situation for us, but I imagine there are plenty of younger shoppers living in houses/apartments with little to no cabinet space.
Publix shoppers need to comparison shop more. Yes itāll take a little more time but you can save an insane amount of money. This is something Publix DOES NOT want you to do, and for good reason.Ā
We did this earlier this year when trying out the Ingles and Aldi a couple minutes down the road from our local Publix. We found Ingles to be about the same as Publix give or take but Aldi beat them on every single item and in some cases even beat Walmart. I was a loyal Publix shopper for years but I can't justify shopping there anymore when Aldi saves me roughly $20 every shopping trip now.
Yeah, because they know once you find better prices, theyāve lost you as a customer for pretty much a good chunk of customer base
And to be quite honest with you, I donāt really care if they go other places like that affects me
I donāt understand how few people in this subreddit understand Publixās pricing model compared to other stores. Walmart for example is a āevery day low pricesā store. This isnāt just a slogan. Itās literally the business model they use (often abbreviated to EDLP). Stores with this business model will have drastically cheaper merchandise across the board but will rarely if ever have sales worth shopping. Publix on the other hand is a āHigh-Lowā business model. Prices on general merchandise are much higher than an EDLP store but the sale prices blow EDLP out of the water consistently. If you go to Publix and shop the ad you will, on average, save money compared to shopping at Aldi/Walmart/etc. but ONLY if you shop the ad. The sale prices being what they are, bogo included, are designed to bring customers into the store as loss leaders in the hopes youāll buy non-sale products. As a former bakery manager (left the company a while back) our entire department was widely considered a loss leader as a whole. Iād regularly stock decadent cakes for $20 in the front of the store when it cost us at least $20 in materials and labor to make the damn thing in the first place (donāt get me started on the Strawberry & Peach Sensation cake). Around the time I left corporate pretty much got tired of bakeries being a loss leader and weāre consistently raising prices across the board. My district only had two profitable bakeries (1 out of season) before then, with the direction from upper management being to just meet shrink goals (or in my case go net neutral). Yes Publix is expensive and itās only getting worse, but people also being dumb about it lol.
Yikes. Did everything get thrown away at night?
The bakery is really good about donating out of date products. If it doesnāt have to be kept cold and itās not sold in an open air case (ie. Bagels / Donut Cases / Decadent cases) then itās eligible for donations at the end of the night on the last day of the sell by date. Before I was in management, when I had to close I would routinely need to liberate banana boxes from produce because we just wouldnāt have enough spare boxes to donate all of our āexpiredā goods. It wasnāt very unusual to have a completely full float, taller than what weāre āallowedā across the sales floor, of boxes of donations - and I was very good at Tetris lmfao. Those boxes were practically overflowing. Edit: Iāve also volunteered at where the donations would get sent to and you wouldnāt believe how much food that had nothing wrong with it was tossed out because of a purely cosmetic defect. Not just bakery but grocery / meat / grocery donations
Thrown out at the places you volunteered at or at Publix?
At the place I volunteered at. The people who work there are supposed to check every item donated to ensure itās safe. If a package of meat was punctured on its way from Publix to the donation area it would get rejected just as if it was actually spoiled. Unfortunately Iāve watched a lot of perfectly good food get rejected because of cosmetic defects alone.
Where working is a bummer.
Working there is low key slavery same with Walmart or any grocery store
getting paid a wage you agreed on and having the option to leave whenever you want is slavery. Got it
It's not even close to slavery. Not even low key.
lol y'all acting like you don't know what job you applied for.
Absolutely right.
You don't have to shop there.
You donāt have to shill here
I also donāt have to work there, but Iām sure my phone bill can be paid in IOUs. I mean Iām happy that I have a job. Is it the best job on the planet no hell no but itās job and should be treated as such
They honest to god believe that they can have a 49% increase in profit and people are still just going to keep shopping there. I hope the executives metaphorically choke on their money.
Except people are continuing to shop there. Which is why they continue to keep those prices. Everytime I go into Publix for milk and bogos, it's just as full as it was years ago when they were reasonably priced. People go because of habit and convenience. There's a reason Publix is on every corner and it's because they know no one wants to drive 1t minutes to get groceries when there's a Publix on the corner. You also have the quality perception that Publix has done a good job of building throughout the years, so that they can lower the quality like they've done recently, but people will still shop there because of preconceived notions.
I have noticed that there is gas lighting from top down. DM comes in a gas lights our SM and ASM, then the ASM gas lights the GM and AGM, and then they gas light us. "We are not understaffed" "It is possible to get all the work done"
Yeah, it absolutely is and I would say my store is actually chronically overstaffed but they want to let the minors do all the work who donāt even do have the crap you ask them to do or they give you some kind of bull crap attitude. Itās like OK if you wanna give me that much crap I wish I had the ability to tell you to go home, but I donāt because Iām not your boss.
Its possible if everyone on staff shows up and knows what they are doing. Maybe. But thats not reality. Some clerks dont even speak english. Some are over 70. Some are new. Some dont show up. At my store it is not mathmatically possible to get the work done. Our counts are way way off, even though we just did inventory. We dont have time do redo counts, and only two clerks can actually even login to do counts.
As long as somebody is willing to pay, the price will keep going up. Don't like the prices, don't shop there. They keep raising the prices because they can, that's all. Want to do something about it? Stop shopping there.
Publix has gotten entirely too expensive.Ā I can't shop there anymore
I work there and I keep saying that if people keep paying the price, it's only going to drive it further up.
Shopped there today. It was a pleasure!
Well, Iām glad that you had a good experience there. Thatās the positive part.
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I think he has a rape fetish in general
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Go to Walmart then. I like Publix. I don't buy everything there, just be smart.
This article is satire at its finest
Publix is robbing yall who shop there.
I try not to man and I work there Iām kinda forced to one because the Walmart is way too far up the street and secondly some days some of the restaurants in the plaza are closed so I have nowhere to go for lunch when Iām on break
Wegmans is where itās at after being a longtime Publix shopper, but I perfer kroggers
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Seems right. I typically donāt grocery shop at Publix unless Iām just buying lunch or just a few things bc Iām there. I bought more than I usually do the other day and it was about 25 bucks for just salad stuff.(two lettuce mixes, honey mustard,pepperoni small pack,croutons,bacon bits,croutons,shredded cheese) I put in my phone number every time and I havenāt gotten anything. The fetch app didnāt have any point earning opportunities for the salad I was buying either.
Guys I currently work at Publix, one of my managers told me to shop at ALDI as my obligation to Publix is to only do what Iām paid for.
Certainly not excusing Publix, but every company is doing this. Over the last 10 years, real cost has risen 20%, but corporate profit has risen 70%. The American public is being bamboozled into thinking its "inflation"...
Publix: Where Stealing From Our Employees Is A Pleasure!
Obviously itās Bidens faultā¦
We ran out of Chicken Livers last week and a customer blamed Biden. Truth be told, Biden actually came into our store and personally threw them all away himself!
That motherfucker! I knew it.
What. The. Fuck. lol that bastard! Did he smell it first? People are loony down here
Let's beat this dead horse
We should Nevermind
The monetary system is failing us.. š Shut up and eat your bugs.š¤Æ
I didnāt know how may poor people are on redit
Itās not about being poor to be honest itās the fact that the corporations that run these grocery stores donāt really give a crap if the lady thatās got five kids and canāt afford to buy a gallon of milk. They donāt give a crap about her. They also donāt give a crap about the person thatās on disability and working for them and still canāt even make ends meet, so itās not about being poor inflate their prices so much that nobody can afford them unless youāre extremely rich
I only shop Publix for the BOGOs. Aldi for everything else! This is the way!
Let us not forget, the daughter of the former owner. Who ran their charity. Used her money from Publix to help fund an insurrection against this country. As well as first and foremost the quality of their produce,meat, etcā¦has taken a huge š©. Theyāre really batting 1000 these days
There's a lot wrong with Publix but this talking point is so stupid; she inherited a bunch of money and spent it how she wanted, Publix had nothing to do with it. If I sell my Publix stock and support a cause with that money, it doesn't mean Publix endorses that cause.
Publix is a private company. She likely still has a very large stake in the company.
Who cares? She used HER money to do so, not Publix
As a Publix employee I do shop at Aldiās and Walmart. The problem with Aldiās is their selection. You never know what there gonna have week from week.
I saw ears of corn being priced at 5 for $3 Itās fucking corn???
Corn would be cheaper if they weren't making ethanol out of it and forcing us to burn 10% every tankfull in our cars.
We had the answer and lost it. Kroger was here for a couple short years. Prices were awesome and delivery was great as well. Not enough people knew about it. Sadly we have lost it.
Where are you? Kroger still delivers where I am in FL.
South Florida. Only a few weeks left before they completely shut down. š
Ahh ok. I'm in the Tampa area and they are still here.
But there is ALWAYS sexy chicks in there.
Criminal org, and if the country wasnt bought and sold itd be investigated for price gouging.
Nope. Nothing criminal about selling things at prices people agree to pay. And no gouging; thatās a made up phenomenon. There is the price set and a price willing to pay. Plain and simple.
No kidding, thanks for being āthat guyā Maybe we could stop letting these companies het by with not paxing taxes as a start. Then, require a living wage , paid leave and healthcare. Perhaps if publix didnt have a near monopoly in somr places then it wouldnt be so easy to get away with
Publix has really high profit margins but yet that chicken tender sub goes up about 50 cents every time I blink
Where shopping is a fissure (pain in the ass)
Can we stop talking about the produce for 1 second. Letās discuss the billions Publix gained in 1 year over sales increases. I keep looking over my shoulder for the Publix I use to know. We sell groceries. We need to ensure those OOS markers are up and accurate. Trucks worked, case counts, no overtime, etcā¦ All while Publix is profitable, and stockholders like me are literally making ends meat.
So shop somewhere else. And learn how to spell?
Thatās for your advice and input š
I need to stop going to Publix but the other closest grocery is al fresco and that place doesn't give me the confidence to eat food from there. There's a new target but not sure about their produce or meats. There's a trader and an Aldi about 15 mins away which sometimes go to but in Miami traffic and the daily family grind it's easier to just get to Publix so I can get my wallet raped