Publix

Besides Publix making billions of dollars by fixing prices with all the other corporations to rob us all blind, I even end up throwing away at least 90% of everything I buy from the produce section. The watermelon is never ever sweet or firm.

It's just awful, and I can't see how they can even sell that trash. Grapes are mushy and rotten, peaches are as hard as a rock, romaine lettuce is good only one out of ten packs, blueberries are soft and have no flavor, there's mold on them, except for 10% of the time. I can't take things back or I'd be there every day because the food is so awful and of course, most stores are just the same these days, all selling the same trash and charging the highest rates in history with the worst customer care ever. Employees have no power or can't answer a single question—or at times, they don't speak English in South Florida.

This is what happens when prices are fixed and monopolies all do the exact same thing, we consumers have no choice. Competition is what made this country great, and now there is none.

I work at Publix also and I'm on a Workers Comp case and they treat me like dirt. They give me less and less hours trying to force me to quit so I will settle the case.

They are literally a billion dollar a year business and they want me to settle a back injury that I will have the rest of my life for a MEASLEY amount of money! You are absolutely right they do not treat you as family or like they like to say "owner" because of my stock. BULL!

Terrible company and it's all about the DOLLARS, and bonuses for the managers!!

Publix gets a general low grade in our experience because the store continues to ratchet up prices despite national reports that inflation is generally coming down. A specific example is our grocery shopping experience this morning.

The store had moved its aspirin offerings out of the medication/personal care aisle to a special shelf by the pharmacy hyping the same aspirin we bought previously as an arthritic pain reliever -- as if this makes it okay to charge $23 for a product that costs pennies to make. Of course people use aspirin to ease minor arthritis pain, and also period cramps, occasional headaches and colds. How cynical and outright cruel of Publix to make people py through the nose for pain relief. In the dairy aisle, Publix had reverted to charging $5+ a dozen for eggs -- it had briefly brought the price down to below $3 -- charging $2.50+ for a half dozen.

We saw this upscaling trick used throughout the store, sensitizing consumers to paying more -- a lot more! -- with a buy offering of two-for-the-price-of-one very over-priced item,.

Publix may tell us that its price hikes are not their fault, that "distribution" is the problem. We don't buy it, nor should you.

We do hope Publix reads these reviews because this is just unconscionable. While we're not rah-rah patriots, their prices seem un-American in a particularly low way.

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and their salaries haven't kept pace with the inflationary pricing Publix is indulging in. Nor are its products in many cases luxury or discretionary items.

Its shoppers are trying to put food on the table.

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We ended up not buying aspirin at Publix (at those prices we wonder who would). We will try Dollar General.

I used to be a loyal Publix shopper...for almost 40 years. Now I avoid the store like the plague unless I'm shopping for quick convenience.

When I do shop there, I leave with buyers remorse and I am so mad at myself for paying those outrageous prices! Everything is literally 30% more than other stores. I laugh as I walk down the isle looking at prices. They should be ashamed of themselves!

Not only that, but service has gone wayyyy down hill. No one ever asks to take your groceries out or if you found everything ok..

Maybe it's no longer a policy. But for these prices they should not only be taking my groceries out, they should be driving me home in a Mercedes!

The rating is for their bakery. We've always enjoyed shopping here and never had an issue before, even when I ordered a cake from them several years ago.

This time, however, ordering a cake from them was a complete disaster. I placed the order 2 weeks ahead of time. Plenty of time for them to call me if they had any issues with it. Never heard from them; presumed things were fine.

Showed up about 15 minutes early to pick it up. Was very rudely told it would be ready exactly at the time I'd asked for pick up. OK, not a problem. Was back at the counter right at the exact time, and literally saw them bring out an UNDECORATED cake, they were just starting on.

I had the sinking feeling that was our cake. It was. We watched the lady hurriedly slap the border and side design on the cake. Then another lady came over and asked us if balloons were OK, instead of roses on it.

It was for our 35 year old daughter. I didn't think she'd want balloons. They said, since they were just now doing it, and hadn't made the roses earlier and set them in the freezer, as they should have; the decorations would melt in the extreme heat. They finally looked in their back room and pulled out some plain white gum paste roses.

I'd asked for red and yellow. The lady threw the cake into my hands and walked away. Upon talking to the bakery manager, the best he could do was to spray paint the roses red and add some rushed leaves. I am a baker myself.

Not professionally but have done cakes for big events for people. I, fortunately, had also baked another cake for this; but wanted her to have one really professionally done for this big birthday. That's not what she got in this cake from Publix. We got it home and our granddaughter said it looked like we'd gotten it off the shelf at Walmart!!

I was in tears! Then things got even worse. I had requested it to be 1/2 white and 1/2 chocolate. My husband and daughter in law can not eat chocolate.

Instead of that, it was a layer of each, so those that couldn't eat chocolate, still couldn't have any. Also, the supposedly strawberry filling was barely that. Lots of custard, hardly any strawberries at all. Even with all the issues with the decorations, and knowing it wasn't what we wanted, the bakery manager still charged us full price for it.

In hindsight, I probably should have refused it and gone somewhere else to get one off the shelf and just have them or myself write on it. Will Never order a bakery item from here again and, after the way we were treated, I'm not even sure I'll be shopping here anymore.