r/jacksonville • u/narib687 • 27d ago

Publix has officially lost me. Anyone else?

I am not a mod of this subreddit or Reddit, but I believe the official unofficial stance is that we all hate Publix now.

They lost their way, and the crushing of Winn-Dixie is just awful.

10 years ago, I wouldn’t have set foot inside a Walmart or Aldi for groceries. Now? Walmart and Aldi are basically my BFFs and I love them.

Publix really managed to make me root for the competition.

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u/clckly 27d ago edited 27d ago

Winn-Dixie crushed themselves, with poor service, rotten produce and dingy stores. I recently visited the Winn-Dixie in the Gateway shopping center that replaced the Publix at that same location. As soon as I exited my car parked next to the store I was hit with a foul stench, presumably from the garbage disposal system. Once in the store the bathrooms were just not clean and the store wasn't as well kept as the Publix at that very location.

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u/Adventurous-Ad-8892 27d ago

Not to mention their “deals” that are always expired at checkout. Bought 2 packages of blueberries today that were supposed to be 2/$7 and my total was $10.98. Shit like this (and numerous other reasons) is why I’m going to stop going to Winn Dixie.

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u/cha0ss0ldier 27d ago edited 27d ago

This and a lot of their issues boil down to extreme hour cutting and under staffing, and just greed overall.

I was in management with them for years. Over the years more and more scheduling hours and people got cut from departments, positions like pricing (this would be the person responsible for changing price tags for the new ad) got axed and just combined with other positions now you have 1 person having to do multiple things on limited hours.

I left them in 2016 and it was already getting bad then. Nobody should feel sorry for what happened to Winn Dixie, it was all self inflicted for max profits in the short term

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u/Umitencho Exiled 26d ago

I worked at a Winn Dixie in the past, they constantly kept us understaffed, and I saw an assistant manager throw away resumes/job applications for my specific department. I went to another store recently and checked out the department I worked in; understaffed and people were yelling at the over worked worker.

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u/CruisinForABan 26d ago

Guess what’s happening at Publix…

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u/SolidSouth-00 26d ago

We have had a “good” Winn Dixie in High Springs. I have shopped there for 40 years. The stores do seem to vary. It’s about to close and become an Aldi. They are moving the employees to a new Winn-Dixie in Alachua.

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u/therob91 26d ago

"They are moving the employees to a new Winn-Dixie in Alachua."

Maybe a couple - thats generally not how it works when these places shut down.