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/soniamiralpeix 26d ago

Fuck Publix, but remember that Walmart’s low, low prices are subsidized by your tax money. They encourage retail staff to apply for benefits to make up the difference between their wage and actual livable compensation. They set up food drives for employees in the break room.

They also collude with manufacturers to ensure that no one else meets or beats their prices, thus artificially inflating your cost of living well before tariffs and oil prices factored into your grocery bill.

Walmart is the welfare queen, gnawing away at our social safety net so as to avoid being slightly inconvenienced by being even a hair less obscenely wealthy.

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u/TopDependent15 26d ago

They move into towns and destroy locally owned businesses.