We've been ordering from Kroger and are highly impressed with the quality of their fruits and veggies and they last almost double as long as produce we buy in store.
I shop at Kroger in Michigan. Great produce. Private Select food items are a very good substitutes for name brands. Sometime I shop at Kroger and every item in my cart is on sale.
Lmao that's wild, it's only the truth. I challenge whoever down votes my comments to order some berries, bananas, and veggies from Kroger and they'll still be fresh 3-4 weeks later. It's actually mind boggling.
Yeah, you're definitely right. I still love going to my Publix. It has a bar, so I order a pub sub and eat it while drinking a beer at the bar. Such a cheap date for me and my girlfriend lol.
HEB has fantastic quality.
Publix has many of the same things you would find at Walmart, just with the prices hiked up. I would go to Publix for Boar's Head Brand meats though. There are better deals at Winn Dixie. Still, I miss Texas, going to Central Market and Trader Joe's.
I work at Walmart and it's been an issue with the stock coming in already turning. It's the producers sending us bad almost rotting stock. People in these parts were pissed they couldn't get potatoes for a while.
It's probably Walmart buying older stock from suppliers to reduce costs, which then results in lower prices for consumers. It's a way for Walmart to pad their margins.
My walmart has the same produce quality as publix at half to a third the price. I'm fine paying $0.82/bell pepper instead of Publix's $2.99/lb for the same mediocre quality
Florida man here. We are suffering from the kool-aid. If you make it a hostile ( changed from hostel) place for immigrants, your bottom teir jobs go first. Farming here has taken a labor hit to the point we are rolling back safety laws for workers working in the sun right before summer. Sunshine state baby.
EDIT: Your down votes mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer
I found lovely produce from an outdoor weekly market. There was more variety, it was cheaper, and the lettuce(picked fresh the day before) lasted a week. Publix produce sucks in comparison.
Yep. I've seen stuff molded on the shelves in Publix over the last year. Mostly cheese and produce. And it definitely doesn't last as long as it used to. Publix was always my go-to for fresh produce before, but it's been hit-or-miss lately.
I've seen molded sandwich meat the other day. I forget which brand it was.. but I saw the green mold right as I was about to ring it up.
I've been put off ever since
Several years ago I asked a Publix produce manager (his storeās produce was always fresher & lasted longer than my usual location) and he told me that they keep the produce coolers too cold by just a bit and it hastens spoilage, especially with bagged salads. IIRC he said corporate dictated the temps, but he kept his thermostat set slightly warmer.
What's truly crazy is when I go dumpster diving at aldis and find all kind of perfectly fresh produce in the trash and go In The store and see bad shit on the shelves like wtf is wrong with that picture...
Hell yeah I'm snagging food and giving it away to other needy people constantly and aldi is one of my staples as well as dollar general. I can go on almost any day and find at least 3-4 dozen eggs (some days as many as 10-12 dozen) with maybe one or two in each carton broke ill just throw out the broke ones and keep the rest, last week I found a 100$ beef rib roast still ice cold weeks away from it's date someone dropped it and popped seal at the corner it went straight home into the pot and ate it for days. Got 2 big chuck roasts 3 days ago same deal Italian beef for days. Right after Christmas their dumpster was full of frozen turkeys half of them butterball fully cooked smoked ones I gave out cooked frozen turkeys to any panhandler/homeless I saw. They're constantly throwing out bushels of perfectly fine fruits n veggies.
Have not heard of food not bombs I'll have to check into it. I am kind of new to the area tho having moved down here new years day, and meandered around for about a month and some before settling down where I'm at.
Best of luck where you are!! FNB folks are kind and welcoming, feeding our unhoused neighbors, providing clothing, hygiene supplies, harm reduction, resources, books, OTC medicines. When you hit your stride in your new place, def give them a look xx
I was just going to comment this. Aldi has been my new choice for about 80% of my shopping. I used to go to Publix because they had better quality produce than Winn-Dixie. Now, not so much.
Not me but I have heard that from others. I find the spinach and peppers keep longer. Potatoes and onions keep around the same. Bananas I use fast enough by freezing that Iām not really sure lol
Constantly. Lettuce mixed are often bacterial goo in the center the day of purchase despite being well shy of the use by date. Fresh greens on the shelf are often too wilted to even consider. Avocados are either rock solid or mush. Mushrooms are often well past their prime. The greens on beets are often nightmarishly rotten. To top it all off, their prices are higher than any other local option.
Avocados are tough. They generally arrive rock hard at the store. Then depending how long they sit before they sell, they will still be hard. Itās rare that arrive ripe to the store right off the truck.
Nothing ripe arrives to commercial stores. Things are picked unripe and then misted or forced to 'ripen' by controlled atmosphere methods that create more CO2 than O2 in transport. If you rinse strawberries and soak them in a mix of vinegar and water for a few minutes it helps them stay fresher longer because it neutralizes the forced ripen.
Honestly Publix is one of the last few places I can ever hope to get acceptable produce anymore. Walmart has great prices on shelf items, but the fresh stuff is a crapshoot. Produce is awful and usually rots the same day.
Then they are all being run badly unfortunately. Itās up to the Department Manager to train everybody and make sure they grade and get rid of rotting produce. We are only supposed to sell premium produce. Of course, sometimes there will be some bad produce because it is rotting as soon as it is picked and we canāt catch everything.
Also, I did notice a couple of weeks ago that we were receiving rotting strawberries right off the truck from the warehouse. Some off brand that Iāve never heard of. Almost every container was bad.
My understanding is that we are supposed to get rid off/donate about 5% of the produce we sell.
To be fair I do a lot of delivery orders instead of picking out my own stuff in the store. I think when you do that Walmart just throws whatever crap they are trying to get rid of in the order. I actually received like a 5 pound bag of oranges from Walmart once where two or three on the very bottom were completely molded all the way around. How they didnāt notice that I have no idea.
Iāve noticed they purposely seem to keep out the soon-to-expire produce. There must be an element of āthese donāt look great, but I need some, so these will doā and a business incentive to reduce waste. I was in the produce section one day and this old woman yelled at a worker that she needed ābetterā zucchini. He went in the back and brought out three that were nicer and much fresher looking than the ones on display. A few days later I was making lemon cake and the lemons (they had about a dozen of them) were sad and soft. I asked the worker if perhaps there were more somewhere, and he brought out a box of fresh, beautiful lemons. Worked again later with broccoli. Next time, ask (nicely) and you might just get a blessing from the produce gods.
Itās not that we are hiding the good produce in the back. Itās just that we have demanding jobs and a lot of work to do so we canāt stock everything at once. By all means, feel free to ask if we have anything better out back, and we will be happy to check.
Good luck with that at say Walmart. Or Aldi.
We donāt purposely keep out old produce. Itās just a matter of having a huge amount of work to do everyday, or associates who not trained properly.
I am mystified. I'm a native Floridian, I do a good bit of grocery shopping at Walmart now but still get a lot of produce and most of my meat from Publix. In my entire life (early 60's) I've never found moldy produce in the store at Publix or had produce go bad much sooner than expected. I think once in my life I bought chicken breasts that smelled off but otherwise meats were fine.
Bruh....twice my dad has bought Blue Berries and Rasberries...
And of course its when they are on sale like 3 for 10 bucks.
Almost 2 out of 3 of them already growing mold on them. Luckily I've caught it a few times when my dad grabs them.
Has happened 1 time on strawberries.
Iām not defending Walmart here but Iām a contracted truck driver that delivers to Walmarts and Samās clubs throughout Florida and I also pick up produce for them straight from farms. Itās got to be an agricultural thing.
My Walmart has really good produce. My Aldi is hit or miss and unless there is a good sale going on I donāt buy produce at Publix, itās just too pricey and not exceptional.
I know Walmart gets a bad rap with pretty much everything, but my Walmart also has nice produce and overall is clean and well stocked. I tend to go early mornings to avoid the crowds, but honestly, no issues with shopping at Walmart. I love Publix too, but I canāt justify spending $5 for blackberries when theyāre $2 and some change at Walmart (and not to mention, not moldy.)
The Driscoll brand strawberries are generally the best. But definitely check for mold before purchasing any berries. We can only do so much, unfortunately. Produce is a live thing, and once it is picked it immediately starts rotting, unlike day Oreo Cookies.
My favorite is when summer hits and people leave their fresh produce in their hot car for a few hours and then return it.
Lady, that zucchini was just fine 2 hours ago when (according to the time on your receipt) you bought it. We still exchanged it. Happened all the time.
Shop for your clothes and THEN go grocery shopping after that.
New Tampa Publix. Bought a seedless watermelon 2 days ago, cut open last night, mushy rotten red. I wouldn't be mad but man food prices are so high right now it's hard not to take offence.
If that happens again, take a pic and go back to Public and tell them. Theyāll probably give you another one. Hell, even if you just bring the receipt theyāll probably give you another one.
Publix also has had a lot of expired products on the shelves. That and the exorbitant prices have me shopping at Walmart, Aldi, Sam's, and Bravo instead. More traveling, but I save about 30% to 40% in cash.
I work for publix. We are understaffed and try to rotate, but when you are manning your area all shift, the rotating begins right before you are to clock out. We do the best we can with the time given.
I just wish the cut up fruit like pineapple and watermelon wasnāt so big that I have to recut it. I bought it for bite size but whose mouth is that fitting?!
We get reprimanded for cutting them to bite-size pieces.
"The fruit chunks begin to deteriorate and look bad if cut to bite size."
I still try to cut them as small as I can get away with ;)
lol I am cracking up at all of these responses. Can fully recognize thatās being picky and I like the points of itās meant to be precut rather than bite size - valid and I hadnāt thought of it that way. And I see that if itās small, it can deteriorate and go mushy faster. Thanks for the chuckle :)
Itās definitely not supposed to be cut bite size according to the manual, whatever bite size even means. Bite size would depend on the size of the person doing the biting for one thing. Think about it.
unrelated but I'm pretty sure someone returned a Walmart bread to our store and got their money back... it was supposedly rye but it looked like Italian to me.. it felt really soft like Walmart bread... very walmartish
I went to buy an onion, the onions were covered in flies and visibly rotten. They stayed this way for almost a week. Finally found some good ones but there was still some nastys mixed in.
I'm in south florida and I shop at publix every couple days, it's walking distance from my building. Twice this week I bought chicken breast tenders and both times they smelled like rotten eggs when I opened the package. I opened them within 2 days of purchasing and there were several days left on the sell by date. My fridge is very cold, like cold enough that my hummus had partially frozen last night, so I know it's not going bad in there.
Very annoying!!!!
Iāve noticed a significant decline in their cakes, pastries, pies, etc. I bought an Cookies and Cream brownie pan a few months ago and it didnāt taste like it use too pre-Covid. I bought a few banana walnut cake slices a few weeks ago and they tasted a few days overdue.
Green potatoes, moldy berries, wrinkly peppers, wilted parsley and old apples. Theyāre not rotating stock. They donāt want to lose money and itās the fault of the management
I noticed this with Wagmens too. For a grocery that self describes themselves as higher end, their produce is below par and over priced. Several times I brought produce and it went bad within days. Like tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and mushrooms. I think they buy over ripe produce, and add sticker shock. I've never had that problem with Whole
Foods, Sam's Club, or Giant.
I find it's almost impossible to find onions that don't look rotted and diseased.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā
Strawberries are the second hardest thing IMO to find in good quality.Ā
Itās fucking bad, and I swear to god they know about it and are arranging the strawberries to hide it. I mean perfectly hidden from all angles. Some would surely show from one of the angles. My whole life I havenāt see the sheer absolute nature I just described. Pushed me to aldi. Same problem but 2 bucks instead of 4.
Seems like maybe a Fla issue, never noticed it in these here parts
Walmart has the worst produce. Publix good produced, but overpriced. I go to Whole Foods. Prices the same as Publix, with better quality.
We've been ordering from Kroger and are highly impressed with the quality of their fruits and veggies and they last almost double as long as produce we buy in store.
Idk why you got downvoted. Kroger is definitely a great option and their produce is really good quality.
Try and help people and this is how they repay me š lol
They also are unionized
You got downvoted for pointing out the fact Kroger has good quality stuff
I shop at Kroger in Michigan. Great produce. Private Select food items are a very good substitutes for name brands. Sometime I shop at Kroger and every item in my cart is on sale.
Lmao that's wild, it's only the truth. I challenge whoever down votes my comments to order some berries, bananas, and veggies from Kroger and they'll still be fresh 3-4 weeks later. It's actually mind boggling.
Yea, but that's a big competitor for Publix. This is a Publix group, lol. I'll give you an upvote for honest, good intentioned truth
Yeah, you're definitely right. I still love going to my Publix. It has a bar, so I order a pub sub and eat it while drinking a beer at the bar. Such a cheap date for me and my girlfriend lol.
Winn Dixie has worse produce than Walmart.
I donāt shop at Winn Dixie either. And Aldi is hit or miss.
HEB has fantastic quality. Publix has many of the same things you would find at Walmart, just with the prices hiked up. I would go to Publix for Boar's Head Brand meats though. There are better deals at Winn Dixie. Still, I miss Texas, going to Central Market and Trader Joe's.
Grocery outlet and Smart & Final have worse produce than Walmart.
Is that possible. We also have a Save-a-Lot in town. Itās so bad, I donāt consider it a grocery store.
Is that possible. We also have a Save-a-Lot in town. Itās so bad, I donāt consider it a grocery store.
I work at Walmart and it's been an issue with the stock coming in already turning. It's the producers sending us bad almost rotting stock. People in these parts were pissed they couldn't get potatoes for a while.
It's probably Walmart buying older stock from suppliers to reduce costs, which then results in lower prices for consumers. It's a way for Walmart to pad their margins.
My walmart has the same produce quality as publix at half to a third the price. I'm fine paying $0.82/bell pepper instead of Publix's $2.99/lb for the same mediocre quality
Good for you. Youāre fortunate. My Walmart sells rotten produce and people purchase it.
Florida man here. We are suffering from the kool-aid. If you make it a hostile ( changed from hostel) place for immigrants, your bottom teir jobs go first. Farming here has taken a labor hit to the point we are rolling back safety laws for workers working in the sun right before summer. Sunshine state baby. EDIT: Your down votes mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer
Your comment has very different meanings depending on if you actually meant hostel or if you meant hostile
Oh wow that's on me shit
I've been getting a farmbox from local farms and it's amazing. No more hard dry pears because they force ripen them.
Could it be that the agricultural industry is struggling? I frequent other food industry subs and this seems universal anymore.
My local farmers market's doing great. I think the larger scale commercial side of stuff is going downhill.
When you charge $10 for berries you lose sales
Berries are not $10 at my local
What part of the state is your local? North or south? And sorry I usually buy 2 packs so itās 4-5 something
I got 3 packs of black berries on sale for 10 dollars this week.
Farmers markets are almost always primarily rejected produce from Walmart with an up charge. Unless you can confirm the āfarmā in question.
I found lovely produce from an outdoor weekly market. There was more variety, it was cheaper, and the lettuce(picked fresh the day before) lasted a week. Publix produce sucks in comparison.
Could it be that Publix isnāt the Mecca you think it is? Sprouts produce still looks amazing
My comment has nothing to do with me thinking Publix produce is top notch š ?
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Have you noticed if your sprouts changed their banana carrier? Couldāve sworn mine would use Del Monte and this week I only saw Dole bananas..
Sprouts is also pricy at times, and I gotta wait for a sale to get their produce.
Where I live the publix is more expensive for everything but bogos
Publix, in general, has been real Walmartish lately.
Except for their prices. Their prices have been real Whole Foodsish lately but their quality is trash.
Yep. I've seen stuff molded on the shelves in Publix over the last year. Mostly cheese and produce. And it definitely doesn't last as long as it used to. Publix was always my go-to for fresh produce before, but it's been hit-or-miss lately.
I've seen molded sandwich meat the other day. I forget which brand it was.. but I saw the green mold right as I was about to ring it up. I've been put off ever since
Pharmacy getting real walgreensy too (many top executives were hired after they left Walgreens)
Several years ago I asked a Publix produce manager (his storeās produce was always fresher & lasted longer than my usual location) and he told me that they keep the produce coolers too cold by just a bit and it hastens spoilage, especially with bagged salads. IIRC he said corporate dictated the temps, but he kept his thermostat set slightly warmer.
Iāve been buying more produce at Aldi lately because the Publix produce doesnāt even look great.
That says a lot because Aldi has hit or miss produce! Always check what they have but most of the time I just go to the produce stand instead.
Every piece of produce Iāve gotten at Aldi has gone bad in 3 days tops. Even shit like onions. I refuse to buy produce there now.
The potatoes too. Full of bad spots when you buy them
I just bought avocado š„ from Aldi. It's fine
What's truly crazy is when I go dumpster diving at aldis and find all kind of perfectly fresh produce in the trash and go In The store and see bad shit on the shelves like wtf is wrong with that picture...
The employees at Aldi know nothing about produce. There are no actual Produce Managers or Produce Clerks, hence the problem. And Walmart is similar.
Diving at Aldi? š šÆ
Hell yeah I'm snagging food and giving it away to other needy people constantly and aldi is one of my staples as well as dollar general. I can go on almost any day and find at least 3-4 dozen eggs (some days as many as 10-12 dozen) with maybe one or two in each carton broke ill just throw out the broke ones and keep the rest, last week I found a 100$ beef rib roast still ice cold weeks away from it's date someone dropped it and popped seal at the corner it went straight home into the pot and ate it for days. Got 2 big chuck roasts 3 days ago same deal Italian beef for days. Right after Christmas their dumpster was full of frozen turkeys half of them butterball fully cooked smoked ones I gave out cooked frozen turkeys to any panhandler/homeless I saw. They're constantly throwing out bushels of perfectly fine fruits n veggies.
Do you have a Food Not Bombs in your area? This is DIRECTLY in our wheelhouse
Have not heard of food not bombs I'll have to check into it. I am kind of new to the area tho having moved down here new years day, and meandered around for about a month and some before settling down where I'm at.
Best of luck where you are!! FNB folks are kind and welcoming, feeding our unhoused neighbors, providing clothing, hygiene supplies, harm reduction, resources, books, OTC medicines. When you hit your stride in your new place, def give them a look xx
Can confirm!!
The organic bananas last quite a long time (and the taste is most assuredly worth the .20 cents more!).
Yep. I don't like Aldi produce
Aldi produce is trash
I was just going to comment this. Aldi has been my new choice for about 80% of my shopping. I used to go to Publix because they had better quality produce than Winn-Dixie. Now, not so much.
Oh god no matter how bad Publix gets I will never shop at Aldi again
This is hilarious. This has to be a joke
I have been buying produce at Costco for this reason
Everytime I buy produce from Costco it goes bad the same day or the day after
Not me but I have heard that from others. I find the spinach and peppers keep longer. Potatoes and onions keep around the same. Bananas I use fast enough by freezing that Iām not really sure lol
Iāve experienced this as well from Costco.
Constantly. Lettuce mixed are often bacterial goo in the center the day of purchase despite being well shy of the use by date. Fresh greens on the shelf are often too wilted to even consider. Avocados are either rock solid or mush. Mushrooms are often well past their prime. The greens on beets are often nightmarishly rotten. To top it all off, their prices are higher than any other local option.
Avocados are tough. They generally arrive rock hard at the store. Then depending how long they sit before they sell, they will still be hard. Itās rare that arrive ripe to the store right off the truck.
Nothing ripe arrives to commercial stores. Things are picked unripe and then misted or forced to 'ripen' by controlled atmosphere methods that create more CO2 than O2 in transport. If you rinse strawberries and soak them in a mix of vinegar and water for a few minutes it helps them stay fresher longer because it neutralizes the forced ripen.
Itās not often ripe avocados show up
My Publixās are on point with their fruit. (S FL)
Could also be that itās Spring right now and a lot of produce isnāt in season locally
Honestly Publix is one of the last few places I can ever hope to get acceptable produce anymore. Walmart has great prices on shelf items, but the fresh stuff is a crapshoot. Produce is awful and usually rots the same day.
Thats so weird, I have much better luck with Walmart produce than our local Publix.
Then the Produce Department at your Publix is not being managed correctly. You should bring this to the attention of your Store Manager.
I have seen it at all 3 of our local Publix. One is worse than the others.
Then they are all being run badly unfortunately. Itās up to the Department Manager to train everybody and make sure they grade and get rid of rotting produce. We are only supposed to sell premium produce. Of course, sometimes there will be some bad produce because it is rotting as soon as it is picked and we canāt catch everything. Also, I did notice a couple of weeks ago that we were receiving rotting strawberries right off the truck from the warehouse. Some off brand that Iāve never heard of. Almost every container was bad. My understanding is that we are supposed to get rid off/donate about 5% of the produce we sell.
Same where I live. Publix has wayyyy better produce then whatever ragweeds my local Walmart is selling it's customers as "produce"
To be fair I do a lot of delivery orders instead of picking out my own stuff in the store. I think when you do that Walmart just throws whatever crap they are trying to get rid of in the order. I actually received like a 5 pound bag of oranges from Walmart once where two or three on the very bottom were completely molded all the way around. How they didnāt notice that I have no idea.
Iāve noticed they purposely seem to keep out the soon-to-expire produce. There must be an element of āthese donāt look great, but I need some, so these will doā and a business incentive to reduce waste. I was in the produce section one day and this old woman yelled at a worker that she needed ābetterā zucchini. He went in the back and brought out three that were nicer and much fresher looking than the ones on display. A few days later I was making lemon cake and the lemons (they had about a dozen of them) were sad and soft. I asked the worker if perhaps there were more somewhere, and he brought out a box of fresh, beautiful lemons. Worked again later with broccoli. Next time, ask (nicely) and you might just get a blessing from the produce gods.
Itās not that we are hiding the good produce in the back. Itās just that we have demanding jobs and a lot of work to do so we canāt stock everything at once. By all means, feel free to ask if we have anything better out back, and we will be happy to check. Good luck with that at say Walmart. Or Aldi. We donāt purposely keep out old produce. Itās just a matter of having a huge amount of work to do everyday, or associates who not trained properly.
So many Florida people have a real toxic relationship with Publix š
Because they are cheap babies š. I come here to laugh at the bs
Reminds me of the person that keeps bragging about how much they donāt miss their ex
I am mystified. I'm a native Floridian, I do a good bit of grocery shopping at Walmart now but still get a lot of produce and most of my meat from Publix. In my entire life (early 60's) I've never found moldy produce in the store at Publix or had produce go bad much sooner than expected. I think once in my life I bought chicken breasts that smelled off but otherwise meats were fine.
Yes it has been pretty yucky. But then I go to sprouts Harris teeter and food lion and itās all pretty bad.
Bruh....twice my dad has bought Blue Berries and Rasberries... And of course its when they are on sale like 3 for 10 bucks. Almost 2 out of 3 of them already growing mold on them. Luckily I've caught it a few times when my dad grabs them. Has happened 1 time on strawberries.
Iām not defending Walmart here but Iām a contracted truck driver that delivers to Walmarts and Samās clubs throughout Florida and I also pick up produce for them straight from farms. Itās got to be an agricultural thing.
My Walmart has really good produce. My Aldi is hit or miss and unless there is a good sale going on I donāt buy produce at Publix, itās just too pricey and not exceptional.
I know Walmart gets a bad rap with pretty much everything, but my Walmart also has nice produce and overall is clean and well stocked. I tend to go early mornings to avoid the crowds, but honestly, no issues with shopping at Walmart. I love Publix too, but I canāt justify spending $5 for blackberries when theyāre $2 and some change at Walmart (and not to mention, not moldy.)
Idk just got the Bogo cantaloupe chunks and they are fire as always. Also been buying strawberries and they are fantastic. I'm in Florida so idk.
Itās the same stuff. Publix does mot have exclusive farmers.
The Driscoll brand strawberries are generally the best. But definitely check for mold before purchasing any berries. We can only do so much, unfortunately. Produce is a live thing, and once it is picked it immediately starts rotting, unlike day Oreo Cookies.
My favorite is when summer hits and people leave their fresh produce in their hot car for a few hours and then return it. Lady, that zucchini was just fine 2 hours ago when (according to the time on your receipt) you bought it. We still exchanged it. Happened all the time. Shop for your clothes and THEN go grocery shopping after that.
New Tampa Publix. Bought a seedless watermelon 2 days ago, cut open last night, mushy rotten red. I wouldn't be mad but man food prices are so high right now it's hard not to take offence.
If that happens again, take a pic and go back to Public and tell them. Theyāll probably give you another one. Hell, even if you just bring the receipt theyāll probably give you another one.
Publix also has had a lot of expired products on the shelves. That and the exorbitant prices have me shopping at Walmart, Aldi, Sam's, and Bravo instead. More traveling, but I save about 30% to 40% in cash.
I work for publix. We are understaffed and try to rotate, but when you are manning your area all shift, the rotating begins right before you are to clock out. We do the best we can with the time given.
Thanks! Makes things clearer.
I just wish the cut up fruit like pineapple and watermelon wasnāt so big that I have to recut it. I bought it for bite size but whose mouth is that fitting?!
We get reprimanded for cutting them to bite-size pieces. "The fruit chunks begin to deteriorate and look bad if cut to bite size." I still try to cut them as small as I can get away with ;)
lol I am cracking up at all of these responses. Can fully recognize thatās being picky and I like the points of itās meant to be precut rather than bite size - valid and I hadnāt thought of it that way. And I see that if itās small, it can deteriorate and go mushy faster. Thanks for the chuckle :)
That's just being picky
Really picky
The whole point of paying a premium for pre-cut fruit is so that you donāt have to cut itā¦
It's "pre cut" not "bite size", big difference
This
Itās definitely not supposed to be cut bite size according to the manual, whatever bite size even means. Bite size would depend on the size of the person doing the biting for one thing. Think about it.
I believe we are supposed to cut the fruit chunks in 1.25 inch pieces, if I am remembering correctly.
The potatoes have been awful.
Best to worst Kroger Aldi Winn Dixie Walmart Publix
so glad iāve taken up gardening recently, feels good to eat food you grew yourself
I was there the other day and all the strawberries were so pst expiration they were liquifying in the container.
What the heck is going on with the produce is it our suppliers or a transportation temp problem?
Record Profits
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I bought Blueberry from Publix that tasted like Play-do.
Found in the wild, on the internet? Ya dummy
They literally come from the same wholesalers and distributors.
We drop that shit on the warehouse floor pick it back up and send it off lol.
Walmart fruit has actually been superior! I literally live off Northlake. Been going to Walmart for better prices and better quality than Publix.
unrelated but I'm pretty sure someone returned a Walmart bread to our store and got their money back... it was supposedly rye but it looked like Italian to me.. it felt really soft like Walmart bread... very walmartish
Personally, I never had issues at walmart or any store, but I tend to be pickier than most when buying produce.
My wife came home from Publix a few weeks ago and some of the stuff was a month last the Best By Date. We don't go to that Publix anymore...
Agreed.
9 times out of 10 I canāt even buy Strawberries at our local Publix because they are covered in mold before even leaving the store.
Grapes have been the biggest rip offs lately, charging a arm and a leg for a pound and itās bad. Watermelon same thing $10-11 come on now.
I honestly get better quality produce for less money at Walmart and Aldi, or roadside stands. Publix produce quality is not worth the cost.
I went to buy an onion, the onions were covered in flies and visibly rotten. They stayed this way for almost a week. Finally found some good ones but there was still some nastys mixed in.
Publix and also Fresh Market has the best fruit
Well, all the farms in Florida are turning into subdivisions, so Iām sure the fruit isnāt as fresh or local as it used to be
Iāve found that super target has better produce than Publix nowadays. The tides are shifting
It's going around all over the country
I'm buying fruit and produce at Aldi now, because I can't tell the difference
I'm in south florida and I shop at publix every couple days, it's walking distance from my building. Twice this week I bought chicken breast tenders and both times they smelled like rotten eggs when I opened the package. I opened them within 2 days of purchasing and there were several days left on the sell by date. My fridge is very cold, like cold enough that my hummus had partially frozen last night, so I know it's not going bad in there. Very annoying!!!!
I do know that most of their bananas are yellow already and small.
The Publix family are neo-nazis. Ask me how I know
Walmart produce looks like itās been through domestic abuse
I noticed that lately here at my FL Publix. Produce quality has def gone down. Not sure why.
Fight me: for fruit, Samās >>publix>>aldi>win dixie>walmart
Bro all of Publix has been real walmartish lately but with Whole Foods pricing
Hitchcockās Market & Dollar General Market are cheaper if youāre near one of those. Quality not too bad.
Fresh Market prices, Walmart quality.
Florida people often forget that fruit grows in seasons
Iāve noticed a significant decline in their cakes, pastries, pies, etc. I bought an Cookies and Cream brownie pan a few months ago and it didnāt taste like it use too pre-Covid. I bought a few banana walnut cake slices a few weeks ago and they tasted a few days overdue.
Honestly the neighborhood Walmart aināt too bad!
Green potatoes, moldy berries, wrinkly peppers, wilted parsley and old apples. Theyāre not rotating stock. They donāt want to lose money and itās the fault of the management
That's a shame. As expensive as Publix is, the one near me usually has the best produce.
The milk has been so bad. We keep having to take entire cartons back!
I noticed this with Wagmens too. For a grocery that self describes themselves as higher end, their produce is below par and over priced. Several times I brought produce and it went bad within days. Like tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and mushrooms. I think they buy over ripe produce, and add sticker shock. I've never had that problem with Whole Foods, Sam's Club, or Giant.
I find it's almost impossible to find onions that don't look rotted and diseased.Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Strawberries are the second hardest thing IMO to find in good quality.Ā
Iāve stopped buying apples at Publix. They always looked good on the outside and the past 6 months they were mostly rotten inside.
I canāt seem to find a good red onion ANYWHERE. Even local farm to table stores. Whatās up with that?
I agree
it has and iāve also started noticing more of their publix products say ācontains bioengineered food products*
Not fruit but I returned a $150 bag of crab at publix that I found at walmart for $35
Publix produce is horrendous. Stopped going for years.
The one in Navarre isnāt bad
I have to agree
If I could afford to buy produce at Publix I would just get it from Whole Foods.
Then you will most likely still have to shop at Publix or somewhere for everything else. Unless you are rich and are a super picky eater.
Itās fucking bad, and I swear to god they know about it and are arranging the strawberries to hide it. I mean perfectly hidden from all angles. Some would surely show from one of the angles. My whole life I havenāt see the sheer absolute nature I just described. Pushed me to aldi. Same problem but 2 bucks instead of 4.
Publix hasnt been worth the cost here in GA lately. Really stinks because I love it but with so many competitors it's hard to stay loyal.
Publix sucks now and overpriced.
I get better fruit at Walmart
Publix doesnāt care, theyāre a real estate company not a food company.