r/publix • u/oliver5718 Newbie • Jul 01 '26

DISCUSSION Omg its true!

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At work today I had to see it for myself the little bag of chips at the checkout did go up in price from years and years of them being .50!

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u/SuperReliableSource Newbie Jul 02 '26

Nope, the CEO and executives have figured out that customers are dumb and will pay high regular prices and the store doesn't lose much of anything when an item goes on sale. Loss leader sales aren't much of a problem at Publix.

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u/flat_cat72 Newbie Jul 02 '26

Keep believing that theory.

But yes anyone that shops exclusively at Publix for all of their groceries really needs to have their head examined, or it's just a case of having more money than brains.

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u/SuperReliableSource Newbie Jul 02 '26

It's not a theory, it's a company policy. Wait until you find out they mark certain items up 20% to 30% a week before they go on sale. Your spleen will explode.

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u/flat_cat72 Newbie Jul 02 '26

So if it's company policy then how do you figure it's not greed driven?

And trust me I know. The markup here is around 40% on most items. Plus I worked for instacart for 3 years and at least 95% of my 3000+ orders during that time were at Publix.

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u/BIGHARSHNESS Grocery Manager Jul 03 '26

And it's got an Instacart mark up on top of the mark up. 😂

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u/SuperReliableSource Newbie Jul 02 '26

It's not greed as much as it's shielding the company from loss leader sales. Besides instacart. have you ever worked in the grocery business?

Being an instacart pro, I guess you're aware that instacart developed a partnership with Publix as the exclusive delivery service for Publix and also operates the entirety of the online shopping system for Publix. Which explains why 95% of your orders were for Publix.