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I like Publix. One thing you can count on when you walk into a Publix is that it is going to be clean. Thier customer service is excellent also,e.g. if they see a line getting to deep they will open another checkout. I don't mind paying a little extra for groceries if I come out of the place satisfied. It's been thier slogan for years......'where shopping is a pleasure' and when I leave Publix I can say it truly was.

[FSUMike]

to the OP - If you don't like Publix, don't shop there! The reason Publix may seem to have a monopoly is because they are superior to and out-compete the other grocery stores. No one is stopping other chains from coming in to Florida, they just know it will be very difficult to compete with Publix.

How can you have a problem with them helping people out to their cars? It's one of the last remnants of our old Southern hospitality that we still have in Florida, and my wife often shops while I'm at work and she brings our small baby with her, and it is very difficult for her to load up her groceries by herself.

You are not required to have a bagger assist you out. Just say "no thanks". So what if able-bodied people still take advantage of the bagger's help?? I worked at Publix while I was in high school and part of college, and the baggers enjoy the chance to get outside for a few minutes and help people to their cars.

If the practice was truly inefficient, they would stop doing it. Publix makes more profit because of their SUPERIOR CUSTOMER SERVICE.

I don't give a crap how they do it in your country, just shop at Winn-Dixie if Publix bothers you. We people with brains will continue to shop at the superior grocery store and more than make up for the money that you take elsewhere.

[EnjoyTheSilence]

Originally Posted by FSUMike

to the OP - If you don't like Publix, don't shop there! The reason Publix may seem to have a monopoly is because they are superior to and out-compete the other grocery stores. No one is stopping other chains from coming in to Florida, they just know it will be very difficult to compete with Publix.

How can you have a problem with them helping people out to their cars? It's one of the last remnants of our old Southern hospitality that we still have in Florida, and my wife often shops while I'm at work and she brings our small baby with her, and it is very difficult for her to load up her groceries by herself.

You are not required to have a bagger assist you out. Just say "no thanks". So what if able-bodied people still take advantage of the bagger's help?? I worked at Publix while I was in high school and part of college, and the baggers enjoy the chance to get outside for a few minutes and help people to their cars.

If the practice was truly inefficient, they would stop doing it. Publix makes more profit because of their SUPERIOR CUSTOMER SERVICE.

I don't give a crap how they do it in your country, just shop at Winn-Dixie if Publix bothers you. We people with brains will continue to shop at the superior grocery store and more than make up for the money that you take elsewhere.

Winn-Dixie? No thanks! Those stores are way too crowded & cluttered and in all honesty, Winn-Dixie are no cheaper than Publix, even though they look like they *should* be cheaper!!

How they do it in my country....let me tell you...efficiency, competition, 24 hour shopping, you bag your own groceries and take your own groceries to your car. The Publix concept is just a little alien to me....as good as it may be to some.

[lagoon7]

Publix has driven out all other markets in Gainesville. I think there's a Fresh Market, which is really a niche store. I've never seen so many of one kind of supermarket in one town. If you get off the highway at exit 384, you're within 5 minutes of four or five Publixes.

I'm pretty ambivalent toward them, generally. Supermarkets are pretty much the same.

[TNRyan23]

Originally Posted by lagoon7

Publix has driven out all other markets in Gainesville. I think there's a Fresh Market, which is really a niche store. I've never seen so many of one kind of supermarket in one town. If you get off the highway at exit 384, you're within 5 minutes of four or five Publixes.

I'm pretty ambivalent toward them, generally. Supermarkets are pretty much the same.

I'm supprised that in that area of the state that there are no Piggly Wiggly's or IGA markets.

[annerk]

Originally Posted by BCreass

Whoaaaa.....

Firstly, I don't hate Publix, FFS! I don't have some sort of vendetta against them, nor do I think they are particularly horrible. Secondly, I do know what a monopoly is...geez.

Can't someone express their opinions on here without people getting all defensive, as if I insulted their mothers or something?

Heck, I just said that I wish there was more choice down here. I've never been to any Publix north of Fort Lauderdale, so if the Publix supermarkets in the rest of Florida are amazing, I accept that and subsequently bow down to your retail expertise! I can only comment on the Publix supermarkets I've been to down here, particularly in South Miami.

...and for those who say there is variety, there's no Target here that sells food. The nearest Wal-Mart that sells food is 12 exits up the Palmetto Expressway and Winn-Dixie here does absolutely suck and isn't even in Publix's league as a major supermarket chain.

Florida really needs: Online Grocery Shopping & Delivery Service - Tesco.com

'nuff said.

In Orlando we have online shopping and delivery.

[Granny Sue]

Originally Posted by BCreass

Whoaaaa.....

Firstly, I don't hate Publix, FFS! I don't have some sort of vendetta against them, nor do I think they are particularly horrible. Secondly, I do know what a monopoly is...geez.

Can't someone express their opinions on here without people getting all defensive, as if I insulted their mothers or something?

Heck, I just said that I wish there was more choice down here. I've never been to any Publix north of Fort Lauderdale, so if the Publix supermarkets in the rest of Florida are amazing, I accept that and subsequently bow down to your retail expertise! I can only comment on the Publix supermarkets I've been to down here, particularly in South Miami.

...and for those who say there is variety, there's no Target here that sells food. The nearest Wal-Mart that sells food is 12 exits up the Palmetto Expressway and Winn-Dixie here does absolutely suck and isn't even in Publix's league as a major supermarket chain.

Florida really needs: Online Grocery Shopping & Delivery Service - Tesco.com

'nuff said.

Yes, you can voice your opinion on here but you also have to deal with opinions that are different from yours. And most of the responses were people not agreeing with you.
So you see EVERYONE in entitled to opinions.

You strike a nerve with a lot of people in Florida when you start talking about just how good it is "from where I come from"

"nuff said

[phonelady61]

Originally Posted by projectmaximus

Agreed, Jax has plenty of options. Publix, Winn Dixie, Food Lion, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, and of course those local stores (...not counting Winn Dixie, lol). Albertsons had a big presence here til Publix bought all their stores. Then there is WalMart, Target, and the member-clubs like Costco, Sams, and BJs as well. All that said, Jax is a huge spread out area, so some of these stores do not compete at all (in different parts of the city). Rumor has it there's a Trader Joes on the way to Jax, as well as a number of other FL locations...that will be nice.

That is great since I having to move back down to florida by the end of may . I have shopped at traders joes in cincy and loved it . gosh I hope trader joes does move to florida that would be so nice !!!yahoo!!!

[beachmouse]

I think of Piggly Wiggly as only showing up in really small towns. Only place I've seen them in Florida was in Port St. Joe in the Big Bend.

I'd love to see Meijer (the original 24 hour supercenter) down here. I know that they've looked at land in Atlanta in the past, and they'd have a built-in following among relocated Midwesterners in the Orlando-Tampa-Naples triangle. But their management is pretty conservative and probably wouldn't go for expanding so far away from the mothership and so deep into an area that Walmart has marked as their own.

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I think it's completely inappropriate for someone to come on and bash things with no constructive purpose in mind simply because they are done differently then they are someplace else.