Publix - Grocery Team Leader Publix Employee Review

4.0
Jul 15, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent pay and advancement opportunities. Yearly 8-12% stock given for free based on previous year salary. Good PTO and sick time accrual. Good 401k. Stock dividends paid out quarterly. Company cares about the customer and will do whatever they can to help customer find products in store or order it for them from warehouse. Managers usually are good at training new associates.

Cons

Management will talk about you behind your back to other managers and associates for even the slightest misstep. You must be able to throw 55-65 cases per hour consistently. If you are a team lead like I was you are expected to do the managers job for them. You are supposed to force associates to do their job, but don't have any power to take disciplinary action. Managers and especially team leads must work overnight 10pm-6am or 12am -8am either scheduled or last minute if upper management feels that it is needed. It is mandatory. You bleed green whether you like it or not. In recent years management lacked the ability to hire quality associates so it was more and more difficult to get people to do their job the way management wanted them to.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 29, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing 401K, free stock after one year of employment, health insurance is very good for part-time employees if only getting it for yourself, management always approves time off requests, hours are always available, will work around school schedules, tuition reimbursement program, will reimburse you for gas for work-related expenses as needed and will put you in a hotel as needed for work-related reasons that are more than 50 miles from your home.

Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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