A terrible company still coasting on its good reputation from the mid 1900s - Associate Publix Employee Review

1.0
Nov 20, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It's not going out of business any time soon - the job is reliable and safe if you're a hard worker

Cons

Every year, more benefits are taken away. Corporate hides it behind professional-sounding jargon. They try to make it sound like they're doing it for the employees, but we're losing bonuses, getting smaller raises, losing sick/vacation time, etc. Corporate micromanagers every little detail of every department. They can't fathom that stores in different areas should operate differently because they want everything done one way. One store only has a few customers until 10 AM, while another store has scores of customers upon opening + dozens of online orders and platters? Still staffed the same. We're encouraged to put out more than we sell. Overproduce to make the shelves look pretty. Every night, hundreds of pounds of wasted food and plastic are thrown away. I don't even want to think about the detrimental environmental effects Publix inflicts throughout all its stores across the East Coast.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Good job good coworker to be honest

Cons

Low pay and boring work

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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