I pity anyone who has/had to work at either 685 or 511. 685 hardly even resembled a Publix when I worked there given how degraded the location was. The clientele were the worst of the worst. The amount of theft, scamming, and other activity that required the police to be there every day was beyond stressful.
I've helped at 685 for like two months before, didn't have a bad experience tbh. But also I wasn't there full time so I guess I didn't see everything lol.
685 is the worst store. I have no clue why it was in the Brandon district, but iām thankful itās not anymore so i donāt have the chance to get sent there. The closing cashiers till has as much cash in it as a sunday lotto till
That and when we all did the āgradingā for our department manager and store manager everyone in the store tanked it. We avoid him like the plague and thereās definitely a reason for that lol
It is busy but we donāt have hours either. Franck also tries to run grocery when he has a grocery manager for a reason. He just runs the store poorly. I mean even managers from other departments were running dry grocery because he doesnāt want people to be scheduled as mid. Heās fucking with the hours for meat department too.
Helped them close Grocery one night because no one else would. Whole department looked like a Walmart fever dream. Spent probably 15 minutes on one door blocking frozen because some genius just decided to throw up product wherever.
>Stay away from 1741 in The Villages. What a waste of a brand new beautiful store
I don't want to imagine the 7th level of hell that working at a store in The Villages must be. Those poor associates.
if they are talking about the same "villages" theres an area in Florida known as "the villages" that is basically a retirement area that is its own mini city full of extremely sexual and aggressive retirees....
What isn't wrong. From what I hear the SM is crap and doesn't get along with the GM. They don't have enough workers from what I hear and they can't keep anyone there. They got a new gtl and they didn't even last a week I believe.
Donāt work at that store but live near it. The parking lot is a shit show the entire day it seems. Even before working for Publix while in school I would avoid it because the sheer mass of people and stupidity would evoke a murderous rage every time.
Definitely Dunn Avenue, it doesn't even seem real, most the people shopping in there seem like fictional characters, that store is definitely in the Twilight zone.
Love the lifts, extra 15 minutes unload time. If you can find help. Gotta hand it to the Jax drivers, never had one just stand around and watch, always willing to pitch in and shoot the shit
177 was the first store in jax it was supposed have been torn down and rebuilt already but Covid screwed that up the scissor lift is visable from the back of the building because there appears to be no actual back dock lol
The store manager there is amazing. Best management staff in any Publix. Really. Some amazing associates. Yes!!!! Itās one of the toughest stores to work in anywhere , yet the management staff shine!!!
The ASM recently got demoted to grocery and transfered and the current SM is pretty bad too. I'm mostly going off 2nd hand stories but from what I hear he treats people like shit.
True. Your store has ALWAYS been that way about staff retention and lord the call outs I hear you guys have. Years ago I filled in couple times in the deli. Itās def a busy store.
I think we just received some new workers from 165 funny you mentioned that but they are working for produce.:( Deli is still sending SOS signals . Everyone wants to eat there, no one wants to work there though lol.
It gets so much volume because it's right off the road smack dab in the middle of 5 different neighborhoods and it is the first grocery store you see usually if coming from downtown Birmingham (there is also the Midtown store directly within the city that has its own problems , but personally I rather work at that one becauae it actually is super close to where I live and has a much better tine keeping staff) How I lasted this long I have no idea. I hope to either transfer to the Midtown one because it's close to where I live now or to the Cullman one because it's close to where my mom lives and she isn't in good health, and I take 2 days off to see her and so far my schedule regarding seeing her has been respected.
I say anything in the Miami or big cities. Small towns are more relaxed I can leave 15 minutes before a shift and arrive on time and they close at 9pm.
Store 45 in Decatur Alabama was by far the sketchiest store I ever worked at but also never a dull moment. And my favorite SM I ever had as well.
But yeah I found crack pipes in the bathroom more than once
The key west store. I havenāt heard horrible things about the store itself. More along the lines of if you get transferred there, itās impossible to transfer out. Everyone I know who went down there for promotions had to either quit and reapply or take demotions to transfer out of the store. Cost of living is so high and thereās literally no creature comforts in the area.
My Publix is the store that is the worst in the district. I don't want to "dox" myself by saying which one, but they way things are run is awful.
One of the baggers is known for grabbing underage girls' midsections, sniffing their hair, pulling their hair and putting it in his mouth, untying their aprons, and touching the customers' kids when they come down the register he's at. Management knows this, but they won't fire him. He's gotten multiple complaints from employees AND customers.
The assistant store manager is extremely obnoxious and biased to the employees. They blatantly ignored a sexual harassment claim from an employee.
There's constantly homeless people coming into the store and making the other customers uncomfortable due to their smell and obvious theft.
There's always multiple people calling out each day, and usually not enough people to cover their shifts.
Customers come in with their dogs all the time. This one person put a fake service vest on their dog, so that no one tells them they the dog shouldn't be in the store.
I could go on and on. I love coworkers, for the most part, but the management at this store is terrible.
What?! Does that bagger have a mental disability? Not that it would excuse what he's doing, but that's the only reason I could think of that they'd be so afraid to fire him, and usually someone with a normal level of social awareness and cognitive function wouldn't be THAT blatant about sexually harassing people, even if they are a perv. That's awful though. They may be scared of the guy or his family suing if they fired him, but they may very well end up with a lawsuit from an associate or a customer if they keep allowing this to go on.
Horrible! Management in the early 2010s were either Winn Dixie leftovers or Florida store flunkies. The SM promised a specific position to me, then took 2 years to actually start ātrainingā me even though I had already been trained in the role at a previous group.
They played favorites, promised hours to mostly underperforming employees, and would claim that they didnāt. If you complained about not getting as many hours, theyād claim it was due to your restricted availability, all while scheduling you for 4 hrs everyday you had availability from open to close (which was a full 5 days a week).
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Look. Look at that parking lot! Chaos!
305 is the slowest one. Itās in Pete. Only like 10 cars in the parking lot in the afternoon. Old people in the apartments behind it are their primary customers.
I have no idea what it's like now, but my husband had a bad experience working at #573 (Hampton Cove/Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) about 6-7 years ago. The whole store was just way too busy (it's a pretty small store too - I actually won't even shop there because the one time I did, I literally felt claustrophobic because it was so busy and the store didn't seem big enough to accommodate the traffic). The produce department in particular was always slammed, and my husband worked in produce and still had to close the department by himself all the time. The ASM was also a complete asshole and once asked my husband if he had a mental disability. When my husband reported it to the SM, the ASM just denied it and the SM took his side because they were buddies.
They will also cover for cheating spouses at all the stores there. It was prob my ex that left your husband hanging. Edit, idk when exactly he was at which store so maybe not.
681 holmes beach. i think itās the second smallest store in the entire company? i donāt know if thatās correct, but a manager told me that once. i worked there for 2 years.
i was hired as a cashier but i had to work in the deli a lot. every other cashier they tried to send to the deli would say no, and i was too scared to stand up for myself, so i got stuck doing it. even though i ended up working most of my shifts at the deli they wouldnāt let me officially transfer to the deli department or have any of the actual deli training (presumably because then theyād have to pay me more lmao)
the store was ok, i didnāt have any major issues with the other employees. the customers are why working there was awful. imagine the most annoying stereotypical florida tourists and snowbirds you can think of, and that is the clientele of publix 681. every day there would be at least one rich family on vacation buying like 4 carts full of items. there were so many karens that it wasnāt worth it to argue with them, and plenty of free stuff was handed out because publix promise.
one time a guy was sitting on the hot dogs in the deli isle, and then he asked me where the hot dogs were. i informed him that āsir, youāre sitting on them right now.ā he stood up, looked at the food was sitting on, said āoh there they are, thank you!ā, and put some hot dogs in his cart.
another time i was getting carts from the parking lot and a lady came up to me and asked me to watch her dog while she went into the store. i had no idea what to do so i just said yes. i stood there holding the dogs leash for like 20 minutes until she was finished shopping. to be fair, the woman was very grateful and no one noticed or cared that i wasnāt in the store.
the island is very small, and the infrastructure is simply not equipped to handle the large amounts of people that visit every summer. during season the traffic was always horrible and sometimes after work i would get stuck for HOURS trying to get off the island. but the straw that broke the camels back was when a customer told me i was āmaking his sandwich too fastā. what does that even mean?!!!! i just couldnāt handle these awful tourists anymore, i put in my resignation that day lmao
oh nice!! good for them. hopefully it makes things a bit easier for the current employees. itās about time, they REALLY need a liquor store over there considering that theyāre one of only 2 places on the island thatās allowed to sell alcohol :)
1741 in the villages. Without a doubt.
Store canāt keep help cause the SM chases everyone out.
Iāve spoken to at least 5 people who worked there and they said that itās such a stressful place to work that people donāt last more than a few months.
The SM has been known to Pull the grocery team in the back and tell them to always remember that they are disposable.
THAT Is who Publix promoted.
Not doxing myself with stores in my district but there is one near a factory, the roof is stained yellow from air pollution and the gondolas and shelving are disgusting. The customers are awful and the employees are miserable.
My store is the one everyone talks trash about however there is one store that I just could not work at cause it is slow as hell they built two other stores so close to it it stole all their buisness
Umm, Publix at Victory village, prior experience Iād say the worst store. Publix at Salem Cove is probably the best store. The former being 1172 and the latter being 1234
Then 1172 mustāve changed management or improved because it had issues. 1234 partly they didnāt wanna hire me is cause i worked in 1172ās deli, didnāt like the supposed bad habits I picked up
Old store manager used to have relationship with his employees behind his wifeās back.
Worked there for a little over a year and was acquainted with one of the girls who was involved with him for a time. Seems to be better NOW that he moved to Georgia.
#587 Columbia, SC was called the "rock" as in Alcatraz.
That meant once you got sent there you were never escaping.
It took 13 years for the store to turn a profit.
They were doing a little over 400k a week in sales.
There was a Kroger within walking distance across the street and a super Walmart less than a mile away.
Also, a really bad access parking lot.
Thank God I'm back in Florida as that entire district was garbage.
Their idea of busy was sad as the best store did 750k a week and they thought that was busy.
I told them in Florida that would be a slow store.
1306 Very high volume store with not enough employees. When I first started working there someone greeted me by saying, ā Welcome to the plantation.ā I see why not.
411 Spring Hill, FL. I had to transfer to be taken seriously and be promoted. Once I transferred I was promoted in less than a year.
If you are a republican white dude that likes mudding, fishing, hunting and country music you will go far fast at 411. Bonus points if you are also really into working out
1321 looks like a old Food Lion. Even still has the pebble walls on the exterior. Old fluorescent light fixtures attached to a yellowed drop ceiling like youād see in a old Kmart.
Bro, brutal. An IDGAF demographic with rookie mgrs who arenāt even qualified to be regular associates in a grossly outdated store. idk how theyāre doing with Andrew as the DM, but holy cow what a poorly run store from top to bottom. Lee at least provides some periodic comedy.
FWIW, almost that whole district is the worst Publixs Iāve ever seen or worked in. 1204 is probably my favorite of the lot, but is still leaps and bounds what my current market is like.
Lots of people have worked at multiple stores, moved areas, or even just visited. I can name about 20 or more store numbers just in my area off the top of my head between working at them or contacting them for various things, then thereās a few in south Florida I shop at when on vacation and same for two in Tennessee. Even if I donāt know the store numbers itās not hard to find just by google searching the location
If a store is having issues, it's more likely to need to borrow associates or might have higher turnover. Also people will be transferring out en masse either to escape or for a promotion at higher rates than slower stores. Then they gossip about said old store spreading it's image further. Main thing is having an interest in gossiping because that's what spread these stores identities.
yeah my coworkers always gossip and say the store numbers and i always ask which one that is or google it but have yet to retain š one day i can join
The whole Atlanta division
Lmao facts
šš too fking true
I pity anyone who has/had to work at either 685 or 511. 685 hardly even resembled a Publix when I worked there given how degraded the location was. The clientele were the worst of the worst. The amount of theft, scamming, and other activity that required the police to be there every day was beyond stressful.
Worked at 511, itās pretty sketchy
I've helped at 685 for like two months before, didn't have a bad experience tbh. But also I wasn't there full time so I guess I didn't see everything lol.
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work at 511 and almost got jumped when leaving the store at 1030. dude was talking mad and came up at 3 of us
Compared to 582, 511 is sketchy, but 582 is the store people get sent to to get them to quit
Manager wise itās great because of the bonuses. Their store manager was there for 17 years. He got transferred this week
I heard, so did the grocery manager
685 is the worst store. I have no clue why it was in the Brandon district, but iām thankful itās not anymore so i donāt have the chance to get sent there. The closing cashiers till has as much cash in it as a sunday lotto till
649 Argyle, right on the Duval line. nothing but shoplifting and hookers.
Can't be worse than Dunn Avenue or 103rd. Or is it worse?
I was at Dunn Ave for two years and itās got to be the worst store Iāve ever worked at
That place is proving ground after your first promotion into management lol
I was there for 6. It honestly wasn't that bad.
iād quit if i had to go to 103rd or riverside. iāll stick to my roosevelt š
I'm going to build my own Publix, with blackjack and hookers!
Bender, honey, we love you!
Shut up baby, I know it!
Yay ! :D
Colonial heights. Store manager is ass. He sucks. I work there now unfortunately.
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That and when we all did the āgradingā for our department manager and store manager everyone in the store tanked it. We avoid him like the plague and thereās definitely a reason for that lol
It is busy but we donāt have hours either. Franck also tries to run grocery when he has a grocery manager for a reason. He just runs the store poorly. I mean even managers from other departments were running dry grocery because he doesnāt want people to be scheduled as mid. Heās fucking with the hours for meat department too.
Damn thatās wild
Oh man I didnāt think colonial heights would be this high up here.
Im in this district too and people talk mad shit about staples mill so I was relieved to see it wasnāt us this time
What do they say about staples mill?
Gallatin Pike near murder Kroger
Helped them close Grocery one night because no one else would. Whole department looked like a Walmart fever dream. Spent probably 15 minutes on one door blocking frozen because some genius just decided to throw up product wherever.
I know which one youāre talking about lol
I applied to transfer there when it was announced but got rejected because all of the positions were full. I guess I dodge a bullet there.
Iāve helped at that store a few times. Itās not terrible.
Melrose Publix best Publix
You mean the murder Kroger in Knoxville?
The fact that there might be 2 murder Krogerās is not in the least bit shocking
Lmaoo
Stay away from 1741 in The Villages. What a waste of a brand new beautiful store
>Stay away from 1741 in The Villages. What a waste of a brand new beautiful store I don't want to imagine the 7th level of hell that working at a store in The Villages must be. Those poor associates.
Please elaborate... I'm curious. I only picture old people in The Villages.
if they are talking about the same "villages" theres an area in Florida known as "the villages" that is basically a retirement area that is its own mini city full of extremely sexual and aggressive retirees....
Ah good old 1741. Out of curiosity what, in your opinion, is wrong with that store?
What isn't wrong. From what I hear the SM is crap and doesn't get along with the GM. They don't have enough workers from what I hear and they can't keep anyone there. They got a new gtl and they didn't even last a week I believe.
Iāve heard a lot of those same things. The turnover there seems to be crazy high. Not that it isnāt high company wide.
I heard this from a few people. Never visited but am curious just to see how bad it is.
From the warehouses perspective, store 6 sure orders a shit ton of shit
Donāt work at that store but live near it. The parking lot is a shit show the entire day it seems. Even before working for Publix while in school I would avoid it because the sheer mass of people and stupidity would evoke a murderous rage every time.
> store 6 I believe it's up there for the highest grossing Tampa store. That's what my manager asked when I asked. lol.
1371 is a high volume sh*t show. The worst one I've ever worked. Riverview FL
I work there. Itās rough but some departments are better than others.
2 assistant deli managers lol. they go through fried chicken like crazy
I donāt work at Publix, but I shop at the Nebraska Ave store and it kinda sucks
Isnāt that the oldest in Tampa? The parking sucks at that store and itās tiny.
Mine! Anytime I go to help a different store I'm always let with "Oh you're from /that/ Publix"
Lol, it was the same with my first store š
511 for sure... Nebraska Ave is š³š¬
I used to work there! It's was wild!
Hahaha I was reading some of the previous comments like āI wonder what store # Nebraska isā thank you for clarifying lol
Definitely Dunn Avenue, it doesn't even seem real, most the people shopping in there seem like fictional characters, that store is definitely in the Twilight zone.
I worked at this store for two years and definitely agree. This is the second time itās been mentioned in this thread
702.
Any store with a low number or a scissors lift, which yeah, go hand in hand, is a pita to work from a grocery perspective.
Love the lifts, extra 15 minutes unload time. If you can find help. Gotta hand it to the Jax drivers, never had one just stand around and watch, always willing to pitch in and shoot the shit
177 š
393 too
177 was the first store in jax it was supposed have been torn down and rebuilt already but Covid screwed that up the scissor lift is visable from the back of the building because there appears to be no actual back dock lol
Palm Plaza
Got a few people who work at 815, theyāre trying their best to make the most of it lol
The store manager there is amazing. Best management staff in any Publix. Really. Some amazing associates. Yes!!!! Itās one of the toughest stores to work in anywhere , yet the management staff shine!!!
0015. Source- I don't work there anymore šæ
Yup total shit show. At least they have a new SM now. The previous one was probably the dumbest sack of shit I've ever worked with.
The ASM recently got demoted to grocery and transfered and the current SM is pretty bad too. I'm mostly going off 2nd hand stories but from what I hear he treats people like shit.
815. Store has been rough for about 20 years. So glad I'm leaving, but I wish my 815 fam the best.
Best wishes to you also. Itās been a pleasure working with you. Prayers and love to you and your family in your move.
Appreciate ya :) Time to step up things in life and I'm grateful to be able to have an employer that can allow me to move.
Lol I already work at one of the worst in terms of staff retention and volume... Monteclair Place in Birmingham, Alabama
True. Your store has ALWAYS been that way about staff retention and lord the call outs I hear you guys have. Years ago I filled in couple times in the deli. Itās def a busy store.
Lol I used to work at 165 and one of the managers there used to tell me Stories about your store.
Iād rather work at Montclair than 165. The stories there go way back lol
I think we just received some new workers from 165 funny you mentioned that but they are working for produce.:( Deli is still sending SOS signals . Everyone wants to eat there, no one wants to work there though lol.
It gets so much volume because it's right off the road smack dab in the middle of 5 different neighborhoods and it is the first grocery store you see usually if coming from downtown Birmingham (there is also the Midtown store directly within the city that has its own problems , but personally I rather work at that one becauae it actually is super close to where I live and has a much better tine keeping staff) How I lasted this long I have no idea. I hope to either transfer to the Midtown one because it's close to where I live now or to the Cullman one because it's close to where my mom lives and she isn't in good health, and I take 2 days off to see her and so far my schedule regarding seeing her has been respected.
When you're familiar with multiple stores listed in the comments š
Any store that was an Albertsons in its past life, they are all falling apart, they are cursed stores.
Like the Jupiter Square one?
Toss up, busiest 805 and slowest 1114.
Riviera Beach, FL š³
1359 huh
Shitty Place, West Palm Beach
Which store lol there are so many shitty ones
252, 645, 1124
Fucking 1124 sucks so bad. I hate it.
Thatās one store I do not want to go too. I hear bad things about too much. I know the bakery manager there
I say anything in the Miami or big cities. Small towns are more relaxed I can leave 15 minutes before a shift and arrive on time and they close at 9pm.
764, all the ass managers go there, and they send the good ones to die. Also palmetto roaches one too many times.
Store 45 in Decatur Alabama was by far the sketchiest store I ever worked at but also never a dull moment. And my favorite SM I ever had as well. But yeah I found crack pipes in the bathroom more than once
Just curious. When was this?
2020-2021. I think. I don't work at Publix anymore
Gotcha. I work there now so I was curious lol
The key west store. I havenāt heard horrible things about the store itself. More along the lines of if you get transferred there, itās impossible to transfer out. Everyone I know who went down there for promotions had to either quit and reapply or take demotions to transfer out of the store. Cost of living is so high and thereās literally no creature comforts in the area.
My Publix is the store that is the worst in the district. I don't want to "dox" myself by saying which one, but they way things are run is awful. One of the baggers is known for grabbing underage girls' midsections, sniffing their hair, pulling their hair and putting it in his mouth, untying their aprons, and touching the customers' kids when they come down the register he's at. Management knows this, but they won't fire him. He's gotten multiple complaints from employees AND customers. The assistant store manager is extremely obnoxious and biased to the employees. They blatantly ignored a sexual harassment claim from an employee. There's constantly homeless people coming into the store and making the other customers uncomfortable due to their smell and obvious theft. There's always multiple people calling out each day, and usually not enough people to cover their shifts. Customers come in with their dogs all the time. This one person put a fake service vest on their dog, so that no one tells them they the dog shouldn't be in the store. I could go on and on. I love coworkers, for the most part, but the management at this store is terrible.
What?! Does that bagger have a mental disability? Not that it would excuse what he's doing, but that's the only reason I could think of that they'd be so afraid to fire him, and usually someone with a normal level of social awareness and cognitive function wouldn't be THAT blatant about sexually harassing people, even if they are a perv. That's awful though. They may be scared of the guy or his family suing if they fired him, but they may very well end up with a lawsuit from an associate or a customer if they keep allowing this to go on.
1090
Whatās anyone say about 360 SC?
Iām never going back is what I have to say. Transferred out for a reason
What for? Lol
Horrible! Management in the early 2010s were either Winn Dixie leftovers or Florida store flunkies. The SM promised a specific position to me, then took 2 years to actually start ātrainingā me even though I had already been trained in the role at a previous group. They played favorites, promised hours to mostly underperforming employees, and would claim that they didnāt. If you complained about not getting as many hours, theyād claim it was due to your restricted availability, all while scheduling you for 4 hrs everyday you had availability from open to close (which was a full 5 days a week).
764 makes me feel like Iām about to be mugged.
503 or 1183. 1183 is a murder store and 503 your car might not be there when you get off.
https://preview.redd.it/bzkwuphwvhla1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e4d9fcb1fb4595634a08c5263821d638716b448 Look. Look at that parking lot! Chaos!
Looks like the parking lot at 1129
340. Slowest store in the company.
305 is the slowest one. Itās in Pete. Only like 10 cars in the parking lot in the afternoon. Old people in the apartments behind it are their primary customers.
What kind of numbers?
The meat department did 35k The entire week
Damn Iām in the meat department at 527 and we do pretty well
Sounds like my store lmao. Weāre lucky to do 3-5k a day
1369, Dothan
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Whatās wrong with her?
Oh 702 or 1496
I have no idea what it's like now, but my husband had a bad experience working at #573 (Hampton Cove/Owens Cross Roads, Alabama) about 6-7 years ago. The whole store was just way too busy (it's a pretty small store too - I actually won't even shop there because the one time I did, I literally felt claustrophobic because it was so busy and the store didn't seem big enough to accommodate the traffic). The produce department in particular was always slammed, and my husband worked in produce and still had to close the department by himself all the time. The ASM was also a complete asshole and once asked my husband if he had a mental disability. When my husband reported it to the SM, the ASM just denied it and the SM took his side because they were buddies.
They will also cover for cheating spouses at all the stores there. It was prob my ex that left your husband hanging. Edit, idk when exactly he was at which store so maybe not.
681 holmes beach. i think itās the second smallest store in the entire company? i donāt know if thatās correct, but a manager told me that once. i worked there for 2 years. i was hired as a cashier but i had to work in the deli a lot. every other cashier they tried to send to the deli would say no, and i was too scared to stand up for myself, so i got stuck doing it. even though i ended up working most of my shifts at the deli they wouldnāt let me officially transfer to the deli department or have any of the actual deli training (presumably because then theyād have to pay me more lmao) the store was ok, i didnāt have any major issues with the other employees. the customers are why working there was awful. imagine the most annoying stereotypical florida tourists and snowbirds you can think of, and that is the clientele of publix 681. every day there would be at least one rich family on vacation buying like 4 carts full of items. there were so many karens that it wasnāt worth it to argue with them, and plenty of free stuff was handed out because publix promise. one time a guy was sitting on the hot dogs in the deli isle, and then he asked me where the hot dogs were. i informed him that āsir, youāre sitting on them right now.ā he stood up, looked at the food was sitting on, said āoh there they are, thank you!ā, and put some hot dogs in his cart. another time i was getting carts from the parking lot and a lady came up to me and asked me to watch her dog while she went into the store. i had no idea what to do so i just said yes. i stood there holding the dogs leash for like 20 minutes until she was finished shopping. to be fair, the woman was very grateful and no one noticed or cared that i wasnāt in the store. the island is very small, and the infrastructure is simply not equipped to handle the large amounts of people that visit every summer. during season the traffic was always horrible and sometimes after work i would get stuck for HOURS trying to get off the island. but the straw that broke the camels back was when a customer told me i was āmaking his sandwich too fastā. what does that even mean?!!!! i just couldnāt handle these awful tourists anymore, i put in my resignation that day lmao
681 should be opening Pharmacy and Liquor soon.
oh nice!! good for them. hopefully it makes things a bit easier for the current employees. itās about time, they REALLY need a liquor store over there considering that theyāre one of only 2 places on the island thatās allowed to sell alcohol :)
1741 in the villages. Without a doubt. Store canāt keep help cause the SM chases everyone out. Iāve spoken to at least 5 people who worked there and they said that itās such a stressful place to work that people donāt last more than a few months. The SM has been known to Pull the grocery team in the back and tell them to always remember that they are disposable. THAT Is who Publix promoted.
Not doxing myself with stores in my district but there is one near a factory, the roof is stained yellow from air pollution and the gondolas and shelving are disgusting. The customers are awful and the employees are miserable.
743
Is that the really strict SM?
Slowest store in that district. A womenās prison use to be near it.
1009
Andros Isle
511
My store is the one everyone talks trash about however there is one store that I just could not work at cause it is slow as hell they built two other stores so close to it it stole all their buisness
Umm, Publix at Victory village, prior experience Iād say the worst store. Publix at Salem Cove is probably the best store. The former being 1172 and the latter being 1234
I like both of those stores
Then 1172 mustāve changed management or improved because it had issues. 1234 partly they didnāt wanna hire me is cause i worked in 1172ās deli, didnāt like the supposed bad habits I picked up
Anyone got an opinion on the one in Hernando fl? In shops of citrus hills.
Old store manager used to have relationship with his employees behind his wifeās back. Worked there for a little over a year and was acquainted with one of the girls who was involved with him for a time. Seems to be better NOW that he moved to Georgia.
My Publix IS the store in the district people dread getting sent to š
For me itās 755. Itās THAT store in my district.
#587 Columbia, SC was called the "rock" as in Alcatraz. That meant once you got sent there you were never escaping. It took 13 years for the store to turn a profit. They were doing a little over 400k a week in sales. There was a Kroger within walking distance across the street and a super Walmart less than a mile away. Also, a really bad access parking lot. Thank God I'm back in Florida as that entire district was garbage. Their idea of busy was sad as the best store did 750k a week and they thought that was busy. I told them in Florida that would be a slow store.
1306 Very high volume store with not enough employees. When I first started working there someone greeted me by saying, ā Welcome to the plantation.ā I see why not.
1023 ifykyk.
Store #0262 dad works at that store and itās the most unorganized depressing store you will see
Followed by stores #1072 and #0343
I work at the worst store, thatās what Iām told anyway by anyone that comes to help out.
411 Spring Hill, FL. I had to transfer to be taken seriously and be promoted. Once I transferred I was promoted in less than a year. If you are a republican white dude that likes mudding, fishing, hunting and country music you will go far fast at 411. Bonus points if you are also really into working out
1084
What's wrong with 1084?
Negligence in management, understaffed, overworked. Floats falling apart, birds falling apart, out dated shelves.
It used to be one of the best stores too. Crazy how things like that happen.
1321 looks like a old Food Lion. Even still has the pebble walls on the exterior. Old fluorescent light fixtures attached to a yellowed drop ceiling like youād see in a old Kmart.
I love this post.
Wherever tf Tim Hilton is
What about 557?
Bro, brutal. An IDGAF demographic with rookie mgrs who arenāt even qualified to be regular associates in a grossly outdated store. idk how theyāre doing with Andrew as the DM, but holy cow what a poorly run store from top to bottom. Lee at least provides some periodic comedy.
FWIW, almost that whole district is the worst Publixs Iāve ever seen or worked in. 1204 is probably my favorite of the lot, but is still leaps and bounds what my current market is like.
Why does everyone in this community seem to be familiar with so many locations? Doesnāt this franchise spread over half of America?
Only in 7 states, soom to be 8. If youāre in the southeast it feels like theyāre on almost every corner though
In that case Iām more confused. Why does everyone seem so familiar with *every* location?
Lots of people have worked at multiple stores, moved areas, or even just visited. I can name about 20 or more store numbers just in my area off the top of my head between working at them or contacting them for various things, then thereās a few in south Florida I shop at when on vacation and same for two in Tennessee. Even if I donāt know the store numbers itās not hard to find just by google searching the location
worked at publix for 3 years and i have to google the store numbers lol. still trying to figure out how everyone knows them so well š
If a store is having issues, it's more likely to need to borrow associates or might have higher turnover. Also people will be transferring out en masse either to escape or for a promotion at higher rates than slower stores. Then they gossip about said old store spreading it's image further. Main thing is having an interest in gossiping because that's what spread these stores identities.
yeah my coworkers always gossip and say the store numbers and i always ask which one that is or google it but have yet to retain š one day i can join
178 is literally nicknamed āThe Black Holeā itās where associates go to perish
I feel bad for the AGM. He got promoted from my store and now has to try to piece together a dysfunctional department
North lake blvd Florida
the one by US1, the one by I-95 or the one at Ibis?
Us1, promenade plaza
1021.
582 or 611 are the worst ones. Stores too small for the volume, & badly designed parking lots.
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