It’s a SOUTHern company, with southern views but they do it with a smile. - Marketing Publix Employee Review

2.0
Oct 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The people who you work with do become family. I’ve met people here who will forever hold a place in my heart, they make the bad seem not that bad.

Cons

Not a great a place for innovation. Most managers have been here for 20+ years, in theory that’s good. However, if you hire only within and their children, you get stuck! They don’t take advice on change and it’s frustrating fighting with a person who’s never worked anywhere else in their lifetime. They have that old man stance on life which is: my father did it that in 1406, so that’s what we shall do too in 2019. That also buy their awards, so it’s not the greatest place to work except but a 50 year old caucasian man. By that i mean it’s not subtle racism they practice here, but than again it’s in Lakeland, so Florida.

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Publix Response
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Please know, these are all concerns we take very seriously. We encourage you to take advantage of our open-door policy and discuss these issues with your area's Associate Relations Specialist so that Publix is able to address it effectively.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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