Publix was the gold standard
Publix was the gold standard for groceries but has risen prices to the point that it's not possible to buy anything at full price. They are pushing us to buy in "bulk" like you are shopping at Costco since you can only buy things on BOGO for it to make sense. I have 5, yes 5 Publix within a 8 mile radius of me and none of them can figure out when fruit is ripe (pre-cut fruit bowls are always either past ripe and mush or not ripe at all and hard as a rock) I have started returning everything at this point-I'm not going to continue to overpay and then get stuck overpaying for something that isn't even edible. The cut melons are crunchy and tasteless, the strawberries are hard as a rock and tasteless. I almost broke a tooth on the last piece of pineapple I tried that was in a fruit bowl. I would buy the fruit and cut it myslef, but it's all rotten and moldy if you buy a bag or container. They sell you a bag of grapefruit (way overpriced to start) and 2 will be soft, moldy and rotten, so now those precious few that are good now cost the price of gold. Half the time I have to take a picture of the sale sign because when I go to the register to check out the sale doesn't register, or they have left an old sale sign up and it's not really on sale.I wish more Trader Joe's were possible-all grocery has it's problems, but I've never felt I've had to return something so that I wasn't just throwing money at the store. Fresh Market (YES FRESH MARKET) has become a cheaper option-THAT'S RIDDICULOUS. It's FRESH MARKET-they are like Whole Foods-pricey and Boutique, but the food hasn't been as bad. Like the guy from Star Wars would say "IT'S A TRAP"! You SUCK PUBLIX. PS-your mobile site (to find a deal) is slow, down most of the time, and has incorrect pictures for the items it advertises. You are just recycling the same sales every XX weeks-how is it not right?