First off, Publix offers great buy one get one free offers every week. You don’t have to buy two to get the discount, just one and it will be half off. With coupons you can get a steal on some items. Just so you know, the ads run from Wednesday to Tuesday. They offer a mystery item for a penny with the coupon from the local paper on Sunday and Monday with a ten dollar purchase. Those can be good sometimes. They double all coupons up to 50 cents. They have the best ground beef around. It doesn’t stink as bad when you cook it as Lucky’s beef. I wash all my cooked ground beef(like for tacos) before seasoning anyways. They actually carry the cut of meat used to make the German dish Ruladen. None of the other chains, Piggly Wiggly, or Kroger, do. You can actually get them to cut you meat. That’s nice. They have a decent bakery. They do use too many unnatural things in their baked goods though. Look at the label. A loaf of wheat bread should only have a few ingredients, I know, I make my own at times. They use preservatives, dyes, and high fructose corn syrup a lot in their items. A lot of items are shipped in frozen then cooked. So it’s not actually made fresh. I ordered some petit fours one time and you could tell they were premade. Very disappointing. I would rather make my cakes from scratch as well. Their cakes taste like every other mix out there. Nothing natural or good about it. The fried chicken from the deli is good. The deli meats are nice but rarely on sale. The specialty cheeses are rarely on sale either. The veggies are usually clean and of good quality. They have a decent organic section for the area. The potatoes are always high here for some reason. They are cheaper at Aldi or Kroger. There frozen veggie department is about average. They have a good natural foods frozen section, it just is never on sale, so I can’t shop it often. I shop Kroger’s for my natural frozen foods. They have Cabot cheese which I adore. They also have a great dairy section. Overall, like all stores they are good for somethings and worse at others. I usually shop for the sales there.
Michael s.
Place rating: 3 St Petersburg, FL
Living in San Francisco and being a co-owner of Rainbow Grocery, I’m just a tad spoiled. Okay, I’m spoiled rotten. We have the most amazing selection of organic produce, bulk items, kambucha. but here I am in Decatur, Alabama, far away from my oasis, wondering where the hell I can find some of the things I like to eat without seeming snobbish. Publix is not Rainbow but it is a huge improvement over Walmart or the little Shop n’ Git markets dotting the countryside. They actually have BROWNRICESUSHI! I was in heaven when I saw this. And the sushi maker, I thing his name is Mung, always looks so thankful when someone picks up one of his creations. My fave is the salmon sushi. could eat that morning, noon or night. There’s an incredible calamari salad and they have seaweed salad to boot! There’s only a small piddling of organic produce. right now the fruit section is a bit bare. They do have micro greens in a bag. wow! So some people actually eat something else than iceberg lettuce? I found a comparable Greek yougurt but alas, no kombucha. They have a pretty good Cuban Sandwiich using Boar’s Head meats and their fried chicken in the deli is fair. The staff is VERY friendly and helpful although I hate the over-bagging that occurs on checking out.(No, I don’t need a plastic bag for my granola bar).Prices are reasonable. it’s a relief to find a decent grocery store in my travels.
