Publix reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(21,100 total reviews)
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Kevin Murphy

61% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Publix has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 21,100 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Publix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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21K reviews
1.0
Oct 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, decent benefits that's all

Cons

If you're not management & you're not sucking up or sleeping with your managers you are nothing no matter how hard you work. You get blamed for everyone else's failures. You get to stay late & fix their mistakes. If your part time they can give you 2 days while giving others 60 hours but claim they don't have the hours to give. If you don't/can't change your schedule last minute for them, even if you work another job, you better be ready to deal with retaliation. They will stop at NOTHING to show you they will always have the upper hand including falsifying information. Saying you're sending threatening texts yet unable to provide those texts even though you have every text saved in your phone. They wont even look at those texts. Team leads will do whatever to move up even though they go around calling their store manager a fat bleep and talk about their assistant manager being gay with an associate. Dress code only applies to certain people. If you're not white you don't have to abide by the dress code. Assistant store managers hit on female associates & they can't speak up because the DM & store manager will only make up lies to protect them. Yeah, really wonderful place to work for. If you go above them they only bring it back to the store so you have no anonymity. They can't be adults & schedule meetings so you can be prepared for it but instead pounce when you least expect it. Welcome to Publix!

4.0
Sep 17, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the customers and employees are very pleasant. There is a culture of clear communication (the open door policy), and a great emphasis on superior customer service. Employee owned, only employees can buy Publix stock, and it is a good investment opportunity. Many people have earned a lot of money by doing so.

Cons

You'll have to wait a few years to get full-time, there is a long waiting list. Physical and mentally exhausting work, even managers have to put in long hours during nights and weekends. My current manager is very condescending. He follows me when I use the restroom, which is becoming borderline harassment. He plays political games with hours, I only get 0-5 hours when I changed my availability, compared to 15-20 hours before my current store manager moved to my store. Since my salary was raised to forty cents an hour, I get less hours than newer associates. This has happened to other associates I have talked to.

1.0
Sep 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good job for part time kids who are in school.

Cons

If you are looking for full time and you are not an experienced Dept manager don't get you hopes up and don't believe any promises that are made that if you do this or that it will lead to full time. And if you find yourself scheduled for only one day in august don't be surprised. This company does not value its employees and has no regard for their families..

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