Publix reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(21,111 total reviews)
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61% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Publix has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 21,111 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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1.0
Nov 1, 2019

Buyer Beware

Recommend
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Pros

I learned a lot about baking, mixing, and how to be a better human being to my fellow coworkers.

Cons

I was told that I had finally gotten vacation. I had worked over a year with Publix. At the beginning, working 39.9 hr weeks, but that's not full time. (That's Publix part time hours.) Finally I agreed to a program that would insert me into management. After being shipped from store to store in my local area I got full time. But according to Publix, since I hadn't work one full-time year my vacation hours were just on loan. So when I used them and then gave my two weeks a couple months later (to relocate out of state to take care of my elderly grandmother) they sent me a bill for the hours I owed. Untaxed hours. So, essentially, the last week of my two weeks was paying back my debt/vacation to Publix. I would not be getting a final pay check. I was working for free. 10hr days with no break--because this is Publix and breaks are a luxury. (And while I was full time and supposed to get an hour long break, my boss, at this particular store, set it up that when we did get breaks, we only got thirty minute breaks. A crime all on its own.) But even working that final week, I couldn't pay back all of my debt because they untaxed the hours of my vacation, making it near impossible for me to quit the system of Publix. (It made me feel like an indentured servant. Require to work when I shouldn't have to.) Oh they also never gave my father his bereavement when his brother died (the man who had been taking care of my grandmother) and then sent him a similar bill after he quit to relocate and take care of his mother. Because Publix--where shopping is a pleasure, but working there is a nightmare (once you take your rose colored glasses off). George Jenkins is spinning in his grave with how you are running this place Todd. Publix is in great need of a Union. The things they get away with are criminal. The things they get away with are civil rights my grandparents fought for and to see this company unabashedly abuse people like this makes me sick to my stomach.

2.0
Oct 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Decent benefits Paid vacation days, I believe 7-9 days of the year Long days but more days off than traditional job

Cons

Working in stores WITHOUT a technician sometimes only having a technician for 3-4 hours out of a 12 hour day. Essentially you end up doing the job of the technician and pharmacist but only being compensated for pharmacist pay. Expected to finish all of your work without a technician and not leave any work behind so many days you end up coming in an hour early and leaving 1-2 hours after closing which means you end up working 14-15 hours. Not clear to me that publix is any better than CVS or Walgreens at this point. I remember only a few years ago, things were different. If you’re coming from a CVS or Walgreens and think Publix is the easy life, you may want to reconsider. You end up working in a way that potentially impacts patient safety because you are forced to work like a chicken with your head cut off. Often having lines of people with phone ringing, doctors calling in prescriptions, and angry people yelling at you because they have to wait 30 minutes just to pick-up their prescription because you are literally doing everything by yourself. This significantly increases the chance of you making a mistake and definitely impacts patient care because now half of your time your spending doing technician duties instead of focusing on patient safety. I’d would rather pay the technician out of my pocket or have it come out of my own pay than ti work under those type of conditions. Dont know the owner but from what I hear of him, I think he’d be disgusted with how things are being done. Anyway, some people get lucky and they get the better stores that actually have technicians 90% of the day. Maybe I will get lucky. If not, I’m out of here. Going to end up losing my license or getting sued for malpractice working here

3.0
Sep 19, 2019

eh

Recommend
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Pros

flexible schedule for students, room to grow if your whole life is publix, tuition reimbursement

Cons

inconsistent hours, hit or miss management

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