Every time opened a new tab today, my news feed contains an article about people boycotting Publix.
Make no mistake about it, this is an orchestrated hit job.
‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot
Wendy Mize’s family grew up on Publix, disciples to the giant supermarket chain’s empirical marketing slogan: “Where shopping is a pleasure”. As infants, her three daughters wore diapers bought from the Publix baby club. As children, they munched on free cookies from the bakery. There were even perks for the family’s pets, who are proud members of Publix Paws.
But now the decades-long love affair is over. After a member of Publix’s founding family donated $300,000 to the Donald Trump rally that preceded January’s deadly Capitol riots, Mize is pulling out of what she says has become “an abusive, dysfunctional relationship”, and joining others in a boycott of the Florida-based grocery chain that operates more than 1,200 stores across seven south-eastern states.
How in the hell is it an “abusive, dysfunctional relationship?” She buys groceries there. That’s it. And their customer service is wonderful. So this is all in this crazy woman’s head.
Publix is an institution in Florida, the company growing from Depression-era roots in the 1930s to a regional behemoth with 225,000 workers today, and its founding Jenkins family now worth $8.8bn, according to Forbes. It prides itself on a family-friendly image, luring customers with prominent buy-one-get-one deals and a range of popular sandwich subs, and boasts of being the largest employee-owned company in the US.
How dare Publix lure customers in with good deals and quality food. That’s so insidious.
Their hot bar is the best in the industry. I’d rather have Publix chicken wings than wings from most restaurants. (The garlic Parmesean are the best). Their bakery is good too.
Yet the company and its founders have donated often and generously to partisan, conservative causes, including more than $2m alone by Publix heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli, daughter of the late company founder George Jenkins, to the Republican National Committee and Trump’s failed re-election campaign.
That’s the problem. Publix supports Republicans. That’s the unforgivable sin.
Julie Fancelli has nothing to do with Publix. She inherited some money from her father. That’s it.
But that’s cancel culture today.
Publix has been targeted before.
Readers of this blog know that Publix was targeted by David Hogg and March for Our Lives for support Adam Putnam for Ag Commissioner over Nikki Fried, a lawyer who knows nothing about agriculture but did want to reign in concealed carry and legalize medical marijuana.
Funny how one of the largest purchasers of Florida fruit would want an Ag commissioner who knows something about growing fruit.
Before that, Publix was targeted by LGBT activists for not wanting to pay $15K per year in HIV PREP drugs for employees the way they cover birth control. HIV isn’t a “gay disease” but not paying for a drug to allow individuals to have unprotected sex with HIV positive partners is homophobic.
Keep in mind that Publix partnered with Governor DeSantis to administer the COVID vaccine.
I fully suspect that is why we have the media cheering on another boycott of Publix. They can’t let Publix be a victory for COVID vaccination when Cuomo and Newsom, relying on hospitals and clinics, are having a disastrous time vaccinating people.
The Left is evil enough to all but say “Don’t get your COVID vaccine at Publix because Publix supported the Trump insurrection.”
Hampering the Florida vaccine rollout to hurt DeSantis and harming a company that supports Republicans is a victory twofer for the Left.
Publix has nothing to do with the storming of the Capitol, and they know it.
This is a political hit job to hurt DeSantis and a corporation that won’t toe the Democrat line.
I hope they do boycott. There’ll be fewer dickheads in the store. Also, here in my town in GA there are many black employees, including a number of either Ethiopian or Somali immigrants. If I was management I’d be sure to tell them who’s threatening their jobs. They all have families, too.
… and at the Publix locations near me, they’d be threatening the jobs of lesser-abled folks. There are a number of folks with mental and physical disabilities who man the checkouts.
I, like most people who grew up in Florida, love Publix. Their prices are a tiny bit higher than WalMart, Winn Dixie, or Aldi, but the meat and produce is a much higher quality, the stores are clean, well-lit, and the employees are friendly.
The bakery always has fresh goods, the Deli is outstanding and has the best fried chicken you will get outside of a mom’s kitchen. Their subs are good.
The pharmacy gives out free and discounted medications. My diabetes and blood pressure medicine is free there.
Did I mention that my first job ever was at a Publix as a bag boy? (To be fair I got fired after three months for telling off a mouthy old lady customer)
I continue to be a loyal customer as I have for over 35 years, and will continue to shop there. (Fuck. 35 years? When did I get old?)
If she was mouthy she was no lady. 😁
What a load of crap. These are private citizens donating money, not the company.
I suspect this might work just as badly as the Goya boycott did. Or the Chick-Fil-A one, or the Hobby Lobby one.
Inevitably, there always turn out to be more decent people around who are happy to step up and give business to the attacked company, a lot more than the few lefties making all the noise.
That would be a buycott. I support buycotts.
Another great thing Publix does is donate to various food banks.
But, actually helping people is a lesser accomplishment to the Woke than pretending to care so hard on social media.
If one looks closer at the article, it’s just the Left wing version of a “Two Guys Named Cooter” story, where somebody signals their virtue, and the reporter pretends that it’s a movement.
That’s all it ever is. A handful of malcontents, amplified beyond their numbers and relevance.
And the ironic thing is that a majority of those people will be back to shopping at Publix within a month or two.
Because the power of the Pub Sub compels them.
‘images of the police officer with his head being crushed”
Cool story Karen
But if you ask them for these images you are a “white supremacist”.