Don't work here - Anonymous employee Publix Employee Review

1.0
5 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee stock purchasing options. And nothing else.

Cons

You'll never get two days off in a row, and when management is confronted by it, they'll give you some lame excuse as to why it's "impossible" to have two days off just to recuperate from the back-breaking work they expect of you from this company. If you're "full time," just expect to pick up the slack of lazy, non-committal "part time" employees who can pick and choose when they're available to work, leaving "full-timers" with all the bad shifts. Meaning, no work-life balance. You won't get an employee discount, but they're happy to provide discounts to students who don't even work there. Sanitation and food safety is a joke. Management doesn't care about food safety unless they're being audited by Steritech, otherwise they'll force you to put out ready to eat product that's been mishandled or not at temp.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
29 May 2026
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Pros

Amazing 401K, free stock after one year of employment, health insurance is very good for part-time employees if only getting it for yourself, management always approves time off requests, hours are always available, will work around school schedules, tuition reimbursement program, will reimburse you for gas for work-related expenses as needed and will put you in a hotel as needed for work-related reasons that are more than 50 miles from your home.

Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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