Not a Great Place to Work - Produce Clerk Publix Employee Review

1.0
28 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-The Stock given to employees as they earn money

Cons

-Not a living wage. Even 20/hr is not enough to live and pay rent in Dawson County, Georgia. Everyone working for this company is subsidized in some way if they are not in management. -Management is largely checked out, burnt out, or chronically stressed. In Georgia it seems they are more concerned with corporate policy than cultivating a happy, healthy workforce. Mr. George is certainly rolling in his grave. -They promote kids with no accountability into management and offer no training or professional development, so workflow processes are broken and posturing/politicking becomes more important than the job itself. -Toxic environment, employees overworked and underpaid. Constant gossip, drama, and henpecking because of the general negative morale. -Rarely ever 2 consecutive days off in a row for full-time workers. -Why would you want to work towards management in an environment where all the managers are miserable? -The mission statement is dishonest, and if you take it to heart, you will shoot yourself in the foot. No one in the store cares about making it great. The company just wants profit, and the workers just want to go home. -Massive corporate policies make it impossible for this to truly be an employee-owned and directed company.

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5.0
15 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good work environment and clean store.

Cons

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3.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
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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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