This was my very first employer. They helped me develop a professional work ethic and provided many new opportunities. - Stock Clerk Publix Employee Review

4.0
Feb 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

This company offers competitive pay & benefits, flexible hours, ample opportunity for promotion, vested stock options, and access to an employee credit union. The workforce is diverse including personnel from all age groups and ethnic backgrounds. It also brings together professionals from many different backgrounds in order to provide their customers the best customer service and grocery products available at affordable prices.

Cons

Managerial promotions typically require relocating to a different town since bylaws discourage workers from managing any store in which they trained. Each store usually has a number of managers working at any given time. Lower level employees can find themselves caught between the opinions of two or more competing views or management styles which can be challenging, especially when worker evaluations are pending.

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Pros

You can buy stock after one year

Cons

Having to deal with rude customers

3.0
May 29, 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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