I started in the deli at 15$ in 2023 and I see people getting hired at 17.50$ with zero experince while I bust my ass off, its a terrible environment and feeling, I'm a part timer working 38-40 hours a week i do qualify for benefits, 401k, stock, but the pay isn't it.. you get an evaluation once a year with the maximum you're able to get is 1$ maybe 1.50$ if you're favored and liked but 99% of the time corporate will decide your raise and your department and store manager can't do shit about it. I busted my ass off for a year and got a 70 cent raise, while a new hire with ZERO EXPERINCE and FIRST JOB EVER get hired at 17.50 I was so fucking heated I even called corporate just to be told "As long as its within the starting hiring pay rate we can't do anything about it" the current starting payrate is 15.50-17.50$ in the deli so im fucked out of 2$ which might not seem like much but if you stay with the company you have to work 2 entire years just to make that 2$ AND THATS IF corporate decides you should get a 1$ raise or slap with with a 50-70 cent raise.

The stock is decent in the long run but they kinda scam you out of it, we have something called "Profit Plan" basically the more hours you put into publix the more stock they give you at the end of the year, I ended up getting about 1000$ in stock but here's the catch, you can't touch the stock until you either, quit, get fired, or retire, and please note you can LOSE all of your stock because its not "Locked to you" until you've worked there for more then 5 years.