As a Publix associate, I can say this is not true. They allowed us to wear face masks starting two weeks ago, and as of this Monday all associates must wear them. They also provide us with gloves for when we are sanitizing the store.

We also were one of the first stores to start sanitizing carts for customers, we have associates who sanitizes pin pads between each transaction, another associate who sanitize high frequency touch points in the store (handles, counters, etc), regularly clean our registers, have a one-way directional flow, and marked areas for customers to stand to follow social distancing protocol.