FYI and in keeping with the boycott on Coca-Cola products, I purchased a "Publix" brand diet cola

[SheilaAnn]

that I do enjoy once in a while. Could not tell the difference in the taste, it was what I expected and was very refreshing. Just so you know, there are other products out there that are just as good if not better than Coke.

[Haggard Celine]

1. I think people are boycotting Publix too.

One of the owners was in the mob on Jan. 6, I think.

[SheilaAnn]

3. Could be but I have no choice but to shop Publix. n/t

[Haggard Celine]

4. I understand. I have to shop at Wal-Mart.

It's there or Rose's, and one of those guys was in D.C. on the sixth of Jan. What is it with grocery chain operators?

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. Publix s wholly owned by present and past employees and members of the Jenkins family

People are boycotting Publix after heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli was unmasked as a top donor to the January 6 Trump rally.
Fancelli is not a Publix employee but is set to inherit from the $8.8 billion founding family's fortune.
Fancelli contributed most of the roughly $500,000 total raised for the "Stop the Steal" rally, the WSJ reported.


Not worthy of boycott in my humble opinion.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. More Tangential

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A woman who is heir to the Publix fortune financed some of the criminals to go to D.C.
The company itself is mostly owned by employee stockholders, and they publicly repudiated her involvement.
Boycotting the store is not useful, as the vast bulk of her fortune is not connected to the store. The ESOP shares came from somewhere. Mostly as purchases from the family's shares.
Boycotting them doesn't affect her, the chain disapproved of her actions, and the employees are major owners.
It's not a high value boycott because it will hurt those not involved in the sedition.

[Haggard Celine]

12. I agree.

It's pointless to boycott them. It won't make a bit of difference about anything. I don't know how much good a Coca-Cola boycott would do, either, frankly. Coke hasn't actually done anything, it's the state government where they happen to be headquartered. Maybe they'll have some influence over the government there. Maybe. I think the other boycotts, like the MLB boycott and some other boycotts, like filmmaker boycotts will be more effective. Not enough people will boycott Coke to affect their massive bottom line, I think.

[TwilightZone]

15. It's a silly, ill-considered boycott.

It is, unfortunately, indicative of our frustrating tendency to knee-jerk react to any and all developments without considering context, a tendency that seems to have grown off the charts of late.

In addition to the points you made, with which I fully agree, Publix has been on many "best places to work" lists for many, many years.

[samnsara]

2. wasnt publix in the eye of boycotts as well?

..i dont have Publix here but I remember reading something about them donating to something.

[Haggard Celine]

6. I just looked it up.

An heiress to the Publix chain donated money to pay for Trump's rally before they went down to the Capitol. I don't know for sure if she was there.

[HAB911]

5. Publix heiress paid for Trump rally

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/01/30/publix-heiress-paid-for-trump-rally-preceding-capitol-riots-wsj-reports/

Publix heiress Julia Jenkins Fancelli provided the “lion’s share” of funding for the Washington Ellipse rally preceding the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

It’s only the latest in a series of major contributions to conservative causes made by Publix heirs or the popular supermarket chain itself.

Fancelli, a part-time Lakeland resident, reached out to far-right talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones about helping fund a Jan. 6 event and ultimately contributed $300,000 to the rally through a former fundraising representative for the Trump 2020 campaign. The money helped pay for the majority of the $500,000 rally where former president Donald Trump spoke and incited attendees to march to the Capitol, preceding the riots, the Journal found. Fancelli did not respond to the newspaper’s multiple requests for comment.

[uponit7771]

7. Welp, they're gone ... Pepsi Zero?

[HAB911]

11. I don't know

it is becoming difficult to withhold our buying power from all the bad guys. they are all bad to some degree, so it becomes a process of prioritization.

One problems with Publix, they have saturated the market here. There are 16 stores within 10 miles of me, and only one winn dixie in that range

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. And so

the horror that is unchecked capitalism continues. The fact that they are seen as 'all bad' and yet they are still millionaires+ and able to keep on doing what they are doing tells me all I need to know about ideas like 'reform' or 'regulation'. Namely that, as long as money rules the government, there will not be any real reforms (with consequential teeth... otherwise why even bother?).

Millionaires in America - 5%

Millionaires in Congress - 56%

Until this is addressed, we are just changing the drapes in the hopes that others will think it is a new house.

[taxi]

10. It doesn't matter if everyone agrees

Actually, has everyone ever agreed on how to do something? Good for you for doing what you feel needs to be done, instead of doing nothing. I approve.

[SheilaAnn]

13. Thank you..n/t

[soothsayer]

16. Publix is innocent. Not their fault the now-unrelated heiress is a jerk

Employee owned, deserve our business.

[BannonsLiver]

17. No there aren't.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. Even better: If you're boycotting a product, send the money to people on the ground in Georgia

fighting these laws, instead of just buying another product, and then tell the maker of the product you didn't buy what you did.

[hlthe2b]

19. Good heavens. No offense but that's like boycotting Coke while buying Dasani bottled water...

Publix may be a good supermarket in the South, but they are very much part of the problem politically.

And yes, I'm aware they defended themself against their anti-union stances by pointing to the percentage owned by employees AND their heiress' significant donation to far RW causes--including the insurrection-- by separating her $$ from theirs and detailing her lack of day-to-day involvement in management. I've heard that before, but if it is good enough for you then... I know it is a well-managed, well-stocked, good selection grocery store in the South and that suffices for many.