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‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot

Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:29 am
Posted by Byrdybyrd05
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:29 am
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Wendy Mize’s family grew up on Publix, disciples to the giant supermarket chain’s empirical marketing slogan: “Where shopping is a pleasure”. As infants, her three daughters wore diapers bought from the Publix baby club. As children, they munched on free cookies from the bakery. There were even perks for the family’s pets, who are proud members of Publix Paws.

But now the decades-long love affair is over. After a member of Publix’s founding family donated $300,000 to the Donald Trump rally that preceded January’s deadly Capitol riots, Mize is pulling out of what she says has become “an abusive, dysfunctional relationship”, and joining others in a boycott of the Florida-based grocery chain that operates more than 1,200 stores across seven south-eastern states.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:30 am to


This is absolutely newsworthy.
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:30 am to
Rouses is canceled as well
This post was edited on 2/15/21 at 9:31 am
Posted by Pendulum
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:30 am to
Gl with that
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:30 am to
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Mize is pulling out of what she says has become “an abusive, dysfunctional relationship”, and joining others in a boycott of the Florida-based grocery chain that operates more than 1,200 stores across seven south-eastern states.




I can't imagine ever describing a grocery store I have shopped at in this way.
Posted by Ronaldo Burgundiaz
NWA
Member since Jan 2012
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:30 am to
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Mize is pulling out of what she says has become “an abusive, dysfunctional relationship”
Is this a Babylon Bee article?
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:30 am to
Shop at Walmart then.
Posted by lsutiger2010
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:31 am to
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This post was edited on 10/17/21 at 10:06 pm
Posted by Traveler
I'm not late-I'm early for tomorrow
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:32 am to
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Where shopping is a pleasure

If only more of her kind would leave, this could actually be a reality for the rest of us.
Posted by tigerpimpbot
Chairman of the Pool Board
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:32 am to
Well, bye
Posted by cable
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:32 am to
Bye
Posted by soccerfüt
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Member since May 2013
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:33 am to
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Wendy Mize’s family grew up on Publix, disciples to the giant supermarket chain’s empirical marketing slogan: “Where shopping is a pleasure”.
Misspelled “Karen” in the lead sentence.
This post was edited on 2/15/21 at 9:36 am
Posted by St Augustine
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Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:34 am to
soys and poors probably not shopping at Publix anyway. Amazingly normal people were still shopping with no issue yesterday.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:34 am to
HONK HOOOOOOOOOONK

Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:34 am to
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Publix


Great store. I wish they were in Louisiana.
Posted by Concernednewguy7
Texas
Member since Dec 2020
1073 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:35 am to
Well Publix and rouses are much better off now. Who wants to do business with parasites?
Posted by Gray Tiger
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:35 am to
Annnd their sales will go up like every other time a liberal boycott was called.
Posted by bad93ex
Member since Sep 2018
27360 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:35 am to
A thinly-veiled hit piece against a grocery store that supported a president who was pro-business, journalism is dead.
Posted by Ping Pong
LSU and UVA alum
Member since Aug 2014
5358 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:36 am to
Have liberal protests of businesses ever worked?

If anything this will just reduce the number of vegan products and micro condoms in their stores
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
15724 posts
Posted on 2/15/21 at 9:36 am to
Ya'll go ahead and crowd up Target and Walmart. Won't bug me a bit
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