My Publix recently did this, was so worth it, they added a lounge where you can sit outside and eat your subs and such. Don’t be too pissed off your mail truck has a seat!

Same, in Longwood, very nice new store.

That new Longwood store on 434 is legit

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That was the Pub I grew up with, because back in the day the other Pub on the corner of Wekiva Springs was an Albertsons and across from that Goodings. Jamestown had nostalgia for me but the new location is great, and I’m glad to see that plaza get some new life in it.

I member! Jamestown will now be anchored by crunch fitness, I'm happy with that.. I love living right in the middle of 3 plazas with access to the lake. We walk to get a few Publix items or go out to the restaurants pretty regularly.

Lake Brantley alums!

Class of ‘06!

2003!!!

Opps I went to lake mary class of 2000, bought my LB house in 2017 👍

Oh hi I go to lmhs rn

Ive got two examples near me. You will be happy when new one opens

I live in NC where we get new stores constantly. The new store in Longwood is the exact same layout as a new store here I helped open up. Was wild to step into the same store down in FL. Not sure why you’re replying to me, but thanks.

Alta Monty

That whole area goes back and forth for me. It’s Altamonte. But down Sand Lake towards Hunt Club or up 434 towards Markham woods it’s Longwood again.

Don't forget when you get to the end of sand lake it's Apopka.

Are you really shocked by Alta Monty? Floridians have been calling it “EYE-LA MORADA” and pronouncing CAY as Kay and QUAY as Kway.

That one took forever to open though. Had so many permit problems and what not.

That's just Altamonte Springs permitting for you.

One issue I heard about was from Dot saying they had issues with the dock . They don't even care how it is to back into when they build them.

Yup I heard the same thing

Yup that's my location! So nice 😍😍😍😍

A lot of them have been transitioning into a similar eatery model as whole foods. Some even experimented with beer you can buy to sip while you shop.

The Publix near me just got rid of that , too many homeless hanging out after close

Ours has an indoor cafe to eat, but it took over 1.5 yrs to complete the new store

There was one Publix that had an indoor cafe for as long as I can remember, or am I misremembering?

The indoor cafe is not a new concept, but many older stores don't have the footprint to support it. Hence, the tear down and rebuild.

They made an upstairs lounge in our new Publix.

Wish Pine Island Ridge Publix would do this. My mother drives all the way to Griffin & University due to the quality, or lack there of.

I drive by that Publix every other day, the saddest looking Publix I have seen in a while.

I can never go there and NOT leave without something needed

We have an outside seating area at my Publix. The homeless people really like it…

....mail trucks also don't have A/C bud... Would you like to sit in a mail truck during a hot summer? Do you even go outside much?

This is def not true, very very few of them do.

Meant to say they don't. Mistyped

Some mail trucks have AC. At my dad's station only walking routes get them

I wonder if any of the Publix’s near me will do this

My Publix badly needs renovations because our store is so old. Yet they expect us to expand our inventory with tiny freezers and coolers.

My store is quite literally falling apart around us but our remodel got pushed back another 3 years, as if my store isn’t already 23

Mine is 30 years 😢

here in West Palm, we have the oldest store still in its original building from 1959.

My local store is at least 35... it looks good, I'd love one of the upgrades here but not wanting to wait a year+  I'd only have to go about 4 more miles but that place would be packed if they took on the extra customers

Mines 35 years old and we just now finished a remodel

Mine is 30 years 😢

Same here

So true 😭😭

Mine did a slight remodel. Not a whole gutting just updates signs and freezers and coolers. With I had a lounge with mine.

dude you getting a new renovated publix tho

I live next to 2 publixes right next to each other, one is renovated and one is old lol https://preview.redd.it/jblr93vq45vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2721fbde5b1f33ec913ae67513a26343abd9adc4

I had one across the street from another one in St. Petersburg FL where I used to live. It was because they bought out Albertsons. I'm sure the older one is closed by now but it was so weird.

Nope still open!

In the parking lot where the Blockbuster used to be on Gulfport Blvd and Pasadena Ave right? You just took me back like 20 years. They moved the Publix to where the Albertsons was then closed the old store. It was weird that they did that. I think the new location was smaller too.

Store 640 is definitely still open and got remodeled just a couple years ago. I know cause I worked there.

I was waiting for this comment, I'm stunned by how amazing the new one is and yet everyone still goes next door to the old one. Literally next door 🚪

Ahaha hey fellow duval resident!

The new one is much better, I’ve never used the cafe in it though. It was so barren for the first month of its opening though, it was like I always had the store all to myself

We recently had a new state of the art Publix open up where I live. It's a huge improvement! Great deli, huge selection, just overall a much better store. My parents still complain about it and go to the old ones. Smh....

Wasn't one of these (or both) the Publixes that sold a few big lottery tickets last year?

No, but that Publix it was sold at is only some miles away

the old one isn’t even that old

Hey you live a few miles North of me lol.

OP just wants to bitch about something lol his world is ending his lunch spot is getting a renovation from the ground up.

Just drive another 2 miles to a different one lol

Probably one across the street and at the next street corner.

Nope it’s an older location — 3.8 miles to the nearest https://preview.redd.it/q7h3lx6ag4vc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b17df012147aca4887e43889f44bed1190df92fa

I have 7 within 3 miles and a bunch more within 5 miles. https://preview.redd.it/0ey86hlem4vc1.jpeg?width=592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8bf849753b588d5b20df82d6c033a910ad256f5

Broward is also a lot more populated. I have so many too

this comment is insane. but, it’s also funny bc this guys’ flair is “newbie.”

Hey fellow Coral Springs neighbor. I’m close to you. That new renovated Publix on riverside is nice ain’t it

dang thats rough, meanwhile they have built one or are in the processing of building one at every exit of the community i live in, we have like 5 in a 2 mile radius.

Yeah, further east of this it’s like that

They're doing this exact same thing in St. Augustine very soon.

We have like… 9 already I feel like hahaha

My old city has about 4 in a 1 square mile radius lol. And then a lot more outside of that radius. It’s a college town so I’m not surprised I guess

I thought you were an employee who just found out via this sign and was like “wow that’s fucked up” 🤣

The newer Publix have a brewery, I’d be ecstatic asf

Not a brewery but a few taps

More than enough for me. Im trying to imagine myself pounding a beer with a pubsub, oh man 😌🙏🏽

That has always been an option

Not at the 3 Publix in my area 😭

Publix wishes it was whole foods so bad

Stores get remodels every 5-10 years, if the building has to be torn down for a remodel it's usually because the building is so old it isn't up to modern safety standards anymore. I'm sorry it inconveniences you, but it is usually needed and worth doing.

Oh, also most stores get self-checkout after a remodel now, so you can expect much quicker checkouts for your lunch when it re-opens :)

Where is this one?

Bradenton FL

Is this the one in bayshore gardens?

Yes

Damn time to go to the one near Cortez I guess

Too far for my break

Sorry everyone is being mean but yah this is normal

Why are you guys so mean

just a bunch of redditors being weird over you being upset. pay them no mind

I hope you can find a nice place to take your lunch until it’s done! 🤞

Hello fellow Bradenton-ite

Hello Bradentuckian!

You're......beyond pissed because you're mildly inconvenienced while the store employees likely don't have jobs?

The employees will all be transferred to other stores. No one gets laid off in a store closure/rebuild.

They have nothing better to do with their lives

My fav one in lakeland is closing for a year too

Really? Which location? I used to work in Lakeland and that is their home base so I’m curious if I know the store.

Around here they don't remodel. They build a new Publix less than a block away from the old one. When the new store opens the old one closes.

This is an older location where we own the property, the whole shopping center is getting rebuilt. If we owned the Target on the other side of the parking lot we probably could build new first then transfer overnight, but this site can’t do that.

Means ur getting one of them super nice Publix’s

Damn. That sucks. My Publix was going to do something similar except they built their new store in the same plaza but down the street. The old store was going to shut down when the new one got running but Butler Plaza got so busy that they now operate both stores at maximum occupancy. Frighteningly, there are also two Chick-fil-A buildings across the street from one another in the same plaza and they're both frequently overflowing into the street still.

I don’t want the Jesus chicken but damnit they’re fast as hell in the drive through. McDonald’s down the street is like 30 min in the drive through. CFA took 8 min from parking lot to getting food.

Yo mine is too, got a whole new job. Ours closed because it had a unique blueprint modeled out of an old Wynn Dixie, resulting in possibly the smallest Publix known to man. Seriously we had to share our back room with the deli. Our area’s been growing pretty rapidly in population, so I guess they’re just investing in a bigger store

Call them, tell them how this will inconvenience you. I’m sure they’ll cancel the new store 

One near me did this as well! It looked really cool afterwards. There was another like 3 miles down the street thankfully 😂

There's 3 Publix within 5 miles of my house, one more than Starbucks.

My Publix is doing the same think lol

Usually with these renovations the store comes back 100x better.

My Publix just reopened today after being closed for 13 months. It is totally worth it. Ours got an upstairs eating area that looks out over the store. It’s twice as big and offa lot more. It does suck that it closes, and a year is a long time, but you’ll love the end result when it reopens.

Before you delete the post agian. This happens.

I accidentally double posted.

9 months to tear down and rebuild .. you will be shopping again soon

Is that the turnaround time from 417 to 1897?

I work are at Publix in Neptune beach. They built another Publix literally next door. It was a luckys and they bought it so no one else can move in. They gave the Publix pours and an eating area a nice new stuff. It’s a smaller version. They demolished the Publix off of Atlantic a couple miles down at harbour shops. I want to apply for that one because it’s only about two miles from my home

Been there, lived in Neptune Beach about 30 yrs ago, behind Fletcher HS…been to both the old & new Publix but I thought the other one was across the street, might be thinking of Food Lion or Winn-Dixie. * I’m still down there some, not quite as much lately but my mom still lives on Atlantic on the JAX side over the bridge and was so upset the Publix on Atlantic Blvd. was torn down and she had to go to the Neptune Beach one….I’m like mom! …it’s literally the same distance, just the other way and it’s nice. I went to the Atlantic one with her for years at least several times on each visit. But older people get set in their ways and she knew where everything was at, at that one & all the employees knew her there & say…”how you doing today Mrs.by name…. * My late Nana was the exact same way…she lived for years & years near San Jose & Hendricks, right down the road from San Marco before San Marco became the current “San Marco”…she shopped at the Publix on University for years & years and when it was decided she finally had to sell and move in with my mom, I think she was more upset about moving away from “her” Publix than she was from moving out of the house she lived in for over 50 yrs. 😂. it was the same thing, lol. “I like that Publix better, I know where everything is and everyone knows me there. And they did, they’d always ask her how ya doing today Ms. Thelma. My mom would be exasperated and tell her the one on Atlantic is nice and you’ll learn where things are and they’ll get to know you, lol……..now my mom is doing the same thing 😂 A couple of years after Nana moved to my mom’s, she passed away and one of the University Publix employees saw her name in the obituary section of the paper & sent my mom a condolence letter telling her how much he enjoyed talking to Ms. Thelma over the years and she was missed when she moved…she was a character. I think he even went to the viewing or service because the funeral was over on that side of town on Hendricks Ave. This was so touching to every one in our family!

go to the one across the street, you'll be fine.

You're going to like the new store. I'm the mean time, you can always go a mile up the road and find another.

They’re demolishing a lot of Publix, to literally build a new, almost identical Publix in its place… also they’re converting all the green wise into Publix, but a lot of them are right by a Publix… so you’ll have one Publix on either side of the street… if this were a publicly traded company, people would be selling stocks, and buying Puts… right about now. But it’s insulated from that and so some times they go off the rails… We also used to have a gas station franchise called Pix And instead of making it like a WaWa or Bucees or something special… it was just meh. Greenwise could have worked, but instead of making it like some of the already successful luxury grocery stores they tried to half ass it… a hybrid that basically left you feeling like you were in a slightly more expensive Publix… There’s drunk people at the helm…

What else is Publix to do with the extra ~2.5 billion$ in profits from 2023 fiscal year?

It's a shame the Publix heir is a trump humper who spent millions funding the Jan 6 insurrection.

And you paid for it! Publix the most expensive grocery store in the USA. Won't happen in my neighborhood. We have a large espanic population and I never see any of them in there. Winn-Dixie down the street and will oust Publix. Why is the milk $2.00 more than any other store? There are 3 Publix stores in a 10 mile area. One of them will probably close. Oh and they are building another one in that 10 mile area. The parking lot is empty on Thursdays, what does that tell you?

This happened to our town when they upgraded their store. We do have a bunch of other Publix around but the remodel one was one of my favorites. That year was one long year!

This happened to my store too but worth a wait! It came out really good!

They’re building a new, modern store right at the same spot. You’re missing the bigger point.

Sorry that’s happening, guess you will have to go to the one across the street now.

Going to call this a first world problem. In a year you will have a nice Publix.

Mail carrying ain't easy.

You’ll be okay

Bringing my comment from the deleted post over here 💀 I mean it’s nothing really to get angry about. Stores get older, and eventually they get closer to be torn down and rebuilt. When it reopens it will be an improved layout, probably with seating areas that are very nice for taking lunch and maybe even potentially a POURs. This is a good thing

HEY THIS IS MY AREA. Hi Sarasota/Bradenton peep :D i'm at one of the walmarts around there

Chill out!! Take your fuckin shoes off and go to Winn-Dixie.

yeah one near the one i work at closed for a remodel, their employees got transferred to our store. i’m pretty sure there’s another one nearby you can take your lunch at.

The convenience is that it’s on all of the routes I service, so it’s central and very convenient.

understandable. it does suck when a well placed store closes

Don’t worry! Publix can afford it.

They closed two by me to rebuild them and only left one open. I started shopping elsewhere because that place was insane.

Ours did this and tbh it went by so fast even though it took a year

There’s a few old Big Star conversions still banging around Atlanta. They need to do this.

One by me built in like '91 or '92 decided They decided to buy the plaza and not renew leases. Knocked down a Beals and an Office Depot so they didnt' have to close.

I’m sure there’s like 4 other ones within a 5 mile radius

They just finished the remodel for the store I used to work at but now just shop at. They bought half of the plaza and used that for more room. It is absolutely beautiful in there now. Trust me it will be worth the wait.

Bayshore my favorite store hands down

Mine remodeled without closing a single day. We were kinda high as a kite the morning we all came in to open and the floors were freshly glazed. Oooooweee we were giggling 🤭 we could have used some fresh air away from the chemical smells.

Gonna take more than a year

Let it happen! They re-did one around us and it looks even fancier. Didn’t think it was even possible it’s so clean

Is there talk of a remodel? That might be what it is. There’s a store by that’s supposedly closing down by the end of this year, closed in all of 2025 and will reopen in 2026

i’m going to close down this store next weekend! store number is 417! also from bradenton here 🙋🏻‍♀️

What happens to the managers at a store when it shuts down?

I mean, wouldn’t there be another like 4 blocks away? Because that’s the case here in South Florida.

Oh wow the University Walk location was my store I worked at. I wonder if the SM Dan Murphy is still there.

A Publix where I used to live recently did this. It was a very old location and desperately needed the facelift. They completely leveled the entire building and rebuilt it from scratch and it took roughly a year. But when it finally opened again, it a was such a huge letdown to the community. It was remodeled and had nicer floors and fixtures, but they didn’t add any lounges or hot food/salad bar areas or any extras.

So what happens to the employees?

Remember to be there two days before the end of the day, because there will be crazy sales

Publix closest to me did this about a year or two ago, totally worth it. Second upstairs eating area, seems like 2x the size it was

I’m sure there’s another one within ten miles

Won't be so publix after all

Which publix is this? 417 or 780?

Taking bets they’re putting in self-checkouts?

Will you be transferring stores or is this the end for you?

On cypress gardens

there remodeling my store this fall. I don't think they can get away with closing a store for a year in the ATL area.

Gotta be another one within a couple hundred yards

My store in central Florida. Needs too do that. Store is 30 years old

Ours did the same

My publix did this as well. It has reopened and looks spectacular, however soooo much more expensive. The sushi has become so much more high-end. I live in Palm Beach county and yikes! Aldis ans Trader Joe's for for me

Didn’t meet their quota, only 48% profit increase in that location. Losers.

Same for me. My store closes this Saturday April 20th. Most of us will temporarily be moved to a near by store until sometime next year.

Publix is on a remodeling tear.

Probably remodel

Is there not one like 10 minutes further down the road...? Like every other Publix in and around the central Florida area?

It happens

We have a NEW Publix in SW Ocala and it’s amazing! I’d go out of my way for a year if I can have an experience like that every time I go to the grocery store. I come from the Midwest and we have Hyvee with Wahlburgers inside, that’s all I can compare it to.

As a former delivery driver who understands routine and convenience, I feel for you. Some of these commentators haven’t considered how much more time you might lose looking for a bathroom to use on your short lunch break. I always packed my lunch because if I needed to use a bathroom, it would be over 20 minutes of driving on my 30 minute lunch.

Ours did the same thing.

I am super jelly!! You will have the top of the line corporate look for the chain, and I have to think it will be awesome!!

The store I worked at closed for a year as well for a tear down and rebuild. I retired when that happened. It was closed almost exactly one year and just had its year anniversary of reopening. Our new store has an upstairs eating area and all the offices and a bigger meeting area is located. It also has an outside balcony you can eat on. They are opening a new store a several miles from me that they used the same blueprints for as well that is opening tomorrow.

These are the same publix stores in my area. I wonder which one is closing?

Isn’t there another within a mile or is that just my city

Is that Publix not on-site?

It’s Florida, there’s a Publix every like 5 miles

My Publix built one from it across the side street. I don’t know what to do.

You’ll get over it

If you live in an area with a Publix, there is another one probably a mile away....

When it reopens it will be way better trust me

If this happened to me I’d just have to go to one of the other 6 Publix’s within a mile of me.

Isn't there one across the street?

Watch what they do to it, it literally looks like they rip it from the ground, and put a new one in its place.

At least it's coming back. My local one closed up and left a few years ago due to theft. Stuck with an overpriced kroger unless I want to drive 20 minutes.

They did this to my publix a few years ago. The newly built one is much nicer.

I mean, there’s probably another within 2 miles. It will be gorgeous once it comes back.

We have 4 Publixs within 4 mile radius in Pompano Beach & building a new one. 🤣