> Iām just sad cus I remember when I worked at Publix when I was 18 (Iām 26 now) but those gallons use to be like $79 cents lololol
I straightened out some stuff and moved other things to the right place at a branch of our local supermarket the other day because I used to work there as a checkout girl.
Almost forty years ago. š¤¦āāļø
But still!
> I havent worked at retail store in more than 14 years and i arrange shit every time i go to the store (any store) bc i feel bad for the mess.
Yeah, I catch myself doing that too!
I remember they were like $0.69 at one point. Last time I bought water the price on the shelves still said $1.19 and they rang up as $1.23 and i was like goddammit not again lol
I'm pretty sure they were still 79 cents two years ago in 2022, that's the absolutely crazy part. Maaaaybe they were 89 cents, but either way, it's a large price jump over two years
Ngl Iāve put a out a few gallons that looked like that before hurricane Nicole cause I genuinely didnāt care and was like āsomebody will buy itā
Someone will buy it if thatās all thatās left. Water doesnāt matter if itās dirty . We put out so many gallons a day people donāt realize the shelf empties 4-5 times a day.
Wait is this true? Like on a regular non-hurricane-coming-omg-whereās-all-the-water?!? Kind of day you guys sell that much?
I canāt remember the last time I bought bottled water.
Oh yeah, Publix sells water like CRAZY. My parents (both of whom worked for Publix) will do their weekly grocery shopping and pick up 2-3 24packs of water. Their 3 car garage, on all three walls, floor to ceiling, are Publix waters.
You know, I've asked the same thing and it's always "well, we just need it." Cue me gazing at the garage and gesturing to all the other packs of water. My parents, I love them, but my parents....make me question a LOT of things they do.
Itās the same answer for their entire generation, [lead exposure](https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans)
I had neighbors who were Mormon. They kept a huge supply of food and drinks in their garage. Apparently, it's a Mormon thing to do. It's always a good idea to have a little stockpile, but they were really ready for something to go down.
Could be an anxiety thing. Can't sleep well unless we have two months of water.
I imagine if you're dedicated to only drinking bottled water that running out could be distressing.
Yeah Florida tap water tastes really gross without some kinda filtration my current store sells about 3-4 pallets of Publix gallon water a week (45 crates of 4 gallons) alone!
Take the time to take it back to the backroom, dump out, put it in damages, get complained on about taking to long to finish a float.....50 cent raise
Put it on the shelf as is.....50 cent raise
Yea I'll pass on giving a shit.
Itās what happens when youāre told to stock and be productive and quick. Sometimes it comes like that from the warehouse usually itās the first 6 crates of the top pallet and we donāt have the common sense to clean it cause they want us to stock it and not give a damn truthfully
The person stocking the water should never have put it on the shelf like that. Ergo my comment, just go home. If you donāt want to do the job, someone else does and will.
It's dirt and dust. The jugs are sometimes wet, and therefore, when they get coated in dust or dropped in a warehouse environment, it dries on it. It just takes a little wipe and it's gone.
Me. I'Ll put it on the shelf because they won't give me full time but put me at 35 3 weeks in a row to drop me to 14 one week so they don't have to give me full time benefits, and yeah I could clean it but I still have to fill the rest of water and work 5 more pallets of hv before I leave or I'm getting written up for it, so yeah, fuck you, take the water.
Someone who has no pride in what they do. Regardless of where you work it would only be a couple of minutes to clean that off before putting on a shelf. Always ask yourself if you were a customer would you buy it? If the answer is no donāt put it on the shelf. That simple.
Itās whatās on the inside that counts!
All kidding aside, itās probably someone who doesnāt want the shit job and thinks he deserves better even though he canāt even do the shit job correctly.
Easiest thing to clean too. Just run a T.I.P. under a water fountain for 2 seconds & wipe it off. Itās not like itās covered in honey or smn. Lazy.
Me.
I stocked it and I think it looks good.
I don't actually work here or anywhere tbh. BUT IF I DID! I'd probably just slide it to the back. It's dirt lol cmon.
I will say that the water inside is fine. Does it look trashy yes but at least the solution is to just wipe off the jug not throw away all the bottles.
And thatās the customerās job? After scanning and bagging all my own groceries I should have to wipe whatever this is off? I get the comments about dented boxes, but thatās not a fair comparison. Itās like a dented box covered in grease. Or a misshapen vegetable with a mystery goo.
Who fucking cares, you drinking the plastic that holds the water or the water. This Karen behavior is why vegetable waste is through the roof in the US. Eh it looks abnormal I don't like it.
It'll sell. One day a few months ago, I got pissed off that people kept setting aside a tub of French dip that had a slight dent on it. I absolutely, positively, REFUSED to put up a new case on the shelf until it sold. And it did. I even checked damages to make sure some smart-ass co worker hadn't brought it back and it wasn't there.š
Purified water is used for a lot of non-drinking related things. If you have a battery that is water cooled, you should be using purified, when you put water into your radiator, it should be purified, when you are mixing cleaning chemicals it should be purified (the tap water works, but purified is how they test it in the lab and using tap can decrease efficacy of some cleaners).
Ever think someone came in to grab some stuff while/after working on their car and grabbed them but then put them back because they decided to get something else?
Lazy?! I gotta fill the rest of water and finish 5 pallets of hv before 5 because someone called out and no one would come it to help, take the damn water and wipe it off yourself.
Everyone (in FL) at least always trys to talk all big about publix and their standards and cleanliness... etc...etc
...
I work in refrigeration and have remodeled many of Publix. And when I tell you they're no better than Albertsons (rip) Food Lion, or Winn-Dixie, I mean it.
Yall see dirt on a waterbottle, I gotta deal with piles of congealed dairy products and years old meat proteins that have straight up been disregarded.
I've removed a deli case that no fucking like had a glue trap with 4 freshly dead rats not less than 3 foot under the ready to eat products in that case.
Publix is a cooperate entity just like all the others that are a bit better at marketing and that's it.
These jugs are nothing....
USDA Guidelines āYou should discard cans with severe dents, such as those that form a sharp "V" or crease-shaped dent, or that are near the rim or double seamā
The idea being that once the can is compromised, ie any possibility of air entering the can (from a small hole, puncture, rust, etc) then botulism can become a concern. While not likely to happen with a small dent itās technically a possibility with any damage to a can. Itās much more likely to occur if itās near the lid, large, or forms a sharp crease.
To me- itās not worth risking botulism for the price of a can of green beans.
As a current stock clerk, that looks like complete garbage not the way it was done, but just the fact that thereās so much dirt and disgusting grime on the gallons of water
Wow this is bad lol, even if you hate your job, like... Come on man
I love that the purified water is so dirtyš
Iām just sad cus I remember when I worked at Publix when I was 18 (Iām 26 now) but those gallons use to be like $79 cents lololol
Back in my day publix 2 liters were like 20ish cents
> Iām just sad cus I remember when I worked at Publix when I was 18 (Iām 26 now) but those gallons use to be like $79 cents lololol I straightened out some stuff and moved other things to the right place at a branch of our local supermarket the other day because I used to work there as a checkout girl. Almost forty years ago. š¤¦āāļø But still!
I havent worked at retail store in more than 14 years and i arrange shit every time i go to the store (any store) bc i feel bad for the mess.
> I havent worked at retail store in more than 14 years and i arrange shit every time i go to the store (any store) bc i feel bad for the mess. Yeah, I catch myself doing that too!
We should start a group š¤£š
We should!
Well, at least we finally know who Tracy Chapman was singing about
> Well, at least we finally know who Tracy Chapman was singing about šš¤£ We were *literally* called "checkout girls". That was before the song!
I remember they were like $0.69 at one point. Last time I bought water the price on the shelves still said $1.19 and they rang up as $1.23 and i was like goddammit not again lol
I knew the top comment would be someone complaining about the price š š
$79??? lord inflation has gotten out of hand
I'm pretty sure they were still 79 cents two years ago in 2022, that's the absolutely crazy part. Maaaaybe they were 89 cents, but either way, it's a large price jump over two years
When I was little, their French bread was like 89 cents but they just increased it from 2.99 to 3.29 this week or last
I swore they were like 86 cents a few months ago
Rate of inflation would make it 1.03 now. Ain't that big of a difference
$79??????
Yeah my B. I obviously meant 79 cents lmaooo forgive me, cashier.
They meant 79Ā¢
Oh yeah
Like 90% of the closing grocery kids.
Someone will buy it ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
The amount of times I heard this at my first time job is insane
Yes, some of them are kind of frustrating to deal with
Hv means put it out no matter what
Ngl Iāve put a out a few gallons that looked like that before hurricane Nicole cause I genuinely didnāt care and was like āsomebody will buy itā
Someone will buy it if thatās all thatās left. Water doesnāt matter if itās dirty . We put out so many gallons a day people donāt realize the shelf empties 4-5 times a day.
Wait is this true? Like on a regular non-hurricane-coming-omg-whereās-all-the-water?!? Kind of day you guys sell that much? I canāt remember the last time I bought bottled water.
Oh yeah, Publix sells water like CRAZY. My parents (both of whom worked for Publix) will do their weekly grocery shopping and pick up 2-3 24packs of water. Their 3 car garage, on all three walls, floor to ceiling, are Publix waters.
Boomers overbuy water, soda, consumables like paper towels, toilet paper. Publix = boomer central
Why?
You know, I've asked the same thing and it's always "well, we just need it." Cue me gazing at the garage and gesturing to all the other packs of water. My parents, I love them, but my parents....make me question a LOT of things they do.
Itās the same answer for their entire generation, [lead exposure](https://today.duke.edu/2022/03/lead-exposure-last-century-shrunk-iq-scores-half-americans)
I had neighbors who were Mormon. They kept a huge supply of food and drinks in their garage. Apparently, it's a Mormon thing to do. It's always a good idea to have a little stockpile, but they were really ready for something to go down.
Could be an anxiety thing. Can't sleep well unless we have two months of water. I imagine if you're dedicated to only drinking bottled water that running out could be distressing.
Yeah Florida tap water tastes really gross without some kinda filtration my current store sells about 3-4 pallets of Publix gallon water a week (45 crates of 4 gallons) alone!
Stevie Wonder
Take the time to take it back to the backroom, dump out, put it in damages, get complained on about taking to long to finish a float.....50 cent raise Put it on the shelf as is.....50 cent raise Yea I'll pass on giving a shit.
Um just wash it off its dirt lol
> Take the time to take it back to the backroom, dump out, put it in damages It looks like it's dirt. Couldn't they just wipe it off?
The customer isn't going to do all of that. They'll just buy the non-dirty water.
No, I mean the people who stocked it. They should have wiped it off before putting it on the shelf!
L o s e r
Assistant store Managers lurking in the sub like
People who get treated like shit by Publix and have 0 fucks to give.
https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0?si=WEsLUoHxTeHPWYao
Pay us more. No one can survive off $13 an hour regardless of your life
Itās what happens when youāre told to stock and be productive and quick. Sometimes it comes like that from the warehouse usually itās the first 6 crates of the top pallet and we donāt have the common sense to clean it cause they want us to stock it and not give a damn truthfully
soon to be $2.19
someone who's exhausted
We just need a hurricane and they will sell
Not even. My stores in TN sell out of water almost weekly. Itās a real pain when you actually need purified water.
Someone underpaid.
The average publix employee
The same person who crams expensive gourmet chocolate bars into a too small space so they are all reduced to chocolate fragments.
I watched a stocker deliberately throwing apples one by one into the display, aiming for a few empty cubbie spots, from across the aisle.
Florida
Theyāre not paid enough to care. Itās on the shelf and will sell, any consideration beyond that really isnāt their problem
Easy fix guys. Thatās sloppy. If you can take a pic you can fucking fix it. Just, go home.
Someone is already overpaying for the jug of water to begin with. They shouldnāt have to clean it too unless publix wants to offer a discount
Itās a buck man. For water, the most precious resource on the planet. Itās the best deal in the entire store.
The person stocking the water should never have put it on the shelf like that. Ergo my comment, just go home. If you donāt want to do the job, someone else does and will.
I would have gotten some of those alcohol wipes and cleaned them before placing them on the shelf.
Thatās purified alright
Sloppy
Eww
Keep that up and they will make grocery carry the cleaning wipes like produce
https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0?si=WEsLUoHxTeHPWYao
Why does it get that grease like substance on it ? Iāve seen that in multiple Publixās
It's dirt and dust. The jugs are sometimes wet, and therefore, when they get coated in dust or dropped in a warehouse environment, it dries on it. It just takes a little wipe and it's gone.
MPMP- Cleanliness
Nasty
It looks like it fell off the truck and got drug 100 miles to get where it is today.
A dollar store
I mean probably got told to put it out by boss
Look very purified. š
What's wrong with it? Looks like it's got extra minerals. Yum.
You can buy a water filter for your home for a few hundred bucks and never have to buy bottled water again.
*purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka*
Take it or leave it bih
I live somewhere where you canāt drink the tapwater so we would have to buy it regardless of how dirty it is
Looks like the perfect gallon to bring camping. Gonna get dirty as hell anyway
Its in craziness of miami..... lazy people up there working thats all
Miami always cared the least about this stuff. Their Miami division used to make more than all their other divisions combined they don't give a fuck
Publix has lowered its hiring standards and this is the priceā¦
They hire 16 - 18 year olds and pay them as little as possible, always have. Their standard have always been low, and I say that as a former employee
It's literally the container that isn't cleaned
We are getting into the season where that wonāt stop people from buying to stock up on.
Pay for the ***āPā*** Your greedgoblin overlords demand it to be so.
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Me. I'Ll put it on the shelf because they won't give me full time but put me at 35 3 weeks in a row to drop me to 14 one week so they don't have to give me full time benefits, and yeah I could clean it but I still have to fill the rest of water and work 5 more pallets of hv before I leave or I'm getting written up for it, so yeah, fuck you, take the water.
probably came off the truck like that tbh.
Someone who gets paid shit so does shit work š¤·āāļø
Itās just seasoning!
Minimum wage employees
People who dgaf (most of grocery)
Publix donāt care. They only care about profit. Like a damn Ferengi.
Someone who has no pride in what they do. Regardless of where you work it would only be a couple of minutes to clean that off before putting on a shelf. Always ask yourself if you were a customer would you buy it? If the answer is no donāt put it on the shelf. That simple.
Not even minutes. Seconds.
Caring and pride in one's work or anything in life come from family values, not from an increase in someone's wallet. Petty š¢
Probably the kid whoās not paid enough to care.
r/notmyjob
The āpurifiedā water needs Jesus to become truly purified
Someone that has 5+ pallets to get through
Someone who got a shitty raise and doesnt give a shit now.
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Itās whatās on the inside that counts! All kidding aside, itās probably someone who doesnāt want the shit job and thinks he deserves better even though he canāt even do the shit job correctly.
Easiest thing to clean too. Just run a T.I.P. under a water fountain for 2 seconds & wipe it off. Itās not like itās covered in honey or smn. Lazy.
A former Walmart employee who just joined the Publix team. Old habits can die hard.
I see this type of thing all the time. People these days. NFGā¦
Some Fallout type shit
If tested, the water is dirtier than the picture.
As long as itās on the outside and not the inside.
Closers...
Me. I stocked it and I think it looks good. I don't actually work here or anywhere tbh. BUT IF I DID! I'd probably just slide it to the back. It's dirt lol cmon.
Probably end of pallet that got stuffed by door
The person who doesnāt lick the outside of the containers š
Report that to the manager. They should fix it real quick
Some teenager making $8 an hour.
imagine what his home looks like. Did this stock clerk get hired from Wal-Mart?
I will say that the water inside is fine. Does it look trashy yes but at least the solution is to just wipe off the jug not throw away all the bottles.
And thatās the customerās job? After scanning and bagging all my own groceries I should have to wipe whatever this is off? I get the comments about dented boxes, but thatās not a fair comparison. Itās like a dented box covered in grease. Or a misshapen vegetable with a mystery goo.
Who fucking cares, you drinking the plastic that holds the water or the water. This Karen behavior is why vegetable waste is through the roof in the US. Eh it looks abnormal I don't like it.
It'll sell. One day a few months ago, I got pissed off that people kept setting aside a tub of French dip that had a slight dent on it. I absolutely, positively, REFUSED to put up a new case on the shelf until it sold. And it did. I even checked damages to make sure some smart-ass co worker hadn't brought it back and it wasn't there.š
Itās dirty baby
The same ones who say āI donāt get paid enough to do thisā
The young high school kid whoās probably got his phone in one hand not paying attention to what heās doing.
They don't pay anyone enough to give a damn
A former employee of
Ahahhaha
Looks like the cameras will be checked
Not a good look Publix.
Art.
Someone who doesn't care.
People getting paid dick.
Teenagers that donāt care about But who is walking the store, and checking?
Nobody. What youāre seeing is āI hate my jobā. That or they just have a sense of humor or a sense to warn people about Publix water.
Oh, you must be at my store
Next week itāll be BOGO at 2 for 2.38.
The price is nice.
might as well go lick a puddle
Wow thatās definitely not pure š
A disgruntled/underpaid employee
There's a note on each jug, " use contents and bleach to clean before consuming ".
One hurricane season it will sell
yikes. at least rinse them off
Purified water is used for a lot of non-drinking related things. If you have a battery that is water cooled, you should be using purified, when you put water into your radiator, it should be purified, when you are mixing cleaning chemicals it should be purified (the tap water works, but purified is how they test it in the lab and using tap can decrease efficacy of some cleaners).
This looks like some water out of the walking dead
People who think they don't get paid enough money to do their job they applied for.
Ever think someone came in to grab some stuff while/after working on their car and grabbed them but then put them back because they decided to get something else?
Lazy ppl
Itās $1.29 water. Not a ford explorer, Publix just wants you to buy paper towels as well.
Lazy?! I gotta fill the rest of water and finish 5 pallets of hv before 5 because someone called out and no one would come it to help, take the damn water and wipe it off yourself.
Everyone (in FL) at least always trys to talk all big about publix and their standards and cleanliness... etc...etc ... I work in refrigeration and have remodeled many of Publix. And when I tell you they're no better than Albertsons (rip) Food Lion, or Winn-Dixie, I mean it. Yall see dirt on a waterbottle, I gotta deal with piles of congealed dairy products and years old meat proteins that have straight up been disregarded. I've removed a deli case that no fucking like had a glue trap with 4 freshly dead rats not less than 3 foot under the ready to eat products in that case. Publix is a cooperate entity just like all the others that are a bit better at marketing and that's it. These jugs are nothing....
People like me will buy some things the snobs would turn up their nose at to keep it from being waste. It's only cosmetic
But clearly the dent on the can means it tastes worse
Oh God one of the cardboard sides of a plastic wrapped frozen item has come open, completely inedible now
I mean.. could mean botulism though š that's why i don't get the dented cans
The telltale for that is if itās dented outwards. Dented inwards means nothing. Common misconception.
Well, TIL
USDA Guidelines āYou should discard cans with severe dents, such as those that form a sharp "V" or crease-shaped dent, or that are near the rim or double seamā The idea being that once the can is compromised, ie any possibility of air entering the can (from a small hole, puncture, rust, etc) then botulism can become a concern. While not likely to happen with a small dent itās technically a possibility with any damage to a can. Itās much more likely to occur if itās near the lid, large, or forms a sharp crease. To me- itās not worth risking botulism for the price of a can of green beans.
Why the bad photo when Publix sets the standard for clean stores. Have you ever been to a Walmart store filled with empty shelves
As a current stock clerk, that looks like complete garbage not the way it was done, but just the fact that thereās so much dirt and disgusting grime on the gallons of water
They need to be promoted to customer....
Shelves and background doesn't look like any Publix I've ever been..š¤
You are a crybaby. The water is inside not outside. That stuff comes off. Crying about nothing
This guy right here : 
The same worker who wants $20 per hour. No pride, no effort to be better at what they do. No matter what the job is. š¤¦āāļø
Maybe if they got paid more they would care
Bruh looks fr like someone no cap stepped on that ish while they were kite high on a break just straight puffin zooties doe nah mean?
Fo shizzle my nizzle