It's barely a job. - Part Time Produce Clerk Publix Employee Review

2.0
15 Mar 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The stores are clean and the customers are generally from middle class incomes and above. The front end (Customer Service) works hard at checking the customers out of the store.

Cons

Half of Publix workforce are part time employees with nominal wages, no vacation time, no sick time, no holiday pay or no quarterly inventory bonuses. Because of this structure, they can build a company where executives become exceedingly weathy. Pay raises for hourly employees are now limited to $0.15 I have never cleared $300.00 in a week and have worked up to 35 hours. Schedules are always posted at the very end of the week so there is no consideration towards Publix employees who have a life outside of Publix. Publix is the kind of company that you need to start with right out of high school and hang in there until you can obtain full time status and then get into management and work there for 30 years.

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Pros

Good work environment and clean store.

Cons

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3.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing 401K, free stock after one year of employment, health insurance is very good for part-time employees if only getting it for yourself, management always approves time off requests, hours are always available, will work around school schedules, tuition reimbursement program, will reimburse you for gas for work-related expenses as needed and will put you in a hotel as needed for work-related reasons that are more than 50 miles from your home.

Cons

Not every store is the same, some stores are run better than others, some managers look down upon people with disabilities, and some see people with disabilities the same as someone without disabilities, they are very big about favoritism, you have to work a lot to earn a vacation, the company does not give out sick time and full-time gets the most benefits and is next to impossible to get full-time. Also, you practically have to be a former employee with a clean record or related in some way to a current employee to get a job with the company though Kentucky Publix's don't quite function that way.

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