New Publix on Hwy 98 in SoWal breaking ground

[Indigo Jill]

Sigh - they aren't breaking ground this week. Read full post HERE

Here is an email I received this morning:

Thank you for your email, Jill. We appreciate our customers taking the time to contact us because we care about your comments, and we value your business.

Jill, there is no ground breaking this week. Typically, Publix does not hold a formal ceremony when it breaks ground. I hope this information is helpful.

Again, thank you for taking the time to contact us. If we can be of any further assistance regarding this matter, please either call our Consumer Relations toll-free number at 1-800-242-1227, write us at the Publix Super Markets Corporate Office, PO Box 407, Lakeland, FL 33802, ATTN: Consumer Relations, or contact us at our website, publix.com and mention your reference number, # 506250.
Sincerely,
Leslie Spencer
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[Indigo Jill]

3 grocery stores located in the same zip code, drawing on the same labor pool & paying the same wages, regulated by the same government, selling the same products, and charging different prices? :angry:

I am very price conscious (2 boys = tons of $ on food) and I have been shopping at Publix for years. I shop at both the WaterColor Crossings AND Grand Boulevard location and I can't remember ever seeing one item at one store priced more/less at another. Maybe things are on sale at different times but I would be interested in hearing what things you have seen a price difference on?

 

[elgordoboy]

I am very price conscious (2 boys = tons of $ on food) and I have been shopping at Publix for years. I shop at both the WaterColor Crossings AND Grand Boulevard location and I can't remember ever seeing one item at one store priced more/less at another. Maybe things are on sale at different times but I would be interested in hearing what things you have seen a price difference on?

I second this. I thought I was paying more down here than in Atlanta at Publix also, at least for meat, then I actually looked at the prices.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Publix charging people different prices in different neighborhoods w/in the same community is what is frosting my cookies.

They aren't offering us choices in the great tradition of the free market system, they are ripping people off!

I think it's just my ethics/ideas of honesty meeting the lowered ones of the business community. Ranting over!

Scooterbug, let's look at the housing market. Let's say you build a 2000sf home in WaterColor, and you want to build the identical home in the town of Santa Rosa S/D, just north of hwy 98, off of 393. Do you really think that the sub contractors will charge the same amount for each build? Also, there is the ground upon which the homes sit. Do you think they cost the same amount? Convenience and location are the driving forces.

Thinking more about the word for which you are searching, is it "monopoly," rather than "price fixing?"

Today, I learned that when Publix opens the new PCB store at Home Depot, they will be closing the store on Middle Beach, which is not too far from the Home Depot store.

Jill, maybe my information about Publix breaking ground on the new SoWal Publix is incorrect. Keep in mind that as the lady who reported to you said, "Publix doesn't have formal ground breaking ceremonies." The new store isn't on their Store Managers' schedule to open in 2008. To my knowledge, Publix has not even publicly acknowledged that they are opening a new store on Hwy 98, however, they went before both the WalCo Planning Comm and the BCC requesting permission to build it. I guess we will get it when we get it.

Since Publix doesn't formally announce plans to break ground, I wonder if they are at liberty to say when they WILL break ground. I doubt it. We should test them and ask them if they plan to break ground on that new site before the end of 2009.

 

[TooFarTampa]

Today, I learned that when Publix opens the new PCB store at Home Depot, they will be closing the store on Middle Beach, which is not too far from the Home Depot store.

Jill, maybe my information about Publix breaking ground on the new SoWal Publix is incorrect. Keep in mind that as the lady who reported to you said, "Publix doesn't have formal ground breaking ceremonies." The new store isn't on their Store Managers' schedule to open in 2008. To my knowledge, Publix has not even publicly acknowledged that they are opening a new store on Hwy 98, however, they went before both the WalCo Planning Comm and the BCC requesting permission to build it. I guess we will get it when we get it.

Since Publix doesn't formally announce plans to break ground, I wonder if they are at liberty to say when they WILL break ground. I doubt it. We should test them and ask them if they plan to break ground on that new site before the end of 2009.

Publix tends to be about new stores. At this point the best information you may get is what is filed with the planning commission and what was on the agenda in the BCC meeting. (An appearance before the BCC indicates a zoning change request.) If you call the zoning and planning dept and ask the status of the project, you will probably get a decent idea. If the plans are approved and permits are pulled, you can bet groundbreaking is coming up. You need to know the address of the project though probably. Does Publix own the property? Sometimes a developer is working on their behalf.

 

[Smiling JOe]

"Publix" doesn't own the property. I use to do some business with a guy who sought out property for Publix and CVS. "Publix" nor "CVS" were never mentioned to the sellers and were never found on the real estate contracts.

 

[ASH]

Update on Publix: I just drove over to where Publix has the sign on the North side of 98. It is exactly one mile East of 393 to the sign. I was interested in the sign because I saw a lady making changes to the sign the other day.
The sign no reads that there will be a meeting at the Defuniak Springs Courthouse on February 26 with the Board of County Commissioners. The time for the meeting is 5PM.
This would tell me that this means that the development order probably hasn't been fully hammered in stone just yet.
It would be interesting to know if anyone has plans on attending that meeting.
Where they are planning to build is out there all by itself. It will push the local area further East to fill it out which would be unfortunate IMO.

 

[scooterbug44]

Scooterbug, let's look at the housing market. Let's say you build a 2000sf home in WaterColor, and you want to build the identical home in the town of Santa Rosa S/D, just north of hwy 98, off of 393. Do you really think that the sub contractors will charge the same amount for each build? Also, there is the ground upon which the homes sit. Do you think they cost the same amount? Convenience and location are the driving forces.

Good example, but I also consider it VERY dishonest to charge different prices for the same work! I'm sure there are many justifications/business models to explain it, but it's just not kosher in my world.

 

[Matt J]

Good example, but I also consider it VERY dishonest to charge different prices for the same work! I'm sure there are many justifications/business models to explain it, but it's just not kosher in my world.

Look comrade scooterbug! Over there it's something shiney!

 

[scooterbug44]

I don't think large scale communism is fair either!