Posted on 01/01/2026 6:35:56 AM PST by V_TWIN
Publix has long been considered Florida's favorite supermarket, but it seems customers are turning their backs on the grocery giant.
One frustrated shopper recently took to Reddit to air their grievances after picking up a prime tenderloin steak at a Publix store in Yulee, Florida.
A photo of the package showed the meat priced at a jaw-dropping $61.49 — or $49.99 per pound.
'This is criminal,' the customer wrote.
'You can get a full ribeye or tenderloin dinner with table bread, 2 sides and softdrinks in Florida at a Outback, texas roadhouse or Longhorn for $26 - $31,' one wrote.
'Publix is wildly overpriced,' someone else chimed in.
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Our Kroger isn’t ghetto, but they are staffed by total incompetents, save the butcher who is so kind, but getting older. He is helpful. No one else there is worth the time, and the prices are just too high. I only go there if I’m desperate. There is one clerk there that annoys me completely. She is a total moron. She is magically there every time I shop there. If I see her when I walk in, I turn around and leave.
Case in point. I was coming home from lunch with my girlfriend yesterday and I wanted to stop at the Publix on Pleasant Hill Rd to pick up a nice corned beef for New Year.
But the traffic was starting to get really bad at 3:30pm so finally I gave up and took a shortcut to the Ghetto Kroger and picked up a corned beef there. 5 minutes ago I took the corned beef out of the package to put it in the slow cooker and its just horrible. Mostly fat. $20 down the drain. There’s likely about enough meat on it for one meal for the two of us. Never again.
That’s a shame. A good cut of corned beef is so wonderful! I meant to look for one near the New Year, but we have some frigid temps, and I already had ham. So forgot I wanted to look for a good corned beef. If I get a good cut, I can make 3 amazing meals from that one. Tomorrow I will venture out! Maybe there will be a few of them left!
Must be nice. My nearest Costco is 2 hours drive away. There is one grocery store in town, a second one 40 minutes away, then Wal-Mart and several other stores another half-hour past that.
That said, I love the little ranching community I live in, and the beef here is beyond delicious.
Of course they only show a Publiz premium cut of their premium meat.
Not the regular meat.
“”””””Well, $300 a week for two people is living pretty good.””””””
No kidding, talk about gold plated eating.
Costco used to be an hour away, but they finally built a new one in the next town over, about a 15-20 minute drive depending on the traffic. I’m very much enjoying having access to the nicer cuts of beef. Those $5 rotisserie chickens are an amazing deal, too, and fully feed the two of us at least 3 times, if not more. After having it warm like a roast chicken, I shred what’s left, and use it in casseroles or chicken salad, whatever. Very versatile, and so easy on the wallet.
When the Bounty paper towels aren’t on sale, the Kirkland brand ones are pretty sufficient. I’m very much enjoying having Costco somewhat near me.
We have a monthly food budget which is a subset of our overall budget. If meats fit into the budget we get some, usually chicken sometimes pork or beef in it’s various forms but not very often steaks. Least anyone thinks we are poor we are not, the reason we are not poor is we budget and we stick to the budget. Sometimes we buy a steak although I can’t remember the last time. I’m out of principle not paying more for something just to make us feel like we are not poor. That question is settled when we look at our retirement portfolio and bank accounts. When we do buy steak we go to a butcher get the cut we want and pay whatever the butcher charges. We always wash it down with Yeuengling Lager.
A lot of restaurants use cuts off utility cattle to serve
to their customers. Especially the luncheon filets.
Yeah, I go out of my way to shop at my local Pavilions because there’s no cultural enrichment, and what a coincidence! No merchandise locked behind glass, either! Nobody is shoplifting and no kids are running and screeching down the aisles. Employees are efficient and courteous. It’s worth the extra distance and money to shop there. It’s getting to the point where I choose my stores based on how much merchandise is locked up, because that’s a sign of other things.
Yep. It's worth the premium to not have to deal with nignogs. And before you call me racist, there's black shoppers as well paying the premium to avoid the same thing.
Funny story. I just sold my house I'd been renting out. My old neighbors, a married black couple, retired military, still keep in touch with me. The first question they asked about the new owners, "Are they black or white?"
"White. Young couple."
"Thank God."
See my post in the same thread. I used to buy boxes of t-bones sourced from dairy cattle. The tenderloins were sold to restaurants for their luncheon steaks and this was in Omaha, Nebraska, home of some of the best steakhouses in the world.
My fresh meat buying primarily consists of occasional 85% lean ground beef for the grill. My last buy was about $10 for 4 patties, 20 oz.
Yes, indeed. There’s black folk and then, there’s those umm other types. I live in an area where there’s more black folk. We’re all neighborly to one another, mostly.
We usually get two meals and sandwiches out of a corned beef. From the looks of this one maybe a meal and a sandwich.
Here’s a little grocery secret....
Go to the meat shop at 8:55pm right before they close up and see if they’re about to toss out anything due to expire.
They will discount it about 50% sometimes - stock up :)
I think it was owned by the same people long ago.
Indeed. And as much as I hate nignogs you know who hates nignogs even more? The good black folks (and there are many) who have to live with them!
Case in point, the success story that is today's Baltimore.
Not many are talking about it but we should.
Baltimore, Maryland will enter 2026 as perhaps the only black-led major Democrat metropolis that isn't run like an African warlord kleptocratic dystopia.
How did this happen? Simple. The good black folks in Baltimore finally got tired of nignog mayhem that they fired Marilyn Mosby, the Soros-bought prosecutor who let the gangs run the streets and hired fellow black, Ivan J. Bates, who went full Bukele on the city and started locking the thugs up.
And almost overnight, the crime rate plummeted! Imagine that!
You can just do things.
This looks to be some special organic, no antibiotics, Greenwise beef. That kind is always expensive.
Right after the 2020 ComDem theft of the office of the President, the people making the policies remove millions of acres of public lands out west that, for over a century, were used by ranchers for grazing purposes. Those lands had/have no better use. Ranchers had to decrease the size of their herds.
IIRC it was then in 2023 when there was a large drought out west that forced the ranchers to cull their herds further due to the lack of grazing ability.
It takes several years to increase bovine herds versus fowl or other forms of meat. 2025 has only been two years since the drought so the prices will decrease slowly over the next couple of years.
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