There were a variety of groceries where I lived in Pensacola. Publix was there, but we also had Wal-Mart, the cost-plus groceries Greer’s Cash Saver and Grocery Advantage, as well as Winn-Dixie before Aldi’s took them over and turned them into the grocery store equivalent of watching paint dry.
And, of course, the best thing about all those is you could buy beer and wine in those places! Up here in Maryland, apparently, the government believes only alcoholics would shop in grocery stores that sell beer and wine, because that’s not allowed.
I paid $146 for 3.8 pounds of beef tenderloin. Expensive? Yes! But for me, it was about convenience and time. I could have paid a lot less elsewhere but chose Publix. The end. Everybody has that opportunity. So let’s cut the “criminal” verbiage and whining.