Since I lost my chance for First to Review (to someone from out of state, if you can believe), I kinda lost the incentive to do a "quick" review of this, the closest Publix to where I live. Now, exactly 6 months later, it's time I make amends. My feelings about this most-famous Floridian chain is well Publixized: the love-hate is driven by some pretty outrageous non-sale prices, especially for meats, produce, deli ... as compared to alternative sources, balanced off by some great BOGOs they have (and to their credit, they're almost NEVER out of stock on sale items), not the least being some good wines (the Michael David ones from about two months back come to mind) and great IPAs + other beers: why beer-drinkers wouldn't wait until these events and want to pay full price is something I'll find hard to comprehend. The other plus about Publix is their great service. Yesterday, after having witnessed this phenomenon for quite a few weeks, I decided to do something about it. You see: I seldom use spaghetti sauces like Ragu or Prego any more; I prefer to use fresh or canned tomatoes to do my marinara sauce 'from scratch', when I can lavish my own herbs upon it. But with white sauces, I still get lazy, but I'd still wait till their sales come on. Well for the longest time, I've noticed that, every time they have these sauces on sale (this week it's Classico), their white varieties always sell out, or at least they're out by the time I get to it, while the red ones are fully stocked. So I sought out a manager (Glen) to talk to him about it. He then 'discovered' that they hadn't been sold out - they just hadn't had any shipments for a whole month. Not sure if this is something that Glen and team can control, but he was gracious and grateful that I pointed this out. He even offered to let me have another brand for the same sale price, which was a very nice gesture, and a nice thing to do. read more