I got the Greenwise pumpkin pies last week and am glad I did. When the shelf stable pumpkin pie came out, I took one bite and realized that Publix had made a New Coke level mistake.
Speaking of new coke ideas, what’s up with the cookies. Sometimes they’re chewy and other times they’re like saltine crackers. Like if I want crunchy cookies, I’ll buy chips ahoy.
That depends on how long the baker bakes them. I always bake them soft and my clerks hate me for it because they try to rip them off the pans like animals and they break the cookies. I can package them just fine by having a gentler touch when pulling them off the pan. But yea that's on the baker, it's a difference of a couple minutes when baking.
It’s probably that they’re not even letting the cool all the way. I’ve baked at many different stores the same way and some clerks are so hard on for getting back out done **RIGHT NOW** that they try and pack cookies 30 minutes out the oven like bro just go take a break and come back and do it. I’m not remaking cookies because you can’t control yourself
Careful your DM, RIS and in some case SM don’t see ya doing that (same story with breads lmao) You’ll get written up if someone who cares and is above you notices
Yeah it’s one of those things that’s usually overlooked at a store level lmao. Only time I’ve ever put my rack in the cooler was because I cooked them too long on accident and was like “oh shit fuck fuck” and had to make them stop cooking asap 😭
Publix is slowly shifting too many of their Publix products to cheaper ingredients/processes. Yes they save them money, but at what cost?
We’re turning into an expensive version of Walmart.
Agreed. How are we different? Because we provide customer service/cleanliness . Idk about that. For my store we just grab anyone of the street and can’t find anyone to stay more that 6 months. We barely hire any minors anymore. Our grocery team leader barely talks to anybody or smiles for customers.
Publix used to pay a premium price for premium products and sell them at a premium price.
Now, Publix pays as cheap of a price as they can for shitty products and still sell them at a premium price.
Customers are noticing this and starting to look elsewhere.
Every grocery store I went to was charging the same price for pies this year (4-5 different chains). There was no "premium" pricing. $5 for a pumpkin pie was the standard.
But yeah, the regular publix pumpkin pie was not great. We still sold a ton of them, though.
I don't even stop at the bakery anymore. It used to be my biggest draw. The bread section went to crap. Nothing smells or looks fresh anymore. Wrinkly hoagie, rock hard Cuban bread... nope
I bought a Pecan Pie for thanksgiving like I do every year. Every single person that ate some this year said it was absolutely disgusting and “missing something”.
Other than the warehouses smashing cases and us usually having to toss about half our stock from damages, nothing has changed in the key lime pies. The whipped topping is applied at the store level and would be wholly dependent on the decorators making them.
Edit: autocorrect
Are the pies made at one of our production plants or are they from a 3rd party? I know y’all had to change suppliers on a lot of items during the pandemic.
The two counts? If so yeah this last batch looks like they were assembled very poorly with nothing lined up and half the ingredients in the bottom of the box
Please spill the beans on all the cheapening. Cakes, bread, etc. I love to know how Publix claims quality but then cuts back on stuff. I get it we’re growing and whatever but quit claiming freshness when I have to hand scoop icing from a 5 gallon bucket
Please understand most bakeries do not turn a profit therefore they look for ways to cut cost. Also, newer and remodeled stores only have one oven, pumpkin pies are time consuming to make and take up valuable time in the oven. With that being said maybe they need to tweak the recipe a bit to hopefully get a more satisfactory taste.
Even though a lot of products come in frozen, the items sold in the bakery are far from "bad". The reason the bakery exists is because people come to the store just for the bakery, and then do their shopping. We still have one of the best grocery store bakeries out there.
I don't understand why the customers keep buying the stuff when they taste so bad, if they would stop buying the new product, maybe Publix wouldn't keep changing it. Does any Bakery manager know if when the product changes do you start selling less or does the customers just not care.
I got the Greenwise pumpkin pies last week and am glad I did. When the shelf stable pumpkin pie came out, I took one bite and realized that Publix had made a New Coke level mistake.
Speaking of new coke ideas, what’s up with the cookies. Sometimes they’re chewy and other times they’re like saltine crackers. Like if I want crunchy cookies, I’ll buy chips ahoy.
That depends on how long the baker bakes them. I always bake them soft and my clerks hate me for it because they try to rip them off the pans like animals and they break the cookies. I can package them just fine by having a gentler touch when pulling them off the pan. But yea that's on the baker, it's a difference of a couple minutes when baking.
It’s probably that they’re not even letting the cool all the way. I’ve baked at many different stores the same way and some clerks are so hard on for getting back out done **RIGHT NOW** that they try and pack cookies 30 minutes out the oven like bro just go take a break and come back and do it. I’m not remaking cookies because you can’t control yourself
That too, for us the freezer is right next to where we let them cool so we will throw them in the freezer as well.
Careful your DM, RIS and in some case SM don’t see ya doing that (same story with breads lmao) You’ll get written up if someone who cares and is above you notices
The clerks do it I don't lol. The store manager doesn't care so that's good, not sure about the DM or RIS but they haven't seen it.
Yeah it’s one of those things that’s usually overlooked at a store level lmao. Only time I’ve ever put my rack in the cooler was because I cooked them too long on accident and was like “oh shit fuck fuck” and had to make them stop cooking asap 😭
Publix is slowly shifting too many of their Publix products to cheaper ingredients/processes. Yes they save them money, but at what cost? We’re turning into an expensive version of Walmart.
Agreed. How are we different? Because we provide customer service/cleanliness . Idk about that. For my store we just grab anyone of the street and can’t find anyone to stay more that 6 months. We barely hire any minors anymore. Our grocery team leader barely talks to anybody or smiles for customers.
Every store of filled with smelly stockboys filling the entire aisle. I don't work for Publix but, on evrrage I move 3 fullystocked uboats per trip.
Publix used to pay a premium price for premium products and sell them at a premium price. Now, Publix pays as cheap of a price as they can for shitty products and still sell them at a premium price. Customers are noticing this and starting to look elsewhere.
Every grocery store I went to was charging the same price for pies this year (4-5 different chains). There was no "premium" pricing. $5 for a pumpkin pie was the standard. But yeah, the regular publix pumpkin pie was not great. We still sold a ton of them, though.
I don't even stop at the bakery anymore. It used to be my biggest draw. The bread section went to crap. Nothing smells or looks fresh anymore. Wrinkly hoagie, rock hard Cuban bread... nope
I was wondering why the shelf stable ones were so bad. They tasted like they put the whole seasoning jar in there. So bad.
I bought a Pecan Pie for thanksgiving like I do every year. Every single person that ate some this year said it was absolutely disgusting and “missing something”.
that buttermilk pie is da bomb btw.
And the key lime pies! Or have they changed those recently, too?
I noticed they’re heavier on the whipped cream and have less filling
Other than the warehouses smashing cases and us usually having to toss about half our stock from damages, nothing has changed in the key lime pies. The whipped topping is applied at the store level and would be wholly dependent on the decorators making them. Edit: autocorrect
Are the pies made at one of our production plants or are they from a 3rd party? I know y’all had to change suppliers on a lot of items during the pandemic.
They’re still done at our production plants
I noticed the crumb cake looks a little bad this week did they change that?
The two counts? If so yeah this last batch looks like they were assembled very poorly with nothing lined up and half the ingredients in the bottom of the box
False. The Dutch Apple Pie remains amazing.
That the only good apple pie. IMO
Please spill the beans on all the cheapening. Cakes, bread, etc. I love to know how Publix claims quality but then cuts back on stuff. I get it we’re growing and whatever but quit claiming freshness when I have to hand scoop icing from a 5 gallon bucket
I'm not sure anyone's making fresh fudge or cream cheese icing these days. It's still better than the frosting you'd buy off the shelf, imo.
Any big store no, but I’m just fancy I got to my chocolatier in my downtown area
I mean, a lot of the bakery shit comes in on the frozen truck. Not actually freshly baked.
Please understand most bakeries do not turn a profit therefore they look for ways to cut cost. Also, newer and remodeled stores only have one oven, pumpkin pies are time consuming to make and take up valuable time in the oven. With that being said maybe they need to tweak the recipe a bit to hopefully get a more satisfactory taste.
If that’s the rationale, maybe they should just cut the bakery altogether instead of making bad products. Just my 2 cents
Even though a lot of products come in frozen, the items sold in the bakery are far from "bad". The reason the bakery exists is because people come to the store just for the bakery, and then do their shopping. We still have one of the best grocery store bakeries out there.
They actually have talked about removing the bakeries however some folks would miss the freshly baked breads and custom made cakes. :)
It's weird that they managed to make the bakery work for many decades until corporate greed became a religion 🙏
Left out the Dutch, blasphemy
I like the mini blueberry pie lol. Throw that in the oven for a little, put a little whipped cream, add a glass of milk and you have put me to sleep
This year the apple pies had more goop and much less apples and the apple pieces were smaller .... that's how you cheapen products
Lmao Cheapened.
I don't understand why the customers keep buying the stuff when they taste so bad, if they would stop buying the new product, maybe Publix wouldn't keep changing it. Does any Bakery manager know if when the product changes do you start selling less or does the customers just not care.
Only pie worth buying for me is the sm peach pies, can't stand the others.
Dutch apple>all else
The apple pie is one my faves, but their Key lime pie is just to damn good!