Publix store manager shares leadership secrets

With 17 department heads and 260 employees, an area Publix manager is pushed in many directions. One constant? Dish out praise often.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 7:30 p.m. May 28, 2020
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Lori Sax. Publix Store Manager Dan Murphy recently received the George W. Jenkins Award, named after Publix’s late founder.
Lori Sax. Publix Store Manager Dan Murphy recently received the George W. Jenkins Award, named after Publix’s late founder.
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Lakeland-based Publix is a grocery juggernaut.

With more than 1,200 stores in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, Publix is know for dominating the grocery landscape. Since its founding by George Jenkins in 1930, the grocery store chain has grown into a company with sales of $36.1 billion in 2018.

 

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