Publix expands its 'drink beer and wine while you shop' concept

Florida’s dominant grocer — where they ask customers "Did you find everything you need?" — adds an element to make shopping less of a chore.

By Mark Gordon
| 5:00 a.m. February 28, 2023
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Sandy Pierre works in the Publix Pours at a Naples location on a recent morning.

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Add family World Cup soccer watch parties to the long list of things Publix is known for.

The scene: It was early December when Publix Naples area District Manager Julian Agollari spotted the families. There were two, each with four or five kids. The kids and their parents gathered around a TV set inside a Publix, a converted Lucky’s Market that had recently opened on Tamiami Trail in east Naples. After the game ended, the families, says Agollari, went “into aisles and started shopping.”