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Publix

American supermarket chain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Publix Super Markets, Inc., doing business as Publix, is an employee-owned American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation that is wholly owned by present and past employees and members of the Jenkins family. Publix operates throughout the Southeastern United States, with locations in Florida (898), Georgia (219), Alabama (96), South Carolina (74), Tennessee (62), North Carolina (62), Virginia (24), and Kentucky (7). Kentucky is the most recent addition to the Publix footprint, with the company's first store in that state having opened on January 10, 2024, in Louisville.

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The public source identifies “Publix” as american supermarket chain. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Publix, American and supermarket.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Publix, American and supermarket providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1930 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Publix” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.