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Over the weekend, I was shopping at our neighborhood Publix. Normally, I can do my shopping with my eyes closed. However, this weekend, I was constantly stopping for directions. Especially when it came to bread. Today, I recieved this email:

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A quick update to let you know what is going on at your neighborhood Publix and why you can’t find the bread anymore. We are finally going to have a real Greenwise/organic section. The area where the bread has been is going to become a Greenwise section, which meant things had to move. Some of the benefits of this, besides the Greenwise is more space on bottled water, more space on Arizona Tea/Snapple. Bringing a Hard Bread(Melba Toast, Bread sticks, etc.) section into the store. Not hiding the Peanut Butter section anymore.

So a quick breakdown of where everything is:

• Bread and Peanut Butter/Jelly is on the Dairy aisle #8.
• Peanuts and popcorn are now next to the sodas, aisle #6.
• Picnic supplies are next to the tuna fish, aisle #3 .
•  Bug spray is on the detergent aisle, aisle #7.

I know we don’t like change, but I believe this will result in long term positives for your shopping experience. Please do not hesitate to contact me at 238-7720 if you have any questions/comments on these moves. After a couple of weeks, you won’t even remember you had to go looking for them and you will be happy you don’t have to shop somewhere else for your organic pasta, soups, cookies, etc.
Thanks for shopping with me and for helping me make the store better everyday. I really do listen and try to make you happy that we are your neighborhood store.

Chuck Kaelin, Store Manager Publix #511

TAMPA — A 19-year-old Tampa man was arrested early this morning in conjunction with the armed robbery of a Nebraska Avenue Publix last week.

Police said Terrell D. Limehouse, of 811 E Louisiana (pictured), who works at the Publix at 6001 N Nebraska Ave., was seated on the counter of the service desk when two masked men took more than $2,000 from an office at the grocery about 10 p.m. Based on phone calls, text messages and a video of the robbery, police said Limehouse helped plan the heist.

Limehouse was charged with armed robbery and taken to the Hillsborough County Jail, where he remains without bail.

From the St. Petersburg Times

This came from an email:  (I did not know this. I remember how “cute” the old Publix used to be. I now have to rent the movie to see some neighborhood history. If you have lots of time, you can rent the original from 1961, then follow up with this one, Parent Trap II from 1986)
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Driving throughout Seminole Heights , you will find that many large, national Corporations have offices and locations within our boundaries. For example: Verizon, Circle K, Publix, Dollar General, Family Dollar, Discount Auto, Sweetbay Supermarkets, Walgreens, Starbucks (and I am sure I am missing some.) This does not include the large corporations that are franchised own: Mobile , Texaco, Vallero, etc.

As you look at many of these large, for profit corporations, you can’t help but notice the poorly kept properties. Since Verizon has been in our neighborhood, very little has been done to improve their property. Even though it is on one of our major intersection. Jumping to the next major intersection, you have Advance Auto which has had many problems keeping up with their property. With oil bottles strewn about, I think they have finally given up.

For the most part, most larger businesses do their part to improve our neighborhood. However, all it takes is one or two to destroy years worth of effort and hard work.

Do you think their corporate offices are aware of the conditions of their properties? Do you think they care? Does the city’s code office cite them by the same rules residential and smaller companies are held? What’s your thoughts?