I know I have lived in a pretty sheltered life.  This is new for me.  There are 2 Publix stores within a 10 minute drive from here.  One is a typical store with high shelves, close aisles and dim lighting.  The other grocery store is new, wide aisles, and well lit.  It also boasts a parking garage on the first floor.  Where is the store?  On the second story.  My first experience in a Publix Grocery store with an escalator!

There are actually 3 escalator lanes.  One for going up.  One for going down.  The third middle lane is for the cart.

Publix grocery store – modern convenience with an escalator

After shopping you push your cart onto a track at the top of the escalator and your cart follows you down to the ground floor.  “Don’t worry, you will beat the cart down at the bottom,” a man told me. I must have looked worried.  He was right.  The people escalator moved a couple of seconds faster getting me down to the bottom before my cart got pushed off its track.  The cart was held in place…. horizontally…without tipping over. Neato!

My grocery cart just in front of me.

The first time I visited this store, I was worried that the cart would tip over since I had a very heavy load.  I took the elevator.  The elevator is very big and very long.  When you return carts after loading up your car in the garage or outside parking lot, the employees gather them up and take 15- 20 at a time up the elevator to the 2nd floor cart area.  The elevator is easily long enough to handle a line of 20 carts.  Ahhh, that is how they get back up top!  The elevator, of course.

Marina Jack Concierge Shuttle

The marina has a concierge service for their marina tenants.   When I have needed to go to Publix, these folks drop me off and pick me up an hour later.  Wayne is usually waiting with one of the marina black bins, very much like the ones at Burnt Store, upon my return to lug our bags of food from the front of the marina to our boat.

Yes, Whole Foods is a half mile away but they don’t have some of the goodies we like to eat.  Like PopTarts and potato chips.  hahaha  There is nothing organic in a pop tart, I am sure!  AND Carrying a case of water on my back from Whole Foods maybe a stretch.  With the concierge service, we can get all the heavy bulky items easier.