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Article: Publix diary shines in the sun.(From the Editor's Desk)
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- Dairy Foods
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Having grown up in Florida in the 1960s and '70s, I have some personal connections to Publix Super Markets. I feel I should disclose the facts right here for the sake of journalistic integrity.
There was just one Publix store in my hometown of Miramar back then. There are now at least three in Miramar, which has become a long slip of a suburb, with enclaves stretching across what used to be cow pastures, rock pits and snake-infested scrubland.
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When I was in high school my mother worked in the Danish Bakery attached to that lone Publix. You could buy items across a counter from the main store, or just visit the bakery ...