PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Freebies and a giant motorized shopping cart helped celebrate Publix\u2019s grand opening at its new 48,000+ sq. ft. Port St. Lucie store.<\/p>\n
The new store is located at Riverland Town Center on the 12400 block of SW Community Blvd, and for many opening day shoppers– it was a long time coming.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of people living out here so we need more stores,” said Port St. Lucie resident Lorene Mauri. “We absolutely needed more Publix’s so I’m just glad there’s another one to shop at.”<\/p>\n
See also: Florida man found deceased on Mt. Washington after three-day search<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe are excited to welcome customers to their new Publix,\u201d said Lindsey Willis, Publix media relations manager. \u201cThe store reflects our commitment to quality, service, and fresh offerings. It also features an upstairs area with both indoor and outdoor seating for customers to sit and enjoy their favorite Publix finds!\u201d<\/p>\n The new location offers departments for grocery, dairy, frozen food, seafood, meat, and fresh produce in addition to a full-service bakery, deli, pharmacy, and a separate Publix Liquors.<\/p>\n To celebrate the grand opening, Publix sent out a giant motorized Publix shopping cart to travel through the community for the entirety of opening day.<\/p>\n In addition to the giant cart spectacle, Publix also handed out commemorative reusable bags to the first 95 customers in line on opening day.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Freebies and a giant motorized shopping cart helped celebrate Publix\u2019s grand opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3407,3409,3404,3408,171,173,172,2231,3405,3406],"class_list":{"0":"post-2860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-customers","9":"tag-fresh-offerings","10":"tag-grand-opening","11":"tag-grocery","12":"tag-port-st-lucie","13":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","15":"tag-publix","16":"tag-riverland-town-center","17":"tag-shopping-cart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}