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Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Aldi, Costco. Which grocer sees the most Florida shoppers?

Which supermarket is the favorite in Florida? SafeGraph gathered foot traffic data for Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Aldi and Costco to see which one is the busiest.
Which supermarket is the favorite in Florida? SafeGraph gathered foot traffic data for Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Aldi and Costco to see which one is the busiest. AP

Which supermarket do you think is the busiest in Florida?

Is it Publix, with its Pub Sub fan base?

Could it be Walmart, where people can buy dinner, clothes and video games, all in the same outing?

Maybe Winn-Dixie is King of the Sunshine State grocers.

Or perhaps it’s bargain-centric Aldi.

Could it be big-box Costco, with all those samples?

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Use the interactive chart below to compare each supermarket’s monthly foot traffic in Florida. Hover over sections for details about each store.

This chart uses anonymous mobile location data gathered by data collecting service SafeGraph and should be considered a sample of each supermarket’s foot traffic. For the purpose of this chart, a visit is defined as staying at the location for more than four minutes.

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This story was originally published August 30, 2022 at 11:23 AM with the headline "Publix, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Aldi, Costco. Which grocer sees the most Florida shoppers?."

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription