A nearly 4-month-old Facebook post now has caught the attention of weight-watching shoppers.
News outlets across Florida this week picked up on a note Publix posted on its Facebook post back on Aug. 19, which says its signature scales may become a thing of the past.
The reason?
The manufacturer, Mettler Toledo, quit producing the scales in 2015.
The scales have been a fixture in the stores since George Jenkins opened his first Publix supermarket in Winter Haven in 1940.
And while Publix posted that "our wonderful repair shop keeps our remaining machines in great shape," there will come a time when they will no longer be able to be repaired and will be pulled from store floors.
The news drew quite a bit of reaction on social media from some nostalgic folks who remember first climbing on the bulky scales as a child — and continue to do so.
Such memories of these scales from my childhood and the Publix on Dale Mabry.
— Lauring Lab (@LauringLab) December 2, 2021
The old school scale at Daytona Beach Publix is a tradition! 🤣
— Bradley Bryant (@bradleybrnt) December 1, 2021
First they stopped doing murals on new stores.
— Richard Albury (@_richardalbury) November 30, 2021
Then they stopped having scales in the stores.
They’ll have to pry my Pub sub out of my cold dead fingers! pic.twitter.com/ja5GdgP8ur
Not to worry though...yet. There's no indication the scales are going away anytime soon — as long as they continue to work.
