‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot

Families are boycotting Publix after a member of founding family donated $300,000 to the Donald Trump rally that preceded January's deadly Capitol attack

Wendy Mize's family grew up on Publix, disciples to the giant supermarket chain's empirical marketing slogan: Where shopping is a pleasure". As infants, her three daughters wore diapers bought from the Publix baby club. As children, they munched on free cookies from the bakery. There were even perks for the family's pets, who are proud members of Publix Paws.

But now the decades-long love affair is over. After a member of Publix's founding family donated $300,000 to the Donald Trump rally that preceded January's deadly Capitol riots, Mize is pulling out of what she says has become an abusive, dysfunctional relationship", and joining others in a boycott of the Florida-based grocery chain that operates more than 1,200 stores across seven south-eastern states.