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title: "Publix: Grocery Ordering and Savings App | Shockoe"
description: "How Shockoe built and supports the Publix mobile app, from shopping lists to in-store pickup, coupons, and payments, now used by 8M+ people."
canonical: "https://shockoe.com/our-work/publix/"
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# Grocery Ordering and Savings App

> How Shockoe built and supports the Publix mobile app, from shopping lists to in-store pickup, coupons, and payments, now used by 8M+ people.

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Publix

Client

*Publix*

Sector

Grocery & Retail

What we did

Native iOS and Android app design and development, commerce, and ongoing support

*A hand holding a phone that shows the Publix app home screen, with a shopper pushing a cart in a produce aisle behind it.*

## From shopping list to checkout.

### The challenge

Publix is one of the largest employee-owned supermarket chains in the United States, with more than a thousand stores across the Southeast. Its app is the hub for ordering, savings, meal planning, and customer engagement, but some paths left shoppers stuck. People would build a shopping list in the app and then find there was no way to submit it for purchase.

### The build

Native iOS and Android apps built around a clear shopping journey. New shoppers get short modals and toast messages that explain how to add to a list, and clear next steps for delivery, curbside pickup, or in-store pickup.

The apps include in-store pickup with order history and reorder, digital coupons and weekly ads, a wallet for digital gift cards and e-receipts, online payment, and catering add-ons with an in-store digital cake book. Shockoe designed and built the apps and continues to support them.

## The result

More than 8 million people use the app, and it holds a rating of 4.8 stars or higher on both the iOS and Android app stores.

* 8M+ Mobile app users
* 4.8+ Star rating on both the iOS and Android app stores

## Project images

* *The Savings screen listing the weekly ad, digital coupons, and all deals.*
* *The weekly ad screen with deal categories such as bakery, deli, produce, and meat, each with a count of deals.*
* *A deli product page with the price, a Favorite button, and a Reorder button.*
* *The Review Order screen with one item, a Continue Shopping button, and a Schedule Order button showing the total.*
* *An order summary showing the store, the pickup time, and three deli items with their prices.*
* *The In-Store Pickup screen with order history, submitted and canceled orders, and a Reorder All Items button.*

## Questions about this project

### What does the Publix app do?

It is the hub for shopping with Publix: shoppers build lists, order online for delivery, curbside pickup, or in-store pickup, clip digital coupons, browse the weekly ad, pay, and review past orders.

### What did Shockoe change for first-time shoppers?

Shoppers could build a shopping list without a clear way to turn it into an order. Short modals and toast messages now explain how to add to a list, and the next steps for delivery, curbside, or in-store pickup are clear, so shoppers keep going instead of giving up.

### Can shoppers reorder past purchases?

Yes. Order history keeps submitted orders in one place, and a shopper can reorder all the items in a past in-store pickup order in a tap.

### How many people use the app?

More than 8 million people use the Publix app, and it holds a rating of 4.8 stars or higher on both the iOS and Android app stores.

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