Publix celebrated the opening of a west-central Florida store in a big way this week, with an employee driving through a neighborhood in a giant shopping cart that blasted a 1980s metal favorite.
With more than 862 stores already in the Sunshine State, the supermarket giant went big to mark the opening of a new store in Wesley Chapel on Wednesday. The day before the store was to open in the Epperson Lagoon neighborhood of the city, a Publix employee drove through the area with a giant shopping cart, the Miami Herald reported.
Perhaps playing off the supermarket’s longtime slogan, “Where shopping is a pleasure,” the driver of the massive cart blasted Poison’s 1988 song “ Nothin’ But a Good Time ” from its speakers, according to the newspaper.
Wesley Chapel resident Lauren Hunter filmed the big shopping cart’s rumble through the streets and posted a video to TikTok .
The video had more than 300,000 views and hundreds of comments as of Friday, the Herald reported. The response was overwhelmingly positive.