One wonders what George Jenkins might have envisioned when he opened his first Publix grocery store on Sept. 6, 1930, in Winter Haven, Florida. Could he have predicted that 90 years later there would be more than 1,200 Publix supermarkets in seven states with more than 220,000 employees? Or that his grocery store’s deli counter would come to be known for a sandwich lovingly referred to as the , which would be popular enough to ? Advertisement And what must have it been like to shop in a Publix store nine decades ago? Well, thanks to Publix, the public library in Lakeland — where Publix is...…One wonders what George Jenkins might have envisioned when he opened his first Publix grocery store on Sept. 6, 1930, in Winter Haven, Florida. Could he have predicted that 90 years later there would be more than 1,200 Publix supermarkets in seven states with more than 220,000 employees? Or that his grocery store’s deli counter would come to be known for a sandwich lovingly referred to as the , which would be popular enough to ? Advertisement And what must have it been like to shop in a Publix store nine decades ago? Well, thanks to Publix, the public library in Lakeland — where Publix is...WW…