Seen the same thing at my Publix.
There is also now a sign in my Publix that they will not let you use a credit card to purchase any gift card over $50 in value.
Originally Posted by
foggypastry
Stopped by two different Publix stores in the past two weeks, both got denied when using a Publix gift card to purchase a gift card. Thought it was limited to Visa prepaids, but also appears to apply to regular gift cards, too. (Had a cart full of food + 2 groupon gift cards and clerk stopped ENTIRE transaction when I attempted to pay with publix gift card. Manager literally had to come by and cancel the two gift cards, so I am 99% sure it is POS coded to stop you.)
Verifying with other members to see if this is the case.
I did notice they were slowly rolling this out the last couple of months, but didn't think they'd do a full POS stop to it!