Todd jones publix bio

Nineteen-eighty was a far more significant year for Publix Super Markets than anyone at the grocery chain could have realized at the time.

■ Bar-code scanners were introduced at its 234 locations throughout the state.

■ In a thoroughly unheralded personnel move, the chain hired Todd Jones, its future CEO, to bag groceries in New Smyrna Beach.

Jones — who became the company's president in 2008 — will succeed CEO Ed Crenshaw, grandson of Publix founder George W.

Jenkins, on April 30.

Publix declined to make Jones available for interviews. But this is how Terry Worthington, executive vice president for United Way of Florida, said Jones' start bagging groceries has informed his career.

“One of the things that is very impressive about him is that he started in an entry-level position at Publix and worked his way up on the strength of his incredible work ethic and intellect,” Worthington said.

“He is very intense, very deliberate, and he's totally committed t