On May 25 , 2018 , student activists and survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting , including David Hogg , planned a boycott of Publix , which would have included " die-in " protests at several Publix supermarkets , because of the $ 670,000 that the company made to Adam Putnam , a Republican candidate for Florida governor and self-described " proud NRA sell-out " who opposed new state gun restrictions created in response to the school shooting . Moments before the protests began , the company announced that it would suspend corporate-funded political contributions and reevaluate their political funding practices . Despite the company 's announcement , David Hogg led a die-in on May 25 , 2018 at a Publix supermarket with parents and students from Stoneman Douglas High School for 720 seconds , the approximate number of school shootings in recent history . Six days after halting political contributions , the Florida Retail Federation , a trade group heavily funded ( > 80 % in 2017 ) by Publix , donated an additional $ 100,000 to Putnam 's Florida Grown political action committee
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