2018-09-21 18:46:25 -0400

VICTORY! The Orlando Sentinel reports:

"On Friday, Publix said it would allow store employees to wear beards, turning back decades of clean-chin tradition.

The new policy, which goes into effect Sept. 29, is the culmination of a long debate with employees over the issue.

Publix, Florida’s dominant grocery chain, began a trial allowing beards earlier this year at stores in North Carolina and Jacksonville but is now taking it to all 1,196 stores and 190,000 employees." https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/consumer/os-publix-beards-facial-hair-20180921-story.html