"Today 08:05 AM
Ricky Dale
When the site go's active at 6AM there will be a 60 second count down indicator (in red) towards the top of the page. That indicator will refresh every 60 seconds. Don't worried about the rest of the page/pages while that counter is active. If you are chosen that counter will disappear. At that point scroll down the page until you see a box that says make appointment. Click on that box. Once you are asked to pick a county and store, do not choose the first store or time in the county you want, you and a few dozen others may have clicked on the same store and time. You are then in a race to see who finishes the information first. (human nature is to pick the first store and time you see). Go into the county a few stores down and an hour or so in, you will be less likely to get bounced out too choose another store.
I have made four appointments in the last three sessions. Good luck."
Quoting Ricky here from the "other" Publix site in an attempt to direct the interesting discussion to one place.
Ricky: You make a great point. You are NOT competing with 300,000 people (the number that according to Publix, use the site), but you are in a time race for only that one time slot, after having chosen the county and store and date. So the fundamental principle is that for each of those choices, you pick the one you think is LEAST LIKELY to be chosen by others.
All that is discussed in my note #13. Of course the problem now is that most can't even get into the reservation system. That's discussed in my note #68 above.
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