Fred Meyer,

4615 196th Street Southwest, Lynnwood, WA 98036

"Well lit. Cleaner than some of the other locations even though it's an older one. Crazy busy after 4. I like to come early. You can also order online. In my opinion they have some of the best produce."

"Having empathy for overworked store employees doesn't mean putting up with condescension or rudeness. I've shopped here heavily for the past two years. This store is frequently out of carts even when it's not busy. I'm not elderly or disabled, but this will clearly be an issue if you are. Over the past 2-3 months, the self-checkout has become increasingly difficult to use. One store employee admitted the registers were problematic when everyone in her self-checkout area had their lights blinking due to issues. Everyone. Today we received a weirdly snarky comment when we experienced what would be the first of many issues with the register. Honestly, the comment was incredibly passive aggressive and inappropriate, and given that it was out of the gate, it's possible he's speaking to everyone this way (which should be a concern for store management - at the very least send this dude to the breakroom to rest). A few weeks ago it was an inappropriately rude employee checking my ID for alcohol rather than my husband -- who was the person actually buying the alcohol and using his store card for the purchase (we're in our 40s and 50s btw). My husband pulled out his ID, but the employee didn't check it and turned to me, condescendingly insisting it was mine they had to see. We still have no idea why the guy wanted my ID, nor why he was so incredibly rude about it. Something is very wrong here. Sounds like customers are a bit of a burden for this store, so we'll be easing that for them by shopping elsewhere from this point forward."

"Check their food expirations. I bought some frozen dumplings and ate HALF the BAG to only find out they were expired by more than a year. Manager response was basically what do you want me to do and offered a refund. Just go to target or whole foods since they don’t sell expired food."

"UPDATE: Just went back to the store and literally saw Lord Voldemort doing ballet on top of a shopping cart. 10/10 pirouette. 4/5 Have lots of good childhood memories & good cheese selection too. People were very kind and lots of parking. They used to have cooler carts in the shape of cars though. Only lost a star for the cars."