Fred Meyer

"I ordered 5 loafs of bread from the bakery yesterday. I picked them up at approximately 6:40 am. I went to self checkout and paid in full. I was walking to the exit when I was stopped by two armed security guards requesting my receipt in order to exit the building. I stated I payed for the items. Expressed shouldn’t be held unless receipt was showed. As I walked away one of the security officers smiled saying have a nice day in an intimated way. That upset me where I became extremely upset. One officer laughed put his right one his gun. I yelled at them . I called a manager and was told customers must show receipt or customer can’t leave the building. That is unlawful imprisonment. I have shopped at the BURIEN Fred Myer since the opened. Not any more."

"We mostly use the grocery pick-up nowadays but it's always a good experience. Thomas is usually working and is friendly and efficient. Great discounts on gas too!"

"This store is as welcoming as a prison. The armed security guards that check your receipt at the gated doors add to the already awful shopping experience. Everything is overpriced, which they can't blame on shoplifting since we are all but strip searched on the way out. It is also not due to inflation. It is nothing more than Kroger's greed, setting prices as high as they can because we have fewer and fewer shopping options and are at their mercy. I do my best to shop anywhere else."

"I understand that shoplifting is way up. This is why you closed the convenient alternate entrances, and had associates in yellow vests posted as "greeters." I cannot however accept having to be inspected by an armed and armored "guard" every time I go shopping. Hard pass."

"Expensive, dirty, and they treat you like a criminal. I have been shopping at the store for over a decade, and I spend a stupid amount of money here. Anywhere you look, there is garbage or it looks like somebody barfed. The shopping carts often have garbage in them. The garbage cans are never not full, which doesn’t even seem possible. There are about 100 Fred Meyer employees roaming around the store, and you quite often have to navigate around them, because they are clogging the aisles, and yet many items are out of stock. I go to the self check out because it is usually faster and also to avoid dealing with their employees if possible. The self checkout has a scale that weighs every individual item that I check, so the computer knows that I’m not stealing anything. Also, they have a video camera watching every move I make. I put in my customer ID number, so that they know it’s me, the same person who has been coming there for more than 10 years and spending ungodly sums of money. Still, the computer will say that I might have not scanned something, even though it is checking by weight and by camera. Then my light has to blink for several minutes until the clerk finally comes over and says, well it looks like you didn’t steal anything, just like the last 500 times the computer asked me to come over here and check. Then, after I’m done checking out, I have to go past the security guard who checks my receipt. He’s not even really looking at anything. It’s not like he would know if I actually stole something. It’s just like it’s an extra way for Fred Meyer to tell their customers, we really don’t like you, and we want to make your experience at this dirty, expensive store, even worse than it already is. Why do I keep shopping here? What is wrong with me?"