Fred Meyer

Good prices, clean store. I always shop there. It is a neighborhood store close to where I live.

I’m giving 1 star because you can’t give zero! So many times i have been in and felt like I’m ruining the day of the employee. They are Disgruntled, unfriendly and clearly don’t want to be there.
If you need help, i.e. the fish counter, good luck. I feeL Like an asshole trying to buy $ 20. 00 Of fish.
In response to some of the other reviews, it’s not even the clientele that sets me off (everybody needs groceries) It’s the workers themselves. Whoever is running this location, grow a pair, let people go, keep the good ones and hire people that want to work!
I would like to continue to support my local store rather than drive to other neighborhoods but for Christ sakes TAKE SOME PRIDE!

A quick stop in for something I didn’t find that another Fred Meyer and it was in stock here so excellent four stars from me today

This review is about the jewelers at Fred Meyer. Great service. Went in to get my wedding ring sized. They said they would have it back in five days. They had it back in less than 24 hours. Not sure if they were slow, but I’m happy. Got the ring. Fits great, and they polished it up for me. Great job.

Seems like this has been one of the smaller Freddies locations… but to me, it seems to be upgrading lately. A few weeks ago they started handing out fliers, asking for new employees. I’m starting to see a few new faces. Produce and Sea Food depts seems to be better and the garden dept is cool at this store too.
Take a look, I think this store is pickin’ up.

Am I giving this Fred Meyers 1 star because of it’s ghetto-​ass locale? No. Could it be that the parking here is un-​navigable? Nope. Crooked signs (I’M LOOKING AT YOU DAIRY AISLE)? Couldn’t care less.
This Freddies gets one star because they’ve decided to keep condoms behind a locked case. So, you get the wonderful opportunity of calling over a clerk (usually some teenage snot) to open the case and watch you pull out a box of Trojan Magnums and judge you for being such a ho-​bag. Joking aside, way to turn a «none-​of-​your-​damn-​business» ordeal in to a «guess-what-I’m-doing» ordeal.
Are you really afraid of shoplifters stealing condoms? Christ! We should be so lucky that some scumbag who steals doesn’t want to spawn. Let them get stolen. Who cares?! How easy would it be to just write off that lost product in the name of human-​kind and decency?! Who runs this Fred Meyers? The Catholic Church?!
C’mon Mr. Meyers (or whoever owns this crack-​den of a grocery store)! Unsheathe your condoms! Don’t make me have to call one of your peeps over to be peepin’! Don’t make my wife stand their awkwardly wondering if having a baby would be so bad as to spare the embarrassment of announcing to the world that she’s gonna bang the shit out of me later. Be cool, man.
Until then: One star. Lost customer (s). More ghetto-​trash babies. Your fault.

I don’t care about the faces of meth shopping at this store. Anyone who lives in this neighborhood knows that is part of the landscape. What really bothers me is the level of mediocrity the management strives for. There really is no comparison between this store and the Johnson Creek FM. The quality, cleanliness and organization at Johnson Creek is far superior. Anyone with eyes can see it.

Ugh, this place…
Yes, it’s on 82^nd which seems to make a lot of places seem a little grimmer, but you know what? The Fred Meyer on Johnson Creek is ALSO on 82^nd and that Fred Meyer is AWESOME! Certainly in comparison to this Fred Meyer.
Everything about shopping at this Fred Meyer is 2^nd rate:
1) The parking situation always sucks. The only way to get into the store is on the north or south of the building and that is where there is the least amount of parking which ALWAYS causes gridlock, regardless of the time of day
2) The staff are apathetic and rude. Having a pleasant exchange with an employee at this location is rare indeed
3) The presentation of the store is always a little dingy. It isn’t gross, but it isn’t up to par with other FM locations
4) All of 82^nd Streets lowlifes shop at this FM location. I once say a guy getting… friendly with a prostitute in the parking lot. NO… LIE…
I can’t get myself to give the 1 star this place probably deserves because I still shop here all of the time so apparently it can’t be thaaaaat bad. Nevertheless, it’s the worst Fred Meyer that I know of in the Portland area and I greatly hope it gets refurbished sooner rather than later.

Been shopping at this store on a weekly basis for about ten years. For the record, I’m a married, normal mom with a graduate degree. My husband and I have all our teeth, clean livers and a household income in the six figures. The criticisms about this store being Meth Central is a little unfair, but it is a dicier area at the juncture of two major thoroughfares in SE Portland: yes, a small percentage of the store’s clientele might sell their plasma and have a drug dealer’s number in their Cricket flip-​phone, but it’s SE Portland. You’re gonna find the same caliber of customers at any store on 82^nd, right?
But you know who else shops here? Normal people! Families. Retired people. Asians. Gay people. That guy. That lady. Me. Maybe you. The clerks are nice (Sammiie is the best, look for her) and the produce manager is a stone-​cold fresh fruit guru.
If you’re looking for a nice, smaller neighborhood store, this might be it. Don’t let the prigs on this site tell you that the Fred Meyer at Johnson Creek is better. They have scary people there, too. Believe me. I’ve seen them.

Raw chicken from their roaster. After I had a similar problem at the Johnson Creek location, I went there. They «tested» it, and took it home. We cut into it, and it was all red.
They would not take a return over the phone, as I didn’t want to drive there a third time after the second raw chicken.

They’d be better off cutting this Fred Meyer loose and just rolling with the one on Johnson Creek which is a pretty short distance down 82^nd. I am honestly not sure why they haven’t yet. This store is visually ugly, and it’s tiny, 82^nd and Foster doesn’t exactly attract the best crowd, either. A guy at the pop bottle return machine was threatening another guy with a hammer one day. Just another day…

I won’t step foot in any fred Meyer Store again! After almost being assaulted at their store by a thug and the checkers didn’t do anything tonight; not to mention the tweakers, pan handlers & drug dealers hitting me up for change and wanting to sell me drugs and the generally rude staff! I refuse to shop at a store that puts the safety of their customers second! I will be shopping at Costco and Winco from here on out!

There’s another Fred Meyer about two miles south from this one. Your chances of getting shot or offered meth are slashed in half. Definitely go the ‘extra mile’ to save yourself.

I call this Fred Meyer «Meth Meyer’s» because you’re bound to see somebody tweaking out whilst grocery shopping.
On a diff note, they don’t always have what I need here and the cashiers here are slower than all other Fred Meyers I’ve been to. particularly the registers on the SE end.
Good god, spare yourself and go to the Happy Valley location.

I really wanted to give a negative rating based on the service i received from the gentleman in tge deli today! I requested a sandwich made a certain way, the same sandwich i have made day in and day out. The gentleman today told me in fact no i can not have my sandwich made this way. I in protest explained i do this every day. He at this time says «ok I’ll do it this time only «. When i got back to work i noticed the sandwich was prepared with much insult! Everthing that could be wrong was. It was as if he looked at my order slip and deliberately put the opposite of everything i requested.
I returned to the deli and spoke with a manager i believer her name might have been Heléna. This is where my experience takes a turn for the better. I showed my sandwich to her and explained what was wrong. She at that point did not wate time or hesitate, she quickly offered a full refund, and a replacement sandwich.
I do want to say however that i am still somewhat reluctant to return in fear of having to request a manager to get my order correct. I will see what the future holds…
Ps.
Tge sandwich Heléna made was quite possibly the best sandwich ive ever had!

Our family is a fan of Fred Meyer in genral, but if you can avoid this location you will reduce future frustration of having to deal with this store.
Every time I go its a frustration so I have been trying to go to different locations. Every item you need is spread out and hard to find. All the service is is slow and employees have lack of knowledge. Know one ever knows what isle to find things in.
There is always two people standing up front by register and im sure they have been instructed to so sonething, but they just stand right in the way and talk. The big thing I notice is how much customers are ignored and are kind of an after thought. I witnessed a cashier yell at a customer for a long time. Granted he was a jerk, but she would not stop or let it go. The manager just let it happen. No command over the employees whenever. I go to the fish counter at 6:00 or 7:00 pm on week days and there is no one there and I wait 10 minutes to get help. When a manger finally comes over and says everyone is on dinner break. who controls the scheduling there and has people leave when its dinner time and they are busy. Then when I finally get the check out the cashiers are seriously checked out. They are slow mis scan item, dont know the codes to produce and over charge for items. You got watch what they are doing. They will ring me up for 4 of something when I bought 2. Forget to put purchased items in bags for me and then I I realize and have to go back. It just takes way too long to shop there and the cashiers are talking to other cashiers when cashing me out which makes them Take longer to check me Out. They can’t even hand me receipt and talk at the same time. They move with no urgency and seem to forget that customers are busy and may have to work, take care of kids, run other errands or jus don’t want spend an hour in the grocery store after being at work all day. Their organic section is sparse and is spendy. Least favorite grocery store in all of the land.

I used to work at this Fred Meyer, back in ’99. This store has come a LONG way. The bottle return and grocery entrance area need a major renovation, but you will find a half way decent natural food section (also needing major improvement), and gluten free area. I just hope that Fred Meyer Corp doesn’t ignore this store with huge potential in a burgeoning neighborhood.

I have to give this dump an extra star just bc of all the Portlandia-​esque bs comments on here. I’m no longer living in OR but visit all the time. EVERYONE knows how shitty 82^nd is. People actually want to bitch about how the organic section sucks on 82^nd when the competition is WalMart and Plaid Pantry? If you saved so much money on buying a house near 82^nd, then use the extra change to drive or bike to 65^th and Glisan and quit being so stupid. Of course it’s going to suck. 82^nd is where Portland ends and reality begins.

Like it or not, here I come!
A few short blocks from my home is this Kroger’s incarnation. It is glaringly obvious that this store isn’t set up for the typical Portland experience. There are limited organic produce with a meager natural foods section. The dairy options lean towards the conventional with a few refined options.
The perks here (for me) are friendly service and proximity to my home. Added bonus for people watching and bargain hunting. Oh, there wine selection is not as bad as I expected. I get some decent local grape shwill for under $ 10.
All things considered this is a decent department store. I can get my basic needs met here, and travel farther for the fancy smancy stuff.

I owe this Fred Meyer an updated review.
They finally ended the farce. This is now technically one-​stop shopping again. The second building is now a Fred Meyer Red Tag Sale store, which supposedly offers end-​lots and other discounted merchandise.
Needless to say, despite my one-​star initial review, I’ve returned to this FM location numerous times out of sheer convenience. Unfortunately, 82^nd is devoid of any place to get any semblance of natural, organic, or healthy food. The options are Food 4 Less, Safeway, etc, which are all bereft of wholesome, unprocessed, non-​gmo, hormone-​free, or pesticide free foods. Therefore the FM, and it’s «Naturals» section can be my saving grace when I just need a few quick items.
Going to this Fred Meyer might as well be «Demographics 101» for Mr. Don B. It helps to explain WHY there are no places to get healthy food anywhere north of Johnson Creek on 82^nd. It turns out the primary demographic patronizing this Freddy’s is, well, let’s just say, SCARY. No… SKETCHY. Yeah. That’s the word.
So it’s no wonder I can’t find things that are staples at other FM’s (like the Glisan/​60^th and Hawthorne/​39^th locations). Organic brown rice? Nope. Organic ANY rice? Newp. King Harvest… anything? Naw. An organic yellow onion? No… oh, wait. There are 5 hidden in the cooler section (so few people buy organic at this store that yes, they keep it in the cooler so it takes longer to go bad). Hemp milk? YES! FUCK YES! Whew. I get breakfast tomorrow!
As I shake my head in disbelief at the lack of any substantial natural offerings, I begin to look around and soak in the scene. This is not your average New Seasons, or even your average, say, Johnson Creek Fred Meyer crowd. No, this is the ESSENCE of deep SE 82^nd Ave (aka the Avenue of the Roses). You know how you have «Almond Extract» and «Vanilla Extract» in your spice rack? The folks in this Fred Meyer are «82^nd Ave Extract,» and true to form, many of them are suspended in an alcohol solution.
Granted, I live mighty close to 82^nd (actually inside the boundaries of the famed former «prostitution free zone»), so I need to be careful how much trash I talk… about the trash in the Fred Meyer. So I’ll leave it at this.
The 82^nd Ave demographic isn’t my demographic, and this Fred Meyer knows it. Can I blame them for not stocking items that they are unlikely to sell anyway?
Sure. Fuck it. Why not?
And honestly, if this is the crowd inside the Fred Meyer, I shudder to think who’s across the street digging through the bargain bins. Ew.