Fred Meyer One Stop Shopping

I do most of my grocery shopping here. Probably 90% of what I buy there is in the beautiful produce section and natural foods department. Lovely, fresh produce and a great selection of organic fruits and vegetables. The natural foods section is amazing! Lots of specialty food ingredients that I use regularly. Great selection in the bulk foods section.
As for the rest of the store, they carry a pretty good selection of toys, kitchen gadgets, clothing, garden plants, etc.
The only complaint I have is the parking lot layout. It’s horrible, poorly planned and built. I was hoping they would fix it when the store was remodeled and expanded, but they managed to make it worse.

Like most Fred Meyers, they had a great selection of all sorts of items. A bit smaller than suburban Fred Meyers closer to Portland, but still good!
While the downstairs grocery section was bustling, the rest of the store was empty and quiet except for the country music. Over in the household supply section, many items were covered in a thin layer of dust. They were out of ice, and it took a while to track down an employee to get more.
Overall, A-​OK!

Nice to have in The Dalles but I wish it were bigger. Good grocery section, other sections not bad.
One big negative; whoever designed this put only one TINY bathroom for an extremely busy Fred Meyer – it’s always crowded & very smelly.

They now have a small little kosher section on the end of the ethnic isle. Yes, it very limited, but hey… they now have matzoh crackers. How about some falafel mix next?

There are TWO Red Box. One at each entry. I feel like a lot of people don’t know this.
This FM is always so busy! I wish there was another FM on the other side of town. Not because anything is wrong with this one, but TD needs more than one FM. With that being said, they handle the constant business well here. They always have things stocked well and they always have the appropriate amount of checkout lines open. No complaints. It is your basic FM and it serves its purpose. I am glad there is a clothing and shoe department up stairs. I am told that has not been there long… it’s nice to have because shopping in TD is pretty limited.

Good variety of items! I really like their home and electronics section — I’m never disappointed!!!

This is probably the busiest place in The Dalles.
I have lived here for over a decade now and I still can’t believe at how busy this Freddy’s gets. There are quite a few days when you cannot find a single place to park in any lot on either side of the building. I tried to go there last weekend to buy a couple of things and I had to park in the McDonald’s lot next door, along with about 10 other people.
The staff at this location is usually pretty good and helpful. I have gone early in the morning and taken in $ 25 worth of cans and they let me cash all of the tickets, even though the maximum is supposed to be like $ 7.
There is definitely a lack of retail shopping in The Dalles considering how many people from all over the region come here to buy things. K-​Mart, Bi-​Mart, Fred Meyer and now Coastal are about it for non-​grocery items. Even for groceries, it is Freddy’s, Safeway and Grocery Outlet. I am not a big fan of Wal-​Mart, but I will be happy if they build one here so I can find a place to park at Fred Meyer. I would prefer a Costco, but I don’t think that will happen.

The people who work here are not morning people. We stopped in here at around 8:40 in the morning. We were fat and sassy from Cousin’s and looking for our water supply for the car ride to Montana.
There were a handful of people in this small Fred Meyer’s. Not one of them looked up or said anything to us, that was fine until we said good morning to two of the women and they just looked at us, I don’t mean we whispered it from isle 3 while they were in isle12. We were standing right there in front of them and nothing, crickets.
I got my water, got in line, and not one word from the checker, even though I asked how her morning was. Holy kittens of fire people, have some coffee, grab a cinnamon roll from Cousin’s and shake outta that mood.

Deli items were delicious.

Great selection with decent prices.