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Fred Meyer

Part of Kroger

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3.1

44% would recommend to a friend

(3,611 total reviews)
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Joe Grieshaber

30% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Fred Meyer has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,611 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Fred Meyer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
2.0
Jun 9, 2024

Racing to the bottom

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Pros

Mostly easy work, especially if you have a good team.

Cons

It just feels like the business is slowly rotting. Understaffing and talent-loss seems to have occurred both at the store level and at the offices. Responsibilities keep getting consolidated and everything gets a little sloppier. At my position, I find myself taking on tasks from two full-time positions in the store that just... don't seem to exist anymore. New AI-assisted scheduling system is especially bad. One year our W-2s were all screwed up. People get pulled from other departments (including managers) to fill in for our personal shopper department. Benefits package is a bit worse than it used to be, though this change may have more to do with the insurance companies Fred Meyer uses than any change at Fred Meyer itself. Ten years ago, it felt like a huge publicly-traded retail chain that of course wants to cut costs and boost profits, as is expected. Today, it feel like all of that, but just at an absolute rock bottom that should've resulted in a course-correction (a more tempting hiring package) by now. This might be worse at my particular location, where living costs are high and a lot of folks just can't afford service jobs like this.

1.0
Jun 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The work is hypothetically easy to do.

Cons

The equipment isn't maintained very well. There are constant hour cuts. Most of the work is part-time. The company won't work with your schedule. Customers will treat you like garbage and so will the management. You'll interview and perhaps get hired for one job, but be forced to perform unrelated tasks. Most of the high-turnover jobs we need the most bodies for, pay the lowest wages.

1.0
May 18, 2023

Post covid not a good employer

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Pros

It's a job. Can work 40+ during peak seasons, easy.

Cons

Most employees are Cut down to 20 hours after the new year, until almost summer. Managers are cut throat You are treated like you are replaceable (but they can never find help to replace employees who leave) The pay is awful. Can't pay portland cost of living on paycheck. They have not keep up. Just a few years ago, I could pay for myself, my partner and our child. Now I hardly have enough to pay my half and buy food/transportation. They don't defend employees against increasingly aggressive customers. They preach anti-discrimination but fail to actually follow through. Zero work/life balance. You're lucky to have enough time off to sleep a decent number of hours. But managers always get a fair schedule for themselves. They don't know what it is actually like to be a nonmanagement employee.

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