Fred Meyer

Niesha, from the morning shift, is the most pleasant person I ever met! She’s nice, funny, and knowledgeable. From now on, I’ll be in Niesha’s check out line because she genuinely cares about the customers and their needs. Talk about a good experience and a good all around person. I hope she gets the recognition she deserves for her great service.

Every time I visit this FM I’m reminded that the apocalypse isn’t something looming in the near distant future, but actually happening right now. You don’t even need to go in the store. Just spend a few minutes in the parking lot and you’ll see what I mean.

I live nearby and I shop here probably five times a week. I’ve never had a problem here. The staff seems friendly. They return things easily if something doesn’t work or breaks. They have a decent selection, but they are not as big of a store as the one on Interstate. It is a fine grocery store.

Pros: The cashiers are typically really friendly, never a long wait to checkout, it’s a clean store given it’s age and location. Cons: the parking lot can be a nightmare, there never seems to be enough shopping carts available (at either entrance) — they mostly appear to be stacked up outside somewhere, their organic produce section is weak, as is their meat department.

Love this store! Super friendly and helpful m, with an ever growing health food department. I wouldn’t go anywhere else!

YAY! I love Fred Meyer and love I can get a discount on my gas because I shop there! I am a penny pinching mama so discounts always attract me. The employees are super friendly and nice. What a convience to be able to get my groceries and gas all in one spot. And Woohoo they finally made it to their upgrade and are taking cash now! I am freaking thrilled! DISCOUNT GAS WOOHOO!

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WHY would you have only ONE employee working alone, with 10 pumps… especially during 5 o’clock rush hour??? Seriously, Fred Meyer management obviously has no clue about scheduling/​staffing. I’ve gotten gas here probably 12 – 15 times the past few years and have NEVER had a good customer service experience at this gas station!
I have left comments about it when doing the F.M. online surveys, but have never been contacted and service hasn’t improved.
Today, I actually felt sorry for the young guy who was working, because he was friendly and was probably doing the best that he could with a bad situation. BUT the service was absolutely chaos. Every pump had a customer and some pumps had a line of 2+ cars waiting.
The guy working had absolutely no clue which order cars were in. I was sitting a pump waiting for service, several minutes later two cars pull up on the opposite side of the pump island that I was on and he helped them first. Then, he bypasses me to go over to the opposite side of the station to help 3 other cars, then he came back and finished the two cars on the opposite side of the island that I was on (and then filled up a gas can for one of them). Then, finally, he comes over to help me and the car behind me. SO FRUSTRATING!!! He did apologize to me and the other guy «sorry for the wait» but like I said, I’ve never had a positive experience getting gas here.
If I could rate just the gas station, it would only get 1-​star. But, the actual store has pretty good service, so that’s why my rating is 3-​stars.
*** Previous Review ***
Parking is always such a hassle at this location. And they don’t have all the selections/​items and inventory as the larger FM stores.
They do have a nice garden center here, especially in late spring and summer. And most of these employees in the store are very helpful and friendly.

I have a friend who lives nearby, so I have visited as a casual shopper many times over the years and have always liked this friendly, more compact Fred’s. Now that I live nearby, I can see I’m going to use this Freddie’s branch often. Lots of bus lines run nearby, and the location is on a slower, less-​used part of Lombard. Definitely has a slower pace and definitely not a super-​store atmosphere. There are adequate supplies of everything you need, and they have an excellent housewares section and a nice-​sized garden section. Clerks are friendly and have good customer service ethic. I think the only big drawback here is the parking lot (step carefully pedestrians, it’s a crowded lot and sometimes people want out fast when they’re frustrated) OK, you’ve won me over, and I’ll be a regular.

Most of the employees do their jobs well. I do like having Freddy’s within a mile of my house, but why did it have to be this one.
The limited inventory seems to more often than not, leave me wanting. And I have no explanation for why it is that they are pretty much always out of what I went there for.
This store also has the distinction of having the worst parking lot of all Fred Meyers.

The cashiers are always polite, but heaven forbid you ask someone on the floor a question. The last time I was there I got «I don’t work over there» and then they walked away, and the second person stared at me like I had three heads until I just gave up. I’ve been working in grocery retail management for 10 years and this shit is not okay. Had they been my employees I would have had a SERIOUS CHAT with ‘em. Like, «dude I know you make $ 9.50 an hour but try not to be a dick, okay?»
Sheesh.

Folks here are friendly and relatively helpful. Not fancy grocery store helpul. But helpful enough. You often do have to look hard to find help around the hardware/​key area. They have some great discount meat and bread items daily. It’s a smaller store — not much in the way of lawn furniture. But seriously, who buys lawn furniture at FM — or any other «household» item? They are crazy overpriced for that. But groceries aren’t too bad, cheaper than safeway and spendier than Grocery Outlet.

I’ve been going to this location for years. I live within blocks of this store and I’m really glad to be so close. The staff is the best! I’ve never once had a staff member in any department treat me poorly-​they don’t even let on that they might be having a bad day. I’ve worked in customer service so to me this is really impressive! I interact with grumpy sales people in all kinds of other places (like Macy’s, the Post Office… but not here, so that rocks).
The produce selection and quality is good (better than Safeway and Trader Joe’s).
I’m so grateful for their natural food & products section. They have cage-​free eggs, local & organic dairy products, pthalate/​paraben/​sulfate free beauty products, and vegan options as well.
Ever since Fred Meyer’s recent tv campaigns (you may have seen the tv commercials insisting you will never have to wait in line) I actually have not had to wait in line for long at all. There are people just standing around directing you to which line has the least wait time.
Oh, and they DO have socks there (both basic men & women’s socks). If you don’t see them ask someone who works there to help you find them.
So yeah… too many negative people bashing this place for silly reasons.

Really excited about this new location for a gas station in the North. I would recommend stopping by here and fueling up for many reasons. The staff is friendly, there is plenty of space, easy access and exits. The prices are on the cheaper side and competitive. You can also kill two birds with one stone, groceries and gas.

Produce is fresh and staff is okay. The parking lot does get full quick with cars but not an issue for bicyclist; I always space to lock bikes on their racks.
If you need basic grocery items, it’s an okay one to shop at. A Lot calmer than the Freddie’s by Lombard MAX Sta.

I’ve got mixed feelings about this Freddy’s, and yet I seem to be in here all the time. Chock it up to a much better beer and produce selection than Safeway, overall decent prices on groceries, and really great people working here (big emphasis on the last point).
Now, my beefs with this store– shopping here would be a lot easier if the parking lot wasn’t a poorly designed nightmare. The meat selection is lame. I’ve found dairy products past their expiration date on the shelf many, many times; so now I always triple check those items, or just buy them elsewhere.
Not an issue for me personally, but you might want to know– they don’t sell clothing, so forget about buying that 18 pack of tube socks you needed; and toiletry items /​over the counter meds are usually pretty overpriced unless what you need is on sale.

I bought my bed here!
Having recently moved to town with only as much stuff as could fit in my tiny car, I needed a bed immediately. Happened to drive by this Freddy’s, which as it conveniently turns out, is only 4 minutes from my house, and popped in on the off chance they sold beds. In fact they only sell one brand of memory foam mattress, but it’s perfect for me. I didn’t want a bed frame in any case and the mattress is comfortable on my floor. Luckily, the mattresses were on sale that day, otherwise they’re a bit cost prohibitive. So I bought household stuff, groceries, and a mattress that was squeezed and rolled into a rather small box, loaded it up, and brought it home. Easy peasy.
Since then I’ve come here often for groceries and other necessities, and it pretty much does the job. The store is a bit utilitarian and the neighborhood is on the poorer side so it’s not a joy to shop here, but the selection is fairly comprehensive.
Depending on your luck, the return line can be super long on a Tuesday and surprisingly empty on a Saturday.

The store that’s had more face-​lifts than Heidi Montag and Joan Rivers. Combined!
Been shopping at this particular store since I was a wee lad in the 70s. Delighted to see a few adjacent businesses still a part of the complex (same laundromat, same salon). Most of it has changed or gone, of course (locksmith’s shack, Eve’s buffet, cobbler’s, and the fro-​gurt shoppe– bring back the fro-​gurt!).
Reading the other Unilocaler comments: yes, Kroger acquired Freddy’s about 10 years ago. From a cosmetic and operational standpoint, that changed very little, though several stores (Interstate, Hawthorne) are on steroids and just.keep.growing! Yes, the newfangled parking @ the Ida store really is clunky and not user friendly at all. Some of this is inescapable, as they are federally mandated to keep ‘x’ number of the closest spaces reserved for handicap parking. The largest section of parking remains the big lot facing Willamette Blvd. But unless they install valet service you’re gonna be in for a little bit of a walk from there. Which only sucks about 10 months out of the year; this is Oregon, it’s gonna rain. Don’t like it? Go back to Cali…
As to the guy who mentioned the separate garden center building. That was actually the Interstate store. And they DID sell clothes @ Ida for a very long time, but they had notoriously bad/​out-​dated/​off-​brand/​and way over-​priced selections! Sometimes change is GOOD. You’re not missin’ a thing…
It’s tough, if not outright impossible to imagine St. John’s w/​o Freddie’s on Lombard & Ida. Thanks for all the memories, and for continuing to sell both fishing tackle and licenses! For all those times I’m a-​wishin’ I was fishin’…

Who in the hell designed the parking lot? The only time that is a 4 star experience shopping here is right when it turns cold and your on your bike and it’s 9 am on a thursday.
They have a decent organic section that is more expensive than whole foods. The meat section SUCKS. The aisle beer bacon cheese is an ongoing joke. They have a redbox and self checkout that confuses the patrons as much as the debit card they were issued.
I understand the roots, but Portland and your anti chain-​ness beware, this place is owned by a company as evil as walmart… yeah, i said it,
stop being all high and mighty, It’s not local at all. Not anymore.
I can ride my bike here, it’s less insane than the interstate location. Where else in St Johns can you rent a movie, buy motor oil, get a recliner, buy a tv, and get your beer fix.
That place is illegal, so go here and don’t get shot by the cops.

There is a woman on her cell phone, «Why the F*** didn’t you pick up your God DAMN MOTHER F***ING cell phone! I have been CALLING AND CALLING YOUR ASS ALL MOTHER F***ING MORNING YOU MOTHER F***ER!»
I am trying not to stare, or snicker. Instead I am throwing 5 for $ 5 Santa Cruz Ice Tea and Lemonade’s into my cart, next to the 3 for $ 5 whole wheat Ego Waffles and the 2 for $ 6 Julia’s Organic Ice Creams.
Following me around the store, we must have had the same shopping list, or were both drawn in by the orange fliers telling us the buy more save more deals. Her voice kept up popping up, «What DO YOU MEAN YOU WERE OUT, YOU MOTHER F***ER!!»
I found a stuffing-​less dog squeaky toy, and a new rubber doggie bouncy ball, filled my cart to the overflowing point with veggies, cereal, juice and ice tea, coffee (Seattle’s Best was buy one get one free), my organic dairy needs, three bags of Kettle Chips (two bags of BBQ and one bag of Spicy Thai) and much much more for $ 102. I feel good about a week’s worth of groceries for a hundred bucks. And the entertainment was free.

It’s March. It’s raining. Raining hard for Portland. I’ve got a new victory garden that needs that extra kick only steer manure can provide, but I seem to be fresh out of my own steers. To the nearest Fred Meyer!
To wait outside! In the rain, in a cage in the parking lot, waiting for the promised cage attendant to appear so I can buy a bag of shit. And we wait, and wait, and wait. Soaked through.
Companion goes back inside and shakes fist and yells, or whatever it is boys do in these kinds of situations. I know what I do in these kinds of situations. I don’t take this shit — I take *that* shit.
When companion returns, I’ve got the motor running, with 6 bags of steer manure in the back of the truck. To victory!