Not a Good Place - Anonymous employee Fred Meyer Employee Review

2.0
25 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The customers are typically nice and the environment is clean. There's good music that plays in the background. Never a dull moment, always moving. Even the lowest-paid job pays a bit above minimum wage. Good employee discounts, and good investment vehicles like Kroger stock or 401k's if you want to increase your long-term wealth.

Cons

Can be fired for any reason at any time for frivolous reasons. Co-workers aren't the most trustworthy. They require your fingerprints for employment. They provide very minimal training for your job then will suddenly throw you over the deep-end before you can swim or know what it is you're supposed to do. I can't emphasize this enough, practically no training was offered at all for the job, instead a whole day is wasted on orientation instead of actually preparing you for the actual job you're actually going to do. They're also completely under-staffed, you will consistently work more than you're scheduled to. For example, I was only supposed to stay till 8:00 pm, I stayed until 11 pm. Sadly, this was fairly common and not at all unusual. Some of the equipment doesn't even work and is never upgraded even though it was scheduled to be upgraded a year ago! Obviously, they don't seem to care about their employees' ability to do their job that well. I would not recommend work at this place at all.

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5.0
6 Aug 2025
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Pros

Such a great team to work with! Very patient and willing to teach new skills. Coming from two other retail pharmacies, I think they had the best staffing level making the job so much easier to do with a smile. Schedule was always out 3 weeks at a time, so you knew when you were working and if it needed changing there was time to get someone to cover your shift or make adjustments with the Pharmacy Manager. If I hadn't moved out of state, I'd still be there with bells on!

Cons

Central Fill processing made this complicated. Several large totes of unsorted CF bags that we had to sort and hang up in the appropriate will call bin, took from 10:30am-1:30pm most days which meant many a customer who came in to pick up couldn't receive their medication until we could find it.

3.0
11 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I would say the most important Pros is benefits for all employees and employee's discount.

Cons

Even though it says "flexible hours", it is not really flexible. The pay is not fair. Cashiers in non-food departments get less pay than cashiers in front-end doing the same job. The management is different by the store as well as the work environment and culture.

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