Fred Meyer

I come here often, most of the time this location is the safest feeling one in the area. They also at this location often times have the lowest prices on fuel. My favorite thing about this location is the toy department as they have just about anything you can imagine…

First Fred Meyer I’ve ever been to (I’m from SoCal) and I LOVE IT! This place has everything, and there always seems to be pretty good coupons in the weekly ad.

The workers are friendly enough and it is easy to just stop by here. The deli and bakery in here are pretty pathetic though. I used to get deli food from here but it got progressively worse so I don’t anymore. Last time I was in, I though a donut sounded good, but I should have known better. When I got it home it had curdled cream in it, and was obviously a day or more old.

Jesus take the wheel! I had to tell myself «Please Jesus! Take the wheel!»
I had a $ 50 Fred Meyer gift card that I wanted to use. So I purchased the item at a nearby Fred Meyer location with the $ 50 gift card and cash but after leaving I realized that the very same item I just had purchased was cheaper at another retailer so what I should have done was go back to the original location and get the price adjustment but instead I stopped by this location since I was already near it. Could of… would of… saved myself some BS.
I reviewed Fred Meyer’s price match policy that was listed online at
This is when I needed Jesus Christ to take the wheel because the associate at customer service tried to play stupid. She almost made me take out my «serving arm» but Jesus Christ did take the wheel. She’s just lucky that a Seahawk’s win today put me in a good mood because she was testing my faith.
I approached customer service and explained that I wanted to price match a recently purchased item. The associate at the counter tells me that Fred Meyer does not price match.
How are you going to tell me that Fred Meyer does not price match but when I showed the price match policy from
on my smart phone you then proceed tell me «oh that’s not our site»
Sooo YOU DID KNOW that Fred Meyer has a price match policy because you don’t recognize the Fred Meyer’s website that I showed to your face but a moment ago you told me that Fred Meyer does not price match. All of a sudden huh?!
I told the associate yes Fred Meyer does price match other retailers. Maybe not the online prices from Amazon or NewEgg but a local retailer competitor that is located within 25miles of this Fred Meyer location.
So I bust out my big ol’ iPhone 6 Plus that has a 5.5-inch high definition screen display in 1080p with crystal clear clarity! I showed the associate the Fred Meyer price matching policy. My iPhone 6 Plus is so big even people without «eagle eyes» can see that sh*t from a distance on my screen. So it wasn’t hard to see the legit Fred Meyer website and price ad policy & rules.
She then tells me that they do not price match online prices. Oh Mary mother of Jesus Christ this woman wants to fight me! I was like «Come at me bro» so I read out loud (slowly of course). According to Fred Meyer’s policy
«The best way to show proof of a lower price is to bring in the competitor’s current ad or display the competitor’s current print ad on your electronic device (e.g. your Smart Phone).»
BOOM! COME AT ME BRO! So she tells me that it’ll be up to the associate in the electronics’s department to decide. Sweeet baby Jesus! Okay, fine!
The customer service associate and the associate in the electronics are both in cahoots with each other because the moment I left customer service she was on the phone talking sh*t about me to the electronics associate. People don’t like to be proven when they are wrong and she was shown in black & white that I caught her slippin. The associate in electronics started flapping his gums about not being able to take the item back and sell it to me at the price match price. Well, I didn’t get the adjustment at this location. I had to go back to the original location and have it done there.
In the end I should have just gone to the original location in the first place and not be hassled over chump change.
I like Fred Meyer. I try to make Fred Meyer my first stop in my shopping needs but I’m not stupid enough to pay the higher price. Yes, I would have gone to another retailer to buy the same item but I had a gift card that I wanted to use.
Should I have asked for the manager? Maybe but generally the best associates are at customer service. This associate was lacking in customer service and store policy. Asking for a manager probably would have resulted in the same results. None.

The entire crew at this branch is friendly. I can come here for everything and am always greeted with a smile and a friendly «can I help you find anything? Throughout the store. All of the cashiers are a pleasure, I never feel like it’s a game of roulette to pick my clerk.

Update– They listened to complaints and made a very swift change to training their staff, and things have significantly improved. Thank you!

There’s only so much you can say about the differences from one FM to the next. This isn’t one that I hit up every week for groceries or anything like that, so I can’t comment on consistency over time or any other wisdom that comes with regular experience. But I have run small errands here a few times when I am back in town visiting friends and family, and yesterday I got a full whack of groceries for my mom. This store really made it easy to get all the stuff she needed.
First of all, the parking lot here is always busy. Even without stopping in, it’s easy to see that – it’s on a busy intersection, and there’s a good chance I’ll drive by here from time to time on my trips to T-​Town. They’re never slow. Yesterday was no exception; I was lucky to get a decent parking place. There are tons of different departments here, like any FM. This one seems to have one of everything that the whole chain sells, but I was only in for groceries.
What’s nice about grocery shopping here is that all the packaged goods are set off in latitudinal aisles, and you know if you need something in a box or a can you will steer that way. All the fresh produce, meat, seafood, and so on gets its own wide section at the end. It’s not like they stock super-​premium stuff, and their organic section is small, but they turn that old maxim on its head: «to eat healthfully, shop around the perimeter of the store, rather than in the aisles.» At this store, they hit you with nice produce displays right up front, and you almost feel like you can do all your shopping from displays of fresh stuff. I really, really dig that. Of course, it also kinda means that their fresh displays fit into a smaller square footage, but the quality is decent, and the prices are pretty amazing compared to premium supermarkets.
The staff here are nice enough, and very helpful. They checked stuff for me and answered questions easily without having to look up anything. I got my mom four decent-​sized bags of groceries for under $ 40. I do have to add that I went to high school right across the street, and occasionally we would sneak over here to get pops and snacks during the day (but usually after school). That was a long time ago, and the store has been seriously remodeled since then (as well it should have been, in all that time), but it looked like they still had the bakery firing out bagels in the grocery section. That always struck me as an odd specialty for a chain grocery store bakery department to develop, and even odder that they still had them years later. Maybe next time my mom needs groceries I will check them out to see if they’re as good as I remember.

You’re typical Fred Meyer’s store here, nice location though, as its easy to get in and out of the parking lot here, along 19^th street– This Fred Meyers, like the others have for the most part pretty good prices, although you have to now what you normally pay for something as some things of course are higher priced.
The customer service here is excellent, so overall, a very nice Freddys with courteous and prompt employees, I would most certainly recommend this place!

Got a gift card was excited until I stepped in the place. prices were so inflated I spent most of the card buying Christmas candy cause I couldn’t afford anything else.

Just got a flu shot and was full of questions about it as well as a shingles vaccine. I was expecting to get educated about both further so I could have a better understanding. Instead I received curt answers and was immediately told I was too young to have the shingles vaccine with no immediate explanation why I couldn’t or shouldn’t have it despite battling shingles for the last three years. A former doctor from the previous state I lived in even advised me to get the vaccine.
Eventually this pharmacist got around to telling me that the vaccine was a live virus. I was left to infer that it might cause another bout of shingles for me. I find it interesting that the healthcare industry gives lip service about wanting patients to get more involved in their healthcare prevention yet I was met smugness and abrupt answers. Definitely disappointed.

Very dingy inside. Everyone who works at this location is rude, with the exception of one or two people. The deli is the worst! There is one woman in particular who is just awful to every single customer she speaks to no matter what. I actually drive out of my way to shop at the Fred Meyer on River Rd. in downtown Puyallup now. Its cleaner, brighter, and the people are so much more friendly. Plus they have a lot more items to chose from, as the store is much larger.

Extremely rude customer service in self check out. If you don’t like your job give it to people who need it. Manager was no help what so ever. I’m just tired of the bad customer service. This is honestly the worst Fred Meyers I have ever been to I’m never shopping here again and am telling everyone how much this place sucks!

I’m from California, where we don’t have Fred Meyer stores. This place reminded me of Walmart, but nicer. I mean that they have a little bit of everything. Need to paint a room of your house? Need to plant a garden? Need a ladder or some tools? Need to outfit yourself or your family? Need fresh produce, baked goods or other grocery items? Fred Meyer has it.
Inside this store is also a Fred Meyer Jewelers, a Starbucks Coffee, a Chase Bank, an eyeglass/​vision store, and some other things I’ve forgotten. There was a playroom you could deposit your kids in — it was playing a Disney movie, and I didn’t see any adults there supervising, but all the kids were paying rapt attention to the video.
This is a very large store and has a large variety of products for sale. Parking was easy and there were a lot of handicap spaces, though most all were taken when we arrived. If I had a Fred Meyer near me, I could see myself shopping there often.

This is the larger of the two Fred Meyer supermarkets in the Tacoma/​University Place area. There is a third, better, and more modern Fred Meyer in Lakewood. This Fred Meyer has a large clothing/​furniture/​housewares section; the other Tacoma Fred Meyer is food-​only.
This Fred Meyer is a dingy, older building. It needs a bit of sprucing up, and that seems to carry over into the quality of goods and services inside.
Meat Department: The meat department here is troubling. I’ve had specific incidents where rancid meat was packaged beneath a layer of fresh meat. Generally, though, the quality of meat here is lacking. The fish section, in particular, always smells, making me believe that it is not clean. The beef and pork, also, though, appear to consist of disappointing cuts of lower quality meat.
Produce: The produce department here is acceptable, and is what brings this up from a one star review. I would not say that it is a standout produce section, but it does have a decent amount of prepared fruits, and a fair selection of organic produce.
Generally, now, the only reason I shop at this Fred Meyer is that it has goods that would not be sold at Tacoma Boys or Thrifway, and that I would not wait to get from Amazon. In other words, the only things I tend to buy here are things like dog food and ziploc bags. For me, the produce and meat departments here steer me away from this location.

This store is great. It has a coffee shop, natural foods section, pharmacy, optometrists, children’s play area, excellent staff, and great selection of hot and cold foods, clothing, supplies, and more. it’s a great one stop shop not too far from the Cheney Stadium. The location is a perfect spot for people living in between North and South Tacoma, Fircrest, and University Place. There’s even a park and walking trail near the back, next to the garden center, where I see people walk their dogs all the time. Close enough to the Tacoma Nature Center if you ever wanted to refuel in between nature walks and bird watching. Even the high school students and staff love to go to Fred Meyer for a quick lunch, snack or coffee. This is a great spot for a lot of people.

BAKERY review — omg this is The BEST bakery. I would love to give this award to a homegrown place but sorry, I have never been disappointed with birthday cakes here. My latest birthday cake was a tres leches vanilla choco & everybody loved it! They also have a death by choco cake that you can get by the slice and yum. .you will go to heaven. They do kids cakes with characters and will customize according to what you want (colors, flavors, etc). Prices are super reasonable and they have a great variety of other awesome sweet treats. Just try, you will come back.

This Fred Meyer is okay. It is laid out a little weird, but you get used to it. It’s just not as new, no big deal. The parking lot is really awkward, too. Not my favorite Freddy’s, but it works!

Not as nice and friendly as my local Fred Meyer’s but it works just the same.
Nothing to boast about and really nothing much to complain about.
This location does have gas and the whole «super store» availability unlike the smaller locale down the street.
Starbucks located inside as well and ample parking.

Standard Fred Meyer. This is a «super store», which means they have the furniture, crafts, sporting goods, paint, clothes, etc.
Main thing to note: One of the most consistently rude pharmacies I’ve ever been to. The other Fred Meyer on 19^th, about a mile West, is food only with a pharmacy and they are much better there. Really. AVOID THIS PHARMACY!
Great customer service in every other area of the store. Meat department doesn’t have the best variety or quality.

The World According to Noelle
Allergic Girl’s Guide to Life
We forgot the shampoo, conditioner and body wash that I purchased from Whole Foods in Cupertino, California. While in Tacoma, we decided to stop at this Fred Meyer store. It was crowded and resembled a down trodden Waltmart. We were able to get our essentials– shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. Customer service is almost non-​existent. Good thing they have self-​check out which made our trip a quick one.
Noelle’s Notes
Find a Target :)