Fred Meyer reviews

It is only a job - unless you want to give up your family to get ahead. Once a store level employee; always a store level employee. Much of upper management made it to where they are, not based on their education (many of which have little more than HS diplomas) but on their ability to survive management bootcamp (years of odd hours, odd requests, and basically indentured servitude). And it is now doubly worse since Kroger has fully taken over.

Corporate only promotes based on whether the book, however wrong it may be. It is mandatory that the department manager posts the schedule at 5 pm on Thursday--no sooner, no later. Stores are drastically under-staffed, while corporate (Portland) refuses to hear excuses as to why something wasn't accomplished. It is normal to receive a phone call during any time of the night when someone calls in sick, or if something went wrong. They expect you to be available at any time. Virtually no one within the stores is happy with their job. Turnover is very high, especially in store management.