I am writing because I am fed up with Fred Meyer and have been for years. It started five or more years ago with their stupid new rules about having to be 17 or older to buy a CD with Explicit Lyrics. They actually ID you like you're buying cigarettes. Not only that, too frequently have I gone shopping there and been followed by security. One in particular was a couple months ago. The guy followed me down all the isles, nevermind the fact that I spent $300 dollars that night.
Now what pushed me over the edge was yesterday. I found out a while ago that they don't accept hand written checks because of identity theft. Well, I cashed a paycheck there a few days ago for $200. That obviously isn't much so yesterday I talked my boss into giving me a $250 draw. He went out of his way to make me a printed check so I could cash it. Freddy's is the only place to cash a check on a Sunday so I had to give them what they wanted. I go to cash my check and everything seems fine. But the clerk comes back from her computer and says that because I cashed a check a few days ago I couldn't cash another one for a couple of weeks. This ticked me off but I very nicely said how stupid that was. The lady had the nerve to get an attitude and says "Well I'm just following company policy".
Now that doesn't seem bad, but with the other words she said to me I felt like a criminal committing check fraud or something. This is the last straw. I'm sick of them trying to control people, when they're a business, not a government. And their prices on everything they sell is outrageous. I can't believe they get away with charging as much as they do when there's a Safeway across the street.
When I told my mother-in-law what I was doing she wanted me to add that whenever they run an ad in the paper with coupons, it seems as if they understock their sale items because they NEVER have what's on sale. She said this has been going on for 10 years or more. So know this, Fred Meyer in Newberg especially, but also across the Pacific Northwest, is a ripoff and should be boycotted by everyone!
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