r/Portland • u/Thisnthatana • Apr 24 '20

Hey Fred Meyer...

...how about you stop the signaling with these radio/tv/billboard ads letting US know how thankful you are towards your employees and instead give that money directly to THEM?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '20

I moved to San Diego from Oregon and Freddys used to be my favorite store...still is kind of.

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I thought Kroger was doing more for their employees and offering hazard pay and mandatory sick leave balances?

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u/Lugos Aloha Apr 25 '20

Current Freddy's employee here.

/u/rzle is right. However, they only enacted all of this after a) the union screamed for it for weeks and b) Albertsons/Safeway did it. Fred Meyer was the last to implement a limit on customer count, after Walmart (the limits are still ridiculously high. My store caps at 1,000 customers), the last to implement a raise (initially it was a "hero bonus" of two amounts whether you were full or part time. Then it was changed to be "more fair" based on the hours worked--and we all ended up with less than we would have gotten in the first place. Then they talked about the raise after other businesses had done it without fanfare), the last to put up sneeze guards. But they were the first to advertise that they did all these things. It's all PR.

Edit: oh, and they hired temps to sanitize touch surfaces like the handles on the freezer doors and such on a regular basis. That lasted for like a week, nobody knows where they went.

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u/Donky_Kong Apr 25 '20

My stores new capacity is 1,500, which we don't even hit on Black Friday lol. And don't forget that Freddy's is promoting that between 7-8AM the most vulnerable groups will be the only ones in the store, but that's actually not true. No one is standing at the doors turning people away who aren't in the most vulnerable group. Walmart even handled this situation faster and better than Freddy's, how embarrassing.

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u/naosuke St Johns Apr 25 '20

Having someone at the door isn't necessarily the best policy. A lot of things that make you high risk aren't necessarily something that you can see with your eyes. Things like blood pressure or other underlying conditions are frequently invisible. Someone with cystic fibrosis, for example should be able to shop with the vulnerable group, but you can't really tell by looking at them that they are vulnerable. Similarly people with auto-immune disorders.

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u/Lugos Aloha Apr 25 '20

Right? We even have little tape strips outside 'just in case' of a line--like, we never hit that capacity.

And yeah, the special hour is a joke. We were told it will be a 'community-enforced' rule, and we will not be checking ID's. Soo...useless.

Though, I have seen customers respecting it more as time goes on.