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With the company incorporated on January 30, 1962, [7] a store was opened in Everett, Washington, in 1962 and a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) store in Lynnwood, Washington, in 1968. [8] Two more stores were opened in Lynnwood in 1971 from the acquired Grocery Boy chain. [9] Expansion for the company was slow.
Fred Meyer, Inc. is an American chain of hypermarket superstores and subsidiary of Kroger based in Portland, Oregon. [1] The stores operate in the northwestern United States, with locations in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.
Fred Meyer and QFC workers are primarily represented by UFCW Local 3000. After the union distributed Black Lives Matter buttons in 2020, Kroger managers prohibited their use by employees. The action was found to violate federal labor law by a National Labor Relations Board judge in May 2023.
[16] [17] However on July 11, 2023, the store in Bend was rebranded to Local Acres Marketplace to reflect its local ownership and to differentiate it from the chain owned by Kroger, which owns the Fred Meyer chain in the U.S. Northwest. [18] A Food 4 Less store in Massillon, Ohio, co-owned with local grocery chain Bordner's, closed in 2014. [19]
Fred Meyer Shooting Kelly is accused of walking into the Fred Meyer on Wellsian Way about 11 a.m. on Feb. 8, having a brief conversation with Krumbah, 38, before fatally shooting him.
Earlier, Fred Meyer had closed a full-service store located in Orem that failed to meet expectations. On November 12, 2008, a new Smith's Marketplace store was opened in Lehi, Utah. The store is 170,000 square feet (16,000 m 2). In 2008, Smith's also remodeled the former Fred Meyer store located at 500 East and 500 South in Salt Lake City.
On February 4, 2014, after a robbery at a US Bank located inside a Fred Meyer supermarket in Lynnwood, Washington, Hathaway's getaway vehicle was caught on surveillance. [4] The camera showed a light blue minivan with a Seattle Seahawks football decal on the back window and an after-market exterior mirror driving away. [4]
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