Talk:Fred Meyer/Archives/2013

Three-letter store identifiers littering the article will be removed

...unless someone can make a very good case for what they are doing here. --Superfish! 18:41, 28 Dec 2007 (UTC)

Fred Meyer and the Occult

• Most of the information in the deleted section "Fred Meyer and the Occult" is untrue, sources need to be cited. If the user continues to re add the deleted misinformation he is in violation with Wikipedia policies on Vandalism and will face consequences for this. Hypernick1980 07:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I just removed the final connection to the Rosicrucian Order. Even if Fred G. Meyer was a member, that would only belong here if there was some connection to the stores (which would have to be sourced). Huon 10:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Added nickname, "Freddie's"

Please feel free to move this nugget of knowledge around to any other place in the article--just please don't delete it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.59.189.146 (talk • contribs) 22:40, 9 June 2006 (UTC).

It seems to have been deleted because it was unsourced. Yes, practically everyone in the Pacific Northwest knows that Fred Meyer is also called Freddy’s, but adding it without a source is still WP:NOR original research. Never fear, though, I have found some sources, and have re-added this info with the appropriate citations.—Clipdude 23:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

The Fred Meyer Prank of 1994

Famous computer hacker and prankster RedBoxChiliPepper from Phone Losers of America discovered a way to remotely overtake the Fred Meyer overhead paging system in 1994. Many stores in the Portland, Oregon area were affected by this prank in much of 1994 and throughout the next 2 years until Fred Meyer patched their security holes in the phone system. The pranksters managed to stay on the overhead system for hours at a time and even conducted interviews with Fred Meyer security personnel while broadcasting the interview to the entire store. These pranks are legendary and employees at many of the Portland area stores still remember them or have heard about them from the older employees. PLA's Fred Meyer Pranks

• While interesting, I simply do not see how this anecdote belongs in an encyclopedia. It neither explains about the company's philosphies, history, or did it effect the chain on a broad scale; the article implies that only a handful of stores in the greater-Portland area were targeted, which might have been a huge victory for the prankster but was not a huge loss to the company. If we included information of every security breech on every company in Wikipedia, we'd have some very large articles to contend with. Feel free to discuss. -- Zytron 16:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Store List

Any real reason to have the store list? 67.183.56.47 00:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Removed the following section

Trivia

• Despite sharing founders and formative management of the same name and similar store concepts, there is no relationship between Fred Meyer and the similarly named, privately-held Fred Meijer stores.

This is covered in the disambiguation statement at the top of the article, and is therefore not needed, IMHO. Plus, the link given leads to another disambiguation page. Zytron 14:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Image of packaged food

I don't think the image of packaged food adds much to this article. I would think that most all supermarkets carry some sort of packaged goods, and this picture is extremely generic. I think it would be a good idea to replace it with a picture of something more unique within the store. Tell me what you think. Hojimachong 03:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Store Names

I know for a fact that the store in Idaho is for Garden City, I am curious why this was changed. Also, names like East Bench and Glenwood are not helpful in Idaho, as they are not the cities (the Boise area isn't as many "neighborhoods" as Portland, for example.

Also, should the Hawthorne store be mentioned under "Marketplace" stores? It is a full-service store.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.193.111.16 (talk • contribs) 00:43, December 19, 2006

Response to "Store Names"

Ironically enough, the Idaho store name which you call "Garden City" is, in reality, called "Glenwood"...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.60.208.2 (talk • contribs) 10:28, February 15, 2007

tables

hideous blue tables. sad that wikipedians are taking design cues from '90s geocities webpages. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.137.223.153 (talk) 06:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC).

Can someone explain how these tables are encyclopedic? Because Wikipedia is not a directory. Katr67 23:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't see how they are encyclopedic—if they had historic value, like the opening years of such units, I would say mark as {{list to prose (section)}}, {{cleanup-laundry}}, {{unreferencedsect}}, etc. to neutralize the content and merge into the history section, but they don't. Tuxide 00:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

The tables seem extremely extraneous, and nobody has justified them, so I'm going to remove them from the article. --Brandon Dilbeck 19:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I concur that the tables are not appropriate for Wikipedia. The article looks much better now! --Coolcaesar 09:14, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

History

Can we get some history on the 1931 Hollywood Fred Meyer. Was it a hypermarket? What size was it? 12.145.73.51 18:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I've been asking similar questions at Talk:Hypermarket for quite some time (it would be nice to get the debate between the Fred Meyer and Carrefour fans resolved once and for all). Unfortunately, it looks like no one in the state of Oregon has the time or energy to go dig up the appropriate issues of the Oregonian from 1931! --Coolcaesar 04:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

No mention of Fred Meyer Savings and Loan from the 1970's? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.8.177 (talk) 07:30, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Start class

Add a little more plus some references and this is a B class article. Aboutmovies 00:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Fredmey.gif

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Fair use rationale for Image:Fred meyer logopng.PNG

Image:Fred meyer logopng.PNG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 08:54, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Corporately influenced/biased page?

It would appear as though someone may have been commissioned by the Kroger Corporation to make edits and add information, some of which is promotional in nature (See "Rewards"). For whatever it is worth, some of this information is blatantly inaccurate for a good number of stores (all of Idaho, and much of Washington). In example: the article implies that all locations have a recycling center, when in reality this is exclusive (in my knowledge) to the Oregon stores. They have also added a large amount of information about the "Rewards" program as well as unnecessary employment recruiting information, presumably just in time for the holiday season. While some of this information may be valuable, a great deal is simply promotional in nature. When I have more time, I will try to weed through it to find whatever should be left in the article if nobody beats me to it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.60.208.2 (talk • contribs) 20:23, September 4, 2007

Alaska Fuel Rewards

I added in that, as of August 1, 2009, Alaska stores with a fuel center now allow for customers to redeem 1000 fuel points at a time for a discount of up to $1 per gallon off. I can't find an online source, but I live in Anchorage and have several receipts outlining the new program. How might one go about citing something such as this? Might I be able to upload a scan of a receipt showing the details and link to it? koolman2 (talk) 08:51, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Fred Bear

Could someone make a note about Fred Meyer mascot Fred Bear? When I started with FM in 1998, Fred Bear was a huge deal. In my original store, we had a very large bi-plane hanging from the rafters with a Fred Bear in it. We used to sell Fred Bear stuffed animals with little red vests and bow ties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.7.88.35 (talk) 21:20, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Notable fred meyers

I know of a pair of Fred Meyers in Fairbanks Alaska that are fairly large. In fact, the one on the west side of town is the largest Fred Meyer in the world, or at least, it's what I've been told. I think it shows what the store can to with little to no competition in a city. Only within the last decade has Walmart moved in, and before that, the store's only competition was Safeway, and other, smaller, more specialized chains. I cite the Google map of the area, as a Google search did not come up with anything. 209.193.29.153 (talk) 23:07, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Judging by the parking, this does not look like a very big Fred Meyer. Using Google Maps measuring widget, I get 174 by 108 metres (571 by 354 ft), or 18,792 square metres (202,280 sq ft). Off the top of my head, the Beaverton, Oregon Fred Meyer seems larger: 118 by 170 metres (387 by 558 ft) or 20,060 square metres (215,900 sq ft), but I have omitted the freight area to compensate for the various small non-Fred Meyer stores (coffee shop, dry cleaner, shoe repair, etc.) which are also in that store. That's a little larger than the more typical stores, one of which is a few miles NW, the 158th Ave store which is 127 by 132 metres (417 by 433 ft) or 16,764 square metres (180,450 sq ft). —EncMstr (talk) 01:15, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

West Fairbanks was acknowledged as the largest store in the chain when it opened in 1991. Don't know how easy it will be to produce a source for that, as I assume it easier to find a contemporary rather than modern source for such a statement. West Fairbanks was recently annexed into the city of Fairbanks, as well as expanded, both of which were somewhat controversial. I haven't checked to see if Google shows the current building or not.

Safeway was the only national chain competing with Freddy's, true. There were still a handful of local grocers, most of which either went out of business or were sold off by the late 1980s and early 1990s. There was also Carrs, which hung on until being acquired by Safeway in 1999. Fred Meyer didn't even begin selling groceries in Alaska until 1985, or roughly a decade after they opened their first store here. RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 03:07, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

There's also a pretty darn large (and relatively new) Fred Meyer's in Juneau, but I don't know where it stacks up exactly. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 02:12, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Relatively new? If we're talking about the one across Egan Drive from Juneau International Airport, it was built in the 1980s. I believe it was expanded/renovated in recent memory, though.

Speaking of that store, it's been 15+ years since I've been to Juneau, but I remember they had A, B, C and D entrances, as opposed to the usual A, B and C entrances. I don't know if that lettering scheme for entrances has ever found it's way into published RS or not, but it sure gets mentioned a whole lot, usually as a brilliant idea. Is it something which anyone feels is appropriate to mention in the article? RadioKAOS  – Talk to me, Billy 00:53, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, by "new" I more or less meant recently renovated. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:03, 14 May 2013 (UTC)