Posted by Annonymous
Hi I am a customer and had 9 of my personal items stolen by one of fred meyers employees. I have been shopping at this fred meyer several times a week for over 14 yrs and have never had any issues like today. I try to use at least 1 reusable shopping bag that I take in the store with me since you now charge for grocery bags and because of all the theft in this area I dont feel comfortable leaving my groceries in my car for long periods of time especially in your parking lot since I've already had my car broken into several times in this area and once in your parking lot so I ALWAYS ALWAYS just leave whatever groceries I previously bought from other stores in my bag when I shop since I only have 1 large reusable shopping bag to try and cut down on wasting and purchasing un-needed plastic grocery bags but today when I was checking out after I purchased my items from fred meyers your employee wanted me to scan my own personal items that I had already purchased from other stores or asked me to show my receipts and since I literally have over 500 receipts in my wallet (hopefully to aid in situations like this) did me no good since I sat there for over 20 minutes trying to find my receipts to show your employee already being late for work myself. After 20 minutes of this I had to leave and honestly didnt want to be chased out or tackled by one of your employees over something stupid like this so your employee literally got away with stealing 9 of my personal items, I dont know if they kept them for themself or threw them away and honestly don't care either way but the fact that I had 9 of my own personal items stolen by one of your employees is not right. I did not see this employee going through other customers purses or bags making them show receipts for personal items and stealing customers items if a receipts not provided, I'm not sure why I was targeted but I shouldn't have to come in naked to your store just to shop and not be robbed by your employees after being almost a daily customer for over 14 years. Your employees have no right to make customers show receipts for their personal items and then steal them from the customer if they cannot provide a receipt. Your store owes me $34.51 for my items that your employee stole from me. I hope other customers arent robbed like I was. Previously this same employee on a different shopping trip tried to get me to scan packaging supplies from the post office that I had just came from that were in my bag and werent even scannable because they were free. It seems like everytime this employee is working I am being harassed by them. Why is fred meyers allowing their employee to get away with this? There's ways to prevent theft at your store without allowing your employees to steal themselves if in fact that's what she was doing since I'm the one who ended up getting robbed. This employee is mascarading under the guise of theft prevention to allow them to help themself steal anything in customers bags or purses.