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Fred Meyer is an American chain of hypermarket superstores founded in 1922 in Portland, Oregon, United States, by Fred G. Meyer. The stores operate in the northwest U.S., with locations in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. The company was acquired by Kroger in 1998, though the stores are still branded Fred Meyer.
In New York City in 1886, Fred G. Meyer was born. His name at the time was Frederick Grubmeyer, but soon people would know him best as Fred Meyer, the owner of the stores with the same name. All seven brothers in his father's family were grocers so it was perhaps inevitable that Fred would follow in the family trade.
Fred G. Meyer (originally Frederick Grubmeyer) came to Portland, Oregon in 1908 when he was 22 years old. Drawing on his experience working for his family’s grocery business, Mr. Meyer began selling coffee from a horse-drawn cart to workers at farms and lumber camps.
The history of Fred Meyer, Inc. revolves around its founder, Fred G. Meyer, who guided the company until his death in 1978. In 1908, 22-year-old Frederick Grubmeyer, son of a Brooklyn grocer, moved to Portland and began selling coffee to workers at the farms and lumber camps that surrounded the burgeoning town of Portland.
Fred G. Meyer (1886–1978) During a Portland business career that spanned nearly seventy years, Fred Meyer used self-taught entrepreneurial skills to rise from selling coffee door-to-door in 1909 to being a national leader of a self-service, one-stop-shopping retail empire.
The biggest merger in our history came in 1999, when we merged with Fred Meyer, Inc. (owner of Smith’s Ralphs, Food 4 Less and QFC) in a $13 billion deal that created a supermarket chain with the broadest geographic coverage and the widest variety of formats in the food retailing industry.
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May 23, 2018 · The history of Fred Meyer, Inc. revolves around its founder, Fred G. Meyer, who guided the company until his death in 1978. In 1908, 22-year-old Frederick Grubmeyer, son of a Brooklyn grocer, moved to Portland and began selling coffee to workers at the farms and lumber camps that surrounded the burgeoning town of Portland.
