MeijerReviews of meijer.com

In stead of arresting that young man your company should have had some compassion and allow your employee to have a meal because obviously he was HUNGRY!!!! And a child at that!! SMH To have him arrested instead of talking to him and finding out what the issue was is insane! Obviously the young man was hungry and a company that makes billions should have allowed that young man an employee meal while on the clock! This is unacceptable and sickening to say the least!!!

Fruit cups and chicken

Horrible ableist company that arrested a disabled man because he was hungry.

Do the right thing and drop charges.

If I could leave this place zero Stars I would these people have some kind of gall

You guys need to make it right, what happened to James is unacceptable.

Meijer, a massive grocery chain, made a disgraceful choice: they had a 16-year-old boy arrested for eating what was reportedly a throw-away fruit cup. Think about that for a moment. Not a robbery, not violence just a hungry teenager eating food the store had already decided to toss. Every day, grocery stores discard mountains of unsold food. Employees see the waste while barely making enough to buy lunch. Instead of addressing this reality with compassion, Meijer turned to handcuffs. They treated a minor like a criminal for a plastic cup of fruit. That’s not policy it’s punishment without perspective. Yes, rules matter. But leadership is about proportion. A manager could have warned him, written him up, or even fired him if it continued. That would have been a fair response. Instead, they chose the nuclear option: call the police. At sixteen, that boy now carries an arrest record over something as trivial as discarded produce. That is not accountability; it is cruelty. The irony is unbearable: Meijer would rather throw food into the dumpster than let a hungry kid eat it. By criminalizing a harmless mistake, they’ve shown what they truly value: not community, not compassion, but rigid enforcement and corporate pride. This wasn’t about protecting profits. It wasn’t about preventing loss. It was about making an example of a teenager who posed no threat. And in doing so, Meijer revealed just how cold and thoughtless its leadership really is. Over a fruit cup, a billion-dollar company chose humiliation, punishment, and police involvement. That says everything about Meijer’s priorities and none of it is good.

Absolutely deplorable company. Do not shop here!