MeijerReviews of meijer.com

Awesome job to the staff and management at Meijers you handled the situation well concerning a little thief. we need to stop people like this thinking they can get away with stealing. again, thank you for a job well done throw the book at the little crook very well handled

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!

Garbage company

Manager assaults staff, Had a poor staff member arrested over food that is almost expired being taken to eat, don't even want their own people fed. What a crap world we live in. Don't trust these old farts. Find a new supermarket... Even better learn to share and grow your own.

Despicable company. Shopping there should be a crime, not sending a disabled employee eating trash food you were throwing out because he’s starving on low wages to prison. Awful! Shame! How do ANY of you sleep at night?!?!? I received no incentive to write this.

Over Chicken and Fruit cups they were going to throw away at the end of shift anyways they arrested a sweet hard working man that they underpay for eating such waste. MEJIER is an absolute joke. Does not support that avg hard working everyday worker like myself who gets underpaid by a greedy establishment.

You had a disabled young man arrested for eating a little more than $100 in food over a period of time to allow him to rack up charges. How immoral of you. You lost more in the long run. And no one agrees with your policies.