With 15 years as a produce clerk at the Fred Meyer store on Kent’s East Hill, Bryan Gilderoy thought business was going pretty well this year.
“We were up in sales lately,” Gilderoy said during a Monday, Aug. 25 interview at Starbucks inside the Fred Meyer at 10201 SE 240th St. “It felt like we were just starting to get into a good groove on things.”
So when Cincinnati, Ohio-based Kroger announced Aug. 18 that the store would permanently close Oct. 17, Gilderoy had one reaction…