PORTLAND, Ore. — Fred Meyer recently announced that it will begin checking customer receipts at the door at Portland-area stores as part of a broader push to crack down on crime and shoplifting.

"It may not look identical to a Costco style, but we'll employ measures where we will check receipts as customers leave the store," said Fred Meyer President Todd Kammeyer. Both changes are part ...

He'd snipped off the price tag when he wrapped the gift, but he still had the receipt and the Fred Meyer rewards card he scanned when he bought it. "The clerk was very nice, but she said I didn't ...

So I think it’s a good idea to check receipts as they go out." But Wells also isn't sure that Fred Meyer's security efforts will little stores like his. "The problem is what do you do about it?

He, too, said the lack of shopping carts at the local Fred Meyer is a bigger inconvenience than having to go through the newly installed security gates and receipt checks. “I can’t walk too ...