Quick Answer: Meijer rents through its own BISSELL Rental product line, not Rug Doctor — confirmed directly on meijer.com’s own “BISSELL Rental Daily Fee” and “BISSELL Carpet Cleaner Rental 48 Hour Fee” listings. The Big Green upright runs about $29.99/24hr, $39.99/48hr (below the $39.99/$49.99 standard at Rug Doctor-branded chains), and a Bissell Little Green Pro portable rents for about $14.99/24hr. The twist nobody spells out: Bissell Rental and Rug Doctor aren’t competitors. They merged in 2022, so Meijer’s “different brand” kiosk and Kroger’s or Publix’s Rug Doctor kiosk are run by the same company.
Every grocery chain covered in this series so far — Kroger, Publix, Safeway, and Food Lion — rents Rug Doctor machines, with H-E-B standing out as the lone Bissell-branded exception. Meijer breaks that 4-to-1 pattern: its own site lists the rental as a BISSELL Rental product, not a Rug Doctor one, making it the second grocery chain here running on Bissell’s rental brand instead of Rug Doctor’s.
What it actually costs
| Rental item | Typical rate | How it compares |
|---|---|---|
| Bissell Big Green, 24 hours | ~$29.99 | Below Rug Doctor's $39.99 national tier |
| Bissell Big Green, 48 hours | ~$39.99 | Below Rug Doctor's $49.99 national tier |
| Bissell Little Green Pro, 24 hours | ~$14.99 | Matches H-E-B's standalone portable option |
| Bissell Little Green Pro, 48 hours | ~$19.99 | Second chain in this series to offer this tier |
| Deposit | Not consistently reported | Contrasts with the ~$15-$20 figure at other chains |
| Cleaning solution | Sold separately, BISSELL Rental-branded | Same pattern as every chain covered |
The pricing itself isn’t the headline — Publix already beat the national rate with its own $29.99-ish tier. What’s actually new here is the brand, and the fact that “brand” barely means what it sounds like.
The Bissell/Rug Doctor mix-up, explained
It would be easy to read “Kroger, Publix, Safeway, and Food Lion rent Rug Doctor, but Meijer and H-E-B rent Bissell” as two competing rental networks carving up the grocery-store market. That’s not what’s happening. Rug Doctor and BISSELL Rental merged back in 2022, and per our Rug Doctor vs Bissell comparison, Rug Doctor’s own site now describes the result as “Rug Doctor by BISSELL” — combining, in the company’s own words, “the heritage and trust of two leading brands” rather than folding one into the other. The two rental-facing names kept running separately specifically so a Kroger shopper still sees “Rug Doctor” and a Meijer shopper still sees “BISSELL Rental,” even though the same parent company issues both receipts.
That matters for exactly one practical reason: don’t expect a meaningfully different machine, process, or support line just because the sign says a different name. Both rental lines are the same vibrating-brush/upright hot-water-extraction category, sourced from companies that, since 2022, report to the same house.
What to bring
- A current driver’s license. Not itemized in Meijer’s online rental-fee listings, but every chain in this series that documents its process requires photo ID at checkout.
- Around $35-$45. The $29.99-$39.99 Big Green rate plus whatever deposit your specific store applies — confirm by phone, since online listings and in-store practice don’t fully agree here.
- Solution, bought separately. Meijer sells its own BISSELL Rental-branded formula alongside the machine rental.
Bissell Little Green Max Pet — skip the brand confusion entirely
- No deposit ambiguity, no customer-service-desk form, no "which brand is this really" question.
- 48oz tank handles the spot jobs and pet accidents a full rental is overkill for.
- Pays for itself in roughly three Meijer Big Green rentals with solution included.
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How it compares to the rest of this series
Price-wise, Meijer’s Big Green undercuts the Rug Doctor-standard chains (Kroger, Safeway) the same way Publix’s cheaper tier does, and it matches H-E-B in offering a standalone portable rental alongside the full-size upright. What makes it worth its own entry isn’t the price — it’s confirming that the Bissell-branded exception H-E-B introduced wasn’t a one-off: Bissell Rental is a real, repeatable retail-facing program showing up in a second grocery chain, and the “different company” read that naturally follows from seeing two different logos is simply wrong. For the full breakdown of every chain’s pricing, deposit, and process side by side, see our carpet cleaner rental guide.
Bottom line
Meijer rents Bissell Big Green machines for about $29.99/24hr (plus a Little Green Pro portable option at $14.99/24hr) through its own BISSELL Rental product line — the second grocery chain in this series, after H-E-B, to run on Bissell’s brand instead of Rug Doctor’s. The two brands merged in 2022, so this isn’t a competing rental network, just a different name on the same receipt. For anything you’ll clean more than once or twice a year, the math still favors owning: see our best carpet cleaner rankings to skip the deposit question, the ID check, and the drive entirely.