Quicken is assigning old categories. How do I make a default?

I have been using Quicken for nearly 20 years and just updated to 2019 but noticed this problem in the last version as well.  For the most part, it gets categories correct. However, for some payees, I have used multiple categories in the past.  For example, I have Fred Meyer and most of the time I use the grocery category for this.  In the past, I have bought specific things there and may have changed the category (for example about a year ago I bought some things for work and assigned a job reimbursement category).  I only used that a couple times but now every time I have a Fred Meyer transaction, it defaults to the job reimbursement category.  How can I make it default to either the last category I used or the one I use the most (which is almost always groceries)?

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  • mshiggins
    mshiggins Quicken Windows 2017 SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2018
    QWin or QMac?

    Quicken user since Q1999. Currently using QW2017.
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  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    edited December 2018
    Win
  • UKR
    UKR Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2018
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    edited December 2018
  • mshiggins
    mshiggins Quicken Windows 2017 SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020

    Win

    Thanks. Discussion category updated.

    Quicken user since Q1999. Currently using QW2017.
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  • UKR
    UKR Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2018
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    edited December 2018
    I do manually review and accept everything.  I checked the lock for Groceries, deleted a couple of the other categories under Fred Meyer, and left a few others that I still occasionally use.  I will see if it defaults to Groceries next time it downloads.  Thanks.
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    edited December 2018
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