As Ahold Delhaize USA companies continue to advance the “Growing Together” strategy and provide the service omnichannel customers expect, Giant Food and The GIANT Company are planning to close their centralized fulfillment locations. This includes:

• Giant Food to close its centralized e-commerce fulfillment operations at its Manassas, VA, facility
• The GIANT Company will close its five fulfillment facilities in Pennsylvania: the Island Avenue facility in Philadelphia, along with facilities in Willow Grove, Coopersburg, North Coventry and Lancaster.

Giant Food and The GIANT Company will continue to operate these facilities into early next year, with most closures occurring by the end of the first quarter 2026. The difficult decisions to close these facilities were made after carefully considering customer trends and preferences for home delivery, where customers are increasingly expecting fast delivery, more assortment and delivery availability to meet their preferences.

Over the past several years, Ahold Delhaize USA companies have transitioned to a local, store-first fulfillment network to offer greater customer availability at faster speeds. This strategy has been enabled by strong technology improvements and partnerships and team members who execute every day in stores.

Ahold Delhaize USA companies also noted that grocery delivery continues to remain an integral part of its brands' omnichannel growth strategies, which provide customers with the flexibility to shop both in-store or online, anytime they want.

In addition to continuing to offer in-store fulfillment of customers' e-commerce orders for both pick-up and delivery, Ahold Delhaize USA companies will continue relationships with third-party fulfillment partners like Instacart and DoorDash for delivery. Using this approach, each of the U.S. brands are best positioned to deliver on customers' expectations for quick pick-up and delivery options, and, where possible, in as little as 30 minutes.

While these decisions are right for the future of our businesses, we also realize they impact people. Each of the brands and support functions with affected associates have plans in place to care for associates during this time. Associates affected by these decisions will be offered other positions within their respective company or have the opportunity to apply for open roles.

With The GIANT Company's decision, Ahold Delhaize USA will take an estimated non-cash impairment charge of $35 million for the closures of their five facilities. With the Giant Food decision, Ahold Delhaize USA will take an estimated non-cash impairment charge of $15 million for the closure of the Manassas facility.

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which also includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands: Food Lion, The GIANT Company, Giant Food, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. When considered together, the companies of Ahold Delhaize USA comprise the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest in the nation, serving 26 million omnichannel customers each week. For more information, visit www.adusa.com.  

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