CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Food Stores has celebrated some significant milestones with ribbon-cuttings recently. Last month GIANT president Nicholas Bertram joined store manager Tim Dinsmore and other dignitaries for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 100th store offering the GIANT DIRECT online grocery delivery service. Then on August 2 the company was scheduled to open its
CARLISLE, Pa. — Nicholas Bertram, president of GIANT Food Stores, joined store manager Tim Dinsmore and other dignitaries for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday to commemorate a milestone for the company’s digital grocery service. With the ceremony at a GIANT store here, the GIANT DIRECT, Powered by Peapod, service is now available at 100 stores
SALISBURY, N.C. — Two divisions of Ahold Delhaize USA celebrated the opening of new stores this month, and a third announced a $40 million plan to remodel 23 stores in Virginia. The GIANT Food Stores division held grand openings at a half-dozen stores in four states. Five of the stores — former Shop ’n Save
CARLISLE, Pa. – Ahold Delhaize USA’s GIANT Food Stores division celebrated the grand openings of six new stores in four states on Friday, boosting its total store count to 178. Five of the stores, which are former Shop ‘n Save locations GIANT acquired earlier this year, are branded MARTIN’S Food Markets. They are located in
CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Food Stores is broadening its customer base with a new e-commerce hub here that fortifies its digital platform and a smaller-store format, introduced in Philadelphia, that the retailer will deploy in urban neighborhoods. The grocer’s new e-commerce center offers a pickup option for shoppers who buy online, drive to the hub
CARLISLE, Pa., — GIANT Food Stores said Monday that its planned acquisition of five Shop ‘n Save stores has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission. GIANT Food, a unit of Ahold Delhaize USA, agreed to buy the stores from United Natural Foods Inc.’s Supervalu subsidiary on November 6. The stores involved in the sale are:
CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Food Stores hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday for a new e-commerce hub in Lancaster, Pa. The facility is part of the retailer’s recently rebranded digital grocery operation, which is called “GIANT DIRECT, Powered by Peapod.” The new hub, which is being operated in partnership with Peapod Digital Labs, will
CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Food Stores announced plans to open another three GIANT Heirloom Market stores in Philadelphia this year. The inaugural store in this concept opened late last month in Philadelphia’s Graduate Hospital neighborhood, and company officials have been heartened by the initial response from shoppers. “GIANT Heirloom Market is the next chapter in
CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Food Stores is rebranding its digital grocery operations. The new branding — GIANT DIRECT, Powered by Peapod — will replace the current branding of Peapod by GIANT. The change comes with a new logo bearing the phrase “Direct from us, to you,” the company announced on Monday. The new brand will
CARLISLE, Pa. — GIANT Food Stores said Monday it is introducing a robotic assistant — named Marty — to its 172 stores to identify hazards, such as liquid, powder and bulk food spills, and provide reporting that enables quick corrective action. “Bringing robotics and AI [artificial intelligence] from a research lab to the sales floor
CARLISLE, Pa. — Ahold Delhaize’s GIANT Food Stores unit said Thursday that it plans to open the first GIANT Heirloom Market on Friday, January 25. The new outlet, located in Philadelphia’s Graduate Hospital neighborhood, is a new small-format concept that the retailer plans to use in urban neighborhoods. The 9,500-square-foot store promises to deliver a
AMSTERDAM — Dutch-Belgian supermarket group Ahold Delhaize, the owner of Stop & Shop, Food Lion, Giant Food Stores and Hannaford, is looking for acquisitions in the United States, its chief executive announced in a Dutch newspaper report. The comments in Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad signal a potential strategy shift for Ahold under chief executive officer