{"id":73854,"date":"2025-12-30T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:55:38","slug":"warehouse-closures-for-giant-supermarkets-what-lehigh-valley-workers-need-to-know-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73854\/","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse closures for Giant supermarkets: What Lehigh Valley workers need to know (UPDATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lehigh County<\/a> warehouse is among five to be closed by The Giant Company <\/a> as part of a reorganization plan for the supermarket chain.<\/p>\n

Salisbury, North Carolina-based Ahold Delhaize USA, the supermarket\u2019s parent company, announced plans to downsize earlier this month<\/a>. The Giant Company was formerly known as Giant Food Stores. <\/p>\n

The warehouses to be closed are in Coopersburg, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Willow Grove in Montgomery County and North Coventry Township in Chester County. Additionally, Giant is closing its centralized e-commerce fulfillment operation facility in Manassas, Virginia.<\/p>\n

All the fulfillment centers are expected to be closed by the end of April 2026, Giant spokeswoman Ashley Flower told lehighvalleylive.com.<\/p>\n

Over 200 jobs are on the chopping block at the Philadelphia and Lancaster locations. The confirmed number of employees impacted was announced this month in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act Notice<\/a> filed with the state department.<\/p>\n

The notice is mandated by U.S. labor law. It requires companies with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days\u2019 advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday morning, no notices were filed for the three other statewide locations. Flower said over 100 employees at the Coopersburg location are being offered positions elsewhere in the company.<\/p>\n

Ahold Delhaize USA stated in its announcement it wants to revamp Giant\u2019s home delivery system. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve learned over the past few years that there isn\u2019t a one size fits all approach to our e-commerce business, particularly our fulfillment model. With customers expecting faster delivery, we need to ensure we are operating as efficiently as possible to meet their ever-changing needs,\u201d Flower told lehighvalleylive.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flower said Giant Direct orders will now be assembled by store employees and delivered by a third-party provider, such as DoorDash.<\/p>\n

Using this approach, each of the U.S. brands is best positioned to deliver on customers\u2019 expectations for pick-up and delivery options in as little as 30 minutes where possible, Ahold Delhaize USA said.<\/p>\n

Flower touted other benefits of the new plan, including an expanded assortment and in-store pricing. She said patrons will be able to change their orders two to three hours before a delivery versus the four- to six-hour previous timeframe.<\/p>\n

Giant has over a dozen locations in the Lehigh Valley. The newest Giant was recently<\/a> built at the South Mall in Salisbury Township.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh County warehouse is among five to be closed by The Giant Company as part of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-73854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}