This is the
Ahold Delhaize You Work For

SCANDALS. LIES. ABUSE.

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When you were hired to work at Ahold Delhaize, they probably didn’t tell you about the things you’re about to read. As one of the world’s largest grocery companies, operating over 7,000 stores and employing over 400,000 people, perfection isn’t possible. But there are some serious skeletons in this company’s closet.

And you deserve to know about them.

EMPLOYEE ABUSE

When leadership fails, workers pay the price.

Whether it’s frontline staff, warehouse workers, or even farm laborers in their supply chain, time and again Ahold Delhaize has put its people in harm’s way. They’ve been discriminated against or simply ignored.

At Stop & Shop, over 31,000 workers went on strike after the company tried to gut their healthcare and benefits. In a Giant Food breakroom, Black employees reported finding a noose left as a threat. In Vermont, a farm supplying Hannaford’s store-brand milk violently assaulted a teenage worker, and the company refused to join a worker protection program that might’ve prevented it.

These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re symptoms of a deeper problem: a leadership team that cashes in while leaving workers overworked, underpaid, and unheard.

Read more about workers’ experiences at Food Lion and Hannaford.

Behind the branding

Ahold Delhaize and its banners have faced numerous scandals around the food they sell and the standards they ignore. At Food Lion, customers were exposed to salmonella, later tied to a nationwide outbreak that sickened over 1,000 people. Hannaford had to pull bottled water due to E. coli contamination. Albert Heijn, the company’s flagship Dutch brand, recalled millions of eggs contaminated with an illegal pesticide, and years earlier, pulled ready meals found to contain undeclared horse meat.

Numerous reports document concerning conditions for animals raised in Ahold Delhaize’s supply chain, too. In the Czech Republic, advocates claim the company supports practices that leave chickens mutilated, burned, and suffering. In America, a 2025 investigation showed pigs in the company’s supply chain are crammed inside tiny metal cages.

LOW STANDARDS

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INHUMANE STANDARDS

Broken promises

Ahold Delhaize continues to use battery cages in its supply chain, despite over a decade of promising that they would stop. In battery cages, hens are confined so tightly that they have hardly any space to move around or even spread their limbs. They have to eat, sleep, defecate, and lay eggs in the same cage day after day for their entire lives.

Advocates have been calling on the company to follow through with its pledge for years. The company’s primary response has been to delay and greenwash its policies. Meanwhile, millions of animals suffering in unimaginable conditions.

It’s time for Ahold Delhaize to get its act together.

What is it like to work for an Ahold Delhaize store?

  • "Training was split between customer service, procedure, and carefully worded anti-union propaganda."

    Indeed Employee Comment
    Hannaford

  • "I currently work at a Giant and hate it! It’s the most stressful job I’ve ever had. They expect us to be way faster than our bodies can handle and then pressure us constantly."

    Reddit Employee Comment
    Giant Food

  • "I've been working at the same store for 4 years & have seen SO much abuse come from department managers & when told about it upper management does absolutely nothing. Using the speak up line only gets you retaliated against..."

    Reddit Employee Comment
    Hannaford

  • "One of if not the hardest place I have ever worked at. I ended employment with them a week ago. It was just too much, and I work nonstop when I get in the door."

    Working At Food Lion
    Website Comment

  • "Long hours, low pay, and no real benefits. Employees are treated like they are really uneducated."

    Indeed Employee Comment
    Hannaford

  • "It’s terrible, under staffed, over worked. If you do 1 wrong thing you go from 40 hr weeks to 1-2 8 hour shifts. It just sucks"

    Working At Food Lion
    Website Comment

  • “I do believe bias, nepotism, racism, favoritism, all the isms are very very alive and well within the upper mgmt ranks at food lion. I believe this company has no real oversight, no real plans, no real action. It's very disheartening, honestly.”

    Reddit Employee Comment
    Food Lion

  • "Low staff, low pay, terrible benefits, employees getting no bereavement pay for parents dying, too much work for the staff we do have, zero support from management, etc. You name it, we're dealing with it."

    Working for Hannaford
    Website comment

  • "If you’re looking for a job where nobody appreciates what you do or how well, where management treats all staff like dirt, where you will never make any money Giant is the place for you."

    Reddit Employee Comment
    Giant Food

These executives get rich while workers and animals suffer.

FRANS MULLER
Chief Executive Officer

Paid nearly $6 million in annual compensation in 2024.

JOLANDA POOTS-BIJL
Chief Financial Officer

Paid nearly $2 million in annual compensation in 2024, a massive raise from $440,000 in 2023.

JJ FLEEMAN
CEO, Ahold Delhaize USA

Paid nearly $3 million in annual compensation in 2024, while facing numerous scandals in the U.S.

MILLIONS IN VIOLATIONS

Ahold Delhaize and its banners have paid an estimated $300 million in fines for offenses related to safety, worker conditions, price-fixing, and more.

For this company, a few fines aren’t a punishment. They’re a line item. Because when you make over $80 billion a year, you can afford it.

(For comparison, in the same time period, Costco paid $94 million in fines, Publix $55 million, and Target $187 million.

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