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Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of Netherlands-based Ahold Delhaize, is the parent company for Ahold Delhaize's U.S. companies, including its local brands, Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop, and the U.S. services companies, Retail Business Services, Peapod Digital Labs and ADUSA Supply Chain. When considered together, the local brands of Ahold Delhaize USA comprise the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest grocery retail group in the nation, operating more than 2,000 stores and distribution centers across more than 20 states and serving millions of customers each week through a uniquely local omnichannel experience. The Ahold Delhaize USA company team includes just over 100 associates across all East Coast office locations.
A Giant Deli Worker (Deli Clerk) is responsible for preparing and serving deli products while delivering excellent customer service. Key daily duties include slicing meats and cheeses to order, weighing and packaging items, preparing hot and cold foods, rotating stock, and maintaining food safety and sanitation standards.ย
Core Responsibilities
- Customer Service: Assist customers directly at the counter, make product recommendations, and take special orders for platters or sliced meats.ย
- Food Preparation: Slice, weigh, wrap, and price deli meats and cheeses. Prepare or assemble sandwiches, salads, and hot/cold prepared foods.ย
- Inventory & Stocking: Unload daily deliveries, stock display cases, and ensure expired or low-quality products are rotated or discarded.ย
- Sanitation & Cleanliness: Adhere to strict health, safety, and hygiene regulations. Regularly clean food preparation surfaces, utensils, display cases, and equipment like meat slicers.ย
- Physical Stamina: Ability to stand and walk for extended periods, as well as frequently lift, push, and move products weighing up to \(30-50\) lbs.ย
- Equipment Operation: Ability (or willingness to learn) to safely operate slicers, portion scales, handheld printers, and point-of-sale (POS) systems.ย
- Food Safety Knowledge: Understanding of code dating, product rotation, and cross-contamination prevention.ย
- Communication: A friendly, helpful, and professional attitude when engaging with the public.ย
A Giant Hot Foods Worker (Deli Associate) prepares, packages, and merchandises hot prepared foods. The role focuses on food safety, maintaining fresh displays, and providing friendly customer service. Associates often operate fryers, ovens, and slicers, and lift up to \(50\) lbs.ย
Core Responsibilities
- Food Preparation: Cook, heat, and assemble hot foods like rotisserie chickens, fried chicken, pizza, soups, and side dishes.
- Customer Service: Assist guests at the service counter, take special orders, and maintain a welcoming environment.
- Merchandising: Ensure hot cases and self-serve warmers are fully stocked, attractive, rotated for freshness, and accurately priced.
- Sanitation: Follow strict food safety and hygiene guidelines. This includes cleaning fryers, sanitizing workstations, and washing dishes.ย
Requirements & Physical Demands
- Availability: Requires flexible scheduling, frequently including mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays. 7am-8pm MONDAY-SUNDAY (OPEN AVAILABILITY)
- Physicality: Must be able to stand for long periods, bend, and lift up to \(30\)-\(50\) lbs frequently.
- Safety: Must understand and enforce local, state, and corporate health and sanitation regulations.ย
At Ahold Delhaize USA, we embrace and celebrate diversity. Our employees and prospective employees are treated with fairness, respect and dignity. We provide an equal opportunity workplace committed to hiring, training, compensating, and promoting persons based on their talents and abilities and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, family status, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.