Giant’s e-commerce fulfillment center at 315 York Road in Willow Grove (Upper Moreland Township) is expected to close on April 3 and affect 105 workers, The Philadelphia Business Journal reported.

A fulfillment center is a logistics facility that stores, processes, packs, and ships products for businesses. Note that the Giant grocery store is not closing.

The fulfillment center’s closure was first announced in December. Glenside Local reported at the time that the number of workers to be laid off was not mentioned in the press release.

In addition to the Willow Grove facility, the GIANT Company will close four other fulfillment centers, also known as “warerooms”, in Pennsylvania: the Island Avenue facility in Philadelphia, along with facilities in Coopersburg, North Coventry and Lancaster. Most of the closures will take place in early 2026.

According to The Journal, employees at each of the five Pennsylvania fulfillment centers will be reassigned to new positions within the same geographic region beginning on or around the date of their facility’s closure.

According to Ahold Delhaize USA, a U.S. subsidiary of the Dutch supermarket conglomerate, the company decided to close these facilities after considering customer trends and preferences for home delivery that increasingly include fast delivery and wider assortment and delivery availability. 

“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,” the press release said.

Ahold Delhaize USA will take an estimated non-cash impairment charge of $35 million for the closures of the five Giant Company facilities and an estimated non-cash impairment charge of $15 million for the closure of the Giant Food facility.

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