The GIANT Company

There's no better way to celebrate National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day than with our fan favorite cookie buckets! 🍪

Look at all of these Hersheypark Happy faces! 😊 We loved seeing our team members and their families connecting around a table and having fun together at The GIANT Company's Family Day held at the end of July. 🎢🎡

We mashed. We chopped. We made a difference. Today, on National Avocado Day, we had a pit-icularly amazing time with our friends at Philabundance and Avocados From Mexico at the 4th annual Top Guac Challenge! 🥑✨ Congratulations to the winning duo, GIANT store manager Joanna Renzulli and Philabundance Community Kitchen graduate Kahiem Love-Miller, who earned the title of Best Guacamole in Philly! We’re grateful to our partners for their tireless efforts to eliminate hunger in our communities, including their work to help us get 60,000 nutrient-rich avocados in the hands of Philadelphians experiencing food insecurity. Thanks also to The GIANT Company team members who served as contestants and judges, helping make today’s donation and competition a success.

It's National Intern Day! 🎉 To celebrate, we hosted our interns for a lunch & learn with our leadership team. Great food and conversation - the perfect way to thank them for choosing to spend their summer with The GIANT Company! Later in the day, the interns headed to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, where they packed 400 meal boxes for seniors in under two hours.  Our summer 2024 interns have been crushing it, and we can't wait for what's next: project presentations and graduation!

This Meet a Team Member Monday, we’d like to introduce Timothy Hou! Tim is a research and design engineer at The GIANT Company Support Office in Carlisle, Pa. He’s worked for the company since April 2020, starting as a GIANT Direct shopper in State College. Tim joined us after living in Australia for six years, working as an engineer to improve manufacturing in health care and banknote printing (literally printing money)! When asked about his favorite part of his job, Tim shared, “By far, my favorite part of my role is that no two days look the same. All the projects I work on impact various parts of the business, and I get to collaborate with colleagues across multiple departments.” So what does his job entail? In his words, “I enjoy getting the opportunity to apply my engineering experience and solve problems to further improve process efficacy and to simplify the work of others.” Tim enjoys and excels at innovating, problem solving, and collaborating. A recent example of this is the company-wide deployment of the Mobile Grocery Wing project, which improves merchandising and standardizes the look across the front end of our stores. His team also launched a project across 35 stores that improved the process on how fast-moving perishable products, including yogurt, are stocked by team members and shopped by customers. Working for a company that cares about the planet matters to Tim and is an important part of his work. He says, “I care deeply about healing our planet and doing everything possible to improve our environment. This can be seen in the projects I have led and advocated for such as installing air curtains at our store entrances and using antimicrobial deli bags, which reduced the use of deli plastic wrap by 98%.” He also cares about his community. His favorite volunteer event was in November 2023, when his team volunteered at the Central PA Food Bank. The team helped to organize and pack 1,500 Thanksgiving meals for families in need. Tim shares, “This was a deeply rewarding experience, and I am thankful that the company supports and encourages us to volunteer and help our communities.” Tim is famous by proximity. His corgi Mabel won the company’s Cutest Pet Award in 2022. (Look at her photo – it’s totally deserved!) 😍🐶 We’re happy to have Tim as part of the GIANT team and grateful for his efforts to think outside the box!

Happy National Pennsylvania Day! There are so many things we love about the Commonwealth - its delicious food, great sports teams, beautiful parks to explore - we could go on and on! Tell us your favorite thing about the Keystone State in the comments - we'll go first!

Bring Your Child to Work Day at The GIANT Company Support Office was entertaining, to say the least. As part of the kids' full day of fun activities, we asked them on camera what their parent does at GIANT. Check out a few of their responses. 😂

As part of our Changing Children's Lives campaign, our teams have had so much fun hosting Miracle Kids and their families for in-store scavenger hunts over the past few weeks! The kiddos visited different departments, met team members, and filled their bags with fun swag. The smiles say it all! Help us support Children's Miracle Network Hospitals by rounding up at the register from now through August 31. All donations help provide critical care and services, fund groundbreaking research, and purchase life-saving medical equipment. Together, we can #ChangeKidsHealth!

Today was a day of connecting, growing, and learning. The GIANT Company’s 2024 Learning Summit brought together 300+ team members to engage in authentic conversations about effective leadership and a caring culture. Special thanks to our speakers Bryant T. Marks, Ph.D. and Disney Institute for sharing experience, insight, and inspiration with our team, and to all of our team members who took to the stage! #GIANT2024LearningSummit #LearningTogether #WinningTogether

Today, in partnership with Geisinger and Central Susquehanna Opportunities, Inc. (CSO), we unveiled a new mobile food pantry ready to serve individuals and families facing food insecurity in Pennsylvania's Central Susquehanna Valley.     “Food insecurity impacts every neighborhood and can have serious implications for individuals and communities. That’s why we work with local hunger relief partners and support initiatives such as this new mobile food pantry to help eliminate hunger in the communities we serve,” said Nick Koch, head of wellbeing, The GIANT Company. “This innovative solution brings fresh, healthy food directly to families that need it the most but may lack the transportation necessary to visit a traditional pantry.”     The mobile pantry will provide fresh produce, dairy, meat, and shelf-stable pantry items. In its first two distributions in late June, the mobile pantry helped 175 individuals. For more information or to view the schedule for the mobile food pantry, visit www.csocares.org.