Peapod Expands Grocery Delivery Service For GIANT Shoppers With New North Coventry Wareroom



Peapod, the country's leading online grocer, in partnership with GIANT Food Stores, LLC announces the opening of its newest wareroom in North Coventry, Pennsylvania. The investment comes as Peapod has experienced double digit growth in the region for the last three consecutive years. With more and more shoppers embracing the convenience of online grocery delivery, the new wareroom will enable Peapod to serve up to 25 percent more shoppers in the greater Philadelphia area. This will be the fourth Peapod wareroom to open in Pennsylvania, and will bring 120 new jobs to the North Coventry community.

"We want to thank greater Philadelphia Peapod and GIANT customers as they have responded positively (and literally) with open doors since 2011 to our service, leading to tremendous growth in this market," said Walt Lentz, Peapod's acting president. "The new wareroom will allow us to increase capacity and meet the larger demand but we are also proud to bring 120 jobs to North Coventry. Shoppers choose Peapod because they know they can rely on us to deliver convenience, personalized solutions and great value on everyday essentials they care about the most."

"We want to be the ultimate meal planning and grocery solution for our customers," said John Ponnett, Senior Vice President, Retail Operations, GIANT. "The growth we are seeing tells us that our customers want what we all want – choices. We get it. That's why we provide offer a great in-store experience as well as the option of online grocery shopping and home delivery through Peapod."

Peapod is the trusted online grocery delivery partner for GIANT stores in Pennsylvania and the expansion will allow more loyal GIANT customers to shop how they want, when they want and most importantly, where they want whether in-store, online or at a convenient pick-up location.

GIANT shoppers are able to use their GIANT loyalty card on Peapod.com to quickly and easily look up past purchases for the ultimate in personalized, convenient shopping. Peapod also accepts all in-store coupons, along with offering thousands of weekly specials to help customers save time and money.

Peapod and GIANT will be hosting a grand opening event on February 20th from 2-3:30pm at the wareroom, located within and attached to the GIANT store at 86 Glocker Way Pottstown, PA 19465. Executives from Peapod and GIANT will be speaking along with local representatives. In honor of the opening, Peapod will be making a donation to the Coventry Food Pantry at the ceremony.


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