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Peapod pops up 10 million orders

Wednesday, 7 February, 2007 was a red letter day for Peapod, Ahold’s internet grocer in the USA. It fulfilled its 10 millionth order - a great moment for the company and its customers.

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Ahold and CSR: Ensuring our future

As a large food retailer, our business impacts the lives of millions of customers every day who come to us to fulfill one of their most basic needs.

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Andrea Astrachan is a Top Woman in Grocery

Andrea Astrachan, Vice President of Consumer Affairs at Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover, has been named one of Progressive Grocer’s ‘Top Women in Grocery’

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Healthy fun on Class Lunch Day

Fun and a healthy meal created a hit menu for Albert Heijn’s 2007 Class Lunch day. 75,000 schoolchildren joined to discover the delights of fruit and veg at lunchtime.

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Healthy Living

We all want to enjoy healthy lives, but in today’s busy world it can be difficult to eat well. So Ahold is helping to make healthy choices easier.

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Albert Heijn: from Konmar to AH XL

Albert Heijn (AH) expanded in 2006 with the acquisition of nearly 30 Konmar stores. And in a race against the clock, it succeeded in converting 23 to the AH format ahead of the Christmas shopping season.

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Giant-Carlisle transforms Clemens stores

When Giant-Carlisle acquired 14 Clemens stores in the Philadelphia area, it rolled out a massive action plan. It converted the stores in time for Christmas to the delight of shoppers and staff.

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ICA says it with roses

ICA had a special Valentine’s Day gift for customers this year. The Swedish company handed out 10,000 roses to promote its own brand label of Fair Trade roses.

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Albert the movie star

It’s not often a supermarket plays a leading role in a film. But one of Ahold’s Albert supermarkets in the Czech Republic is the setting for a popular new feel-good movie.

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Customers enjoy VIP approach

Customers at Giant Foods and Stop & Shop are enjoying the VIP treatment. The stores’ Value Improvement Program (VIP) is delivering better prices, better quality and all-round value.

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Helping customers choose the best through better sourcing

We aim to make it easy for our customers to choose the best. This means listening carefully to their needs, and offering the best, most relevant products, at the best quality and the best prices that we can. Our recently-launched Next Generation Sourcing (NGS) program will help us do this even better.

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Doing right for the customer, doing right for the community

At Ahold, community involvement and charitable giving grows out of our customer focus.

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Making technology work for the customer

Busy lifestyles mean that our customers want shopping to be easy and convenient. In response, Ahold’s companies are increasingly embracing the use of technology, helping us provide the best service to our customers.

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Store that customers help to build

The customer is always at the heart of our business. At Albert Heijn's new generation store, however, the focus is on their local customer more than ever before.

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Joining forces at Stop and Shop/Giant

In 2004 two of Ahold's brands in the United States - Stop & Shop of Quincy, Massachusetts and Giant Food of Landover, Maryland - were integrated into one business arena.

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Camp Hill - A healthy experience from GIANT

GIANT's new concept store in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, underlines the commitment of all stores in the Ahold group to healthier food shopping. A shopping environment that not only offers healthy, nutritional products, but that radiates a feeling of freshness and wellbeing.

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