ADUSA (Ahold Delhaize) scored an 80 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, the company increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Ahold Delhaize forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The company provides trainings on intercultural awareness and unconscious bias for its employees. Ahold Delhaize subsidiaries Giant Food and Peapod Digital have made commitments and campaigns to engage in more Pride-related advocacy. Giant Foods, Food Lion, Stop & Shop, and Peapod Digital Labs signed an open letter in support of the Equality Act, a controversial bill. For 2021 and 2022 Pride Month, Peapod Digital Labs have posted press releases encouraging doing business specifically with LGBT-owned brands and suppliers. ADUSA former CEO, Chris Lewis, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. Stop & Shop’s CEO, Gordon Reid, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. Giant Food gave $15,000 to the Capital Pride Alliance during the 2022 DC Pride parade, and donated $12,500 to the Can't Cancel Pride 2022 fundraiser. In 2020, Food Lion made significant donations a variety of racial justice organizations, which included the National Urban League. In 2021, Peapod Digital Labs made a $7,500 donation to Campus Pride, a group aimed to expand LGBT causes on college campuses. Peapod Digital Labs is also a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Stop & Shop donated over $80,000 to LGBTQ organizations including to GLAAD and The Trevor Project. In addition to the LGBTQ donations, Stop & Shop created Pride gear and donated it at Pride Parades. For these reasons, Ahold Delhaize receives a High Risk rating.