Union officials have pointed to a recent financial report from Ahold Delhaize, Stop & Shop’s Dutch parent company, showing more than $2 billion in profit in 2018 as evidence the company is doing fine and doesn’t need to cut costs. However, sales growth in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2018 was slower than in Europe: Sales rose 2.7 percent over the same quarter in 2017 and increased 3.3 percent in the Netherlands.