Voice of The Food Industry Blog

Photo Friday: Celebrating Family Meals and America's Potluck

FMI’s staff-lead program Join Us Making Progress (J.U.M.P.) and the FMI Foundation recently celebrated the 3rd annual J.U.M.P. Recipe Exchange, an event designed to highlight the importance of family meals in fostering connection and ...

10 Things Americans Have Learned from Co-hosting the 2026 World Cup

With 48 nations coming together, the World Cup celebrates the things – like a love of sport and shared food – that unites us ...

FMI Lab: Bobby Watts of Ahold Delhaize Talks AI and Commerce

I sat down with Bobby Watts from Ahold Delhaize in our FMI Lab to dig into this further and hear how cross-departmental teams can collaborate more effectively on retail media....

How Food Retailers Are Making Healthy Eating More Affordable and Achievable

Food retailers across the country are finding practical ways to make healthy choices easier, more affordable and more relevant to everyday shoppers. At the center of many of these efforts.....

Photo Friday: Guatemala Delegation

FMI recently welcomed representatives from the Guatemalan Chamber of Agriculture (Cámara del Agro), ASAZGUA and Anacafé Guatemala to FMI for an insightful discussion....

Telling the Stories That Uplift Communities Across the Food Industry

Every day, across neighborhoods nationwide, food retailers and suppliers quietly show up for their communities. A store manager organizes a food drive after a ...

The Race Toward Perfect Shipments

In grocery supply chain operations, “close enough” is becoming increasingly expensive. As retailers and wholesalers invest in warehouse automation, advanced receiving systems.....

The Number One Thing In-Store Shoppers Want

For grocery shoppers, store cleanliness is paramount. According to our U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2026 report, 73% of grocery shoppers want to shop in a clean, neat store....

Harnessing the Connecting Power of the Potluck

Some of my fondest and most vivid childhood memories spring from summertime family reunion gatherings that happened every few years in my dad’s ...

How to Boost Consumer Engagement in Private Brands

What if one of your strongest competitive advantages was already on your shelves? FMI's latest research suggests private brands are doing more than driving sales.....

Keeping Shoppers Feeling Safe

FMI's Asset Protection in Food Retail report shows that shoppers value the food industry's focus on safety, while pushing back on some theft deterrents....

Grocery Shoppers’ Summer Plans

Summer begins this coming week. Schools are letting out. The weather is heating up. How are grocery shoppers feeling? What are they planning for in the coming months?...

Beyond the Stadium: How Grocery Retailers Can Prepare for Large Sports Fan Gatherings

Sporting events (both at the stadium and the home watch parties) bring energy, pride and increasingly large influxes of out of town visitors. As fans travel to join the celebration.....

Reimagining the World of Retail Health at the Nourishing Change Conference

The 2026 Nourishing Change Conference challenged over 1000 leaders in retail, healthcare, technology, policy and innovation to “reimagine the world of retail health” to drive better outcomes.....

Rethinking Fresh Merchandising to Accelerate Shopper Experience

We expect elevated experiences in certain situations. A high-end restaurant. Premium seats at a big game. Those moments are designed to impress us. But sometimes the experiences.....