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Grocery Shopper Snapshot: Hispanic Edition

This brief report provides insight into Hispanic grocery shopping habits, including attitudes, behaviors and purchase drivers....

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2024

The food industry is experiencing enormous change. The latest version of The Food Retailing Industry Speaks relays many shifting developments and describes how the industry has worked hard to make progress in the face of all this change....

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Finding Value

Beyond price and quality, shoppers define value to include relevance, convenience and experience....

Supermarket Store and Department Manager Survey 2023

A store manager can make or break a grocery store, and the role has seen its share of change following the pandemic. This survey details store and department managers' job satisfaction, challengers, opportunities, and more....

Boardroom Volume 9

This journal discusses food industry supply chain disruption, labor shortages and workforce challenges, technology transformation, changing marketplace and societal dynamics, evolving consumer behaviors, and rising ESG expectations....

Second Chance Hiring: A Resource Guide

Through a series of best practices, industry examples and resources, this guide explores the benefits of a second chance hiring program and fosters support for those who are looking to implement the practice within their own company....

Best Practices for Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training Modules

This guide is a collection of FMI member wisdom on effective diversity, equity and inclusion modules, gathered through a survey on member practices and the resources they use to address DEI concerns....

Managerial Best Practices

This report explores managerial best practices at the store/warehouse level to help improve employee retention....

Hiring Refugees: A Resource Guide

Information on how to directly hiring refugees, sourcing product from refugee owned businesses, distribute and donate crucial resources or even support government policies that facilitate refugee resettlement....

Improving Employee Retention in the Grocery Industry

As the second in a three-part Gerald E. Peck Fellowship research series that explores workforce attractiveness in the food retail industry, this report explores the challenge of retaining employees and offers recommendations to increase retention....

Receipts from the Pandemic: Grocery Store Investments Amid COVID-19 and the Resulting Economics of an Essential Industry

This analysis quantifies the operational costs of actions food retailers took amid the COVID-19 pandemic....

Workforce Attractiveness in the Food Industry: How to Recruit Gen Z

This report shows the food industry, particularly food retailers, has an opportunity to showcase the variety of career options available to Gen Z....