Voice of The Food Industry Blog

Fresh Produce Potlucks: A Delicious Choice Backed by Research

The demand for fresh produce is growing. Fresh fruit and vegetable sales hit an all-time high of $92.3 billion, proving that more people are recognizing the benefits of eating ...

Who’s Who: 2025 Store Manager Award Nominees

Each year, nominations stream in from peers and food retail companies for FMI’s Store Manager Awards, highlighting store managers who exemplify dedication, innovation and resilience.....

Celebrating Excellence: Food Safety Auditing Scholarship Recipients at the 2025 SQF Unites Conference

Each year, the FMI Foundation and SQFI invite 15 Food Safety Auditing Scholarship recipients to the event to gain key industry connections, soak up knowledge about different elements of food safety processing, and connect with their fellow ...

5 Trends in Food Retail Asset Protection

Arguably, the role of asset protection professionals has changed significantly over the last few years. These leaders must be versatile as they face new and similar threats daily....

Why The Food Industry Should Engage with Edition 10 of the SQF Code

Food retailers and suppliers are uniquely positioned to provide critical feedback. You understand the challenges of food safety from supplier to shelf to refine a program that benefits the entire food supply ...

Heatwave Challenges: How the Cold Supply Chain Keeps Food Moving

Imagine a truck filled with fresh seafood leaving a dock in Florida, bound for a grocery store in Kansas. The driver, well aware of the Spring season’s rising heat.....

Grocery Shopper Snapshot: How are Consumers Feeling?

As grocery prices rise and food concerns grow, shoppers are adapting in real-time. Almost eight out of 10 say they feel in control of their household expenditures on ...

Processing, Packaging and Distribution: How to Protect the Food Supply Chain

Companies of every size must share cyber resources and information to bolster the modern food supply chain and empower all participants to better defend against growing ...

Three Essential Ways to Advance Fresh Foods

Fresh food is essential to driving shopper loyalty and grocery retail success. It is front and center in food industry differentiation strategies....

Technology Transformation in the Grocery Industry

The grocery industry's future is undeniably digital. The 10th anniversary edition of Boardroom Journal details these innovations as catalysts for reimagining how we engage with customers, manage operations and create ...

5 Ways We Celebrated Supermarket Employee Day

Supermarket Employee Day, observed annually on February 22, is a special occasion dedicated to honoring the essential workers that play a vital role in feeding families and enriching ...

How the Food Industry Can Navigate Threat Intelligence

In today’s rapidly evolving risk landscape, the food industry faces a range of security threats, from cyberattacks and supply chain disruptions to organized retail crime and fraud....

Improving Food Access, Affordability and Health

FMI member initiatives across the food industry are working to support and enhance federal nutrition programs to improve access to nutritious food and build healthy eating habits in scalable ...

How Grocery Shoppers View Truth

Each year, Merriam-Webster's word experts pick the word of the year—a term that is frequently and widely used in public discourse and across the media landscape. It will likely come as no surprise to you that the 2024 word of the year was ...

Raising the Steaks: Innovate, Adapt and Succeed at AMC 2025

The Annual Meat Conference (AMC) is where retailers step back from the daily grind to focus on the bigger picture—where the meat industry is headed, what consumers want and how to stay competitive....