Voice of The Food Industry Blog

How Retail Media Networks Are Going from Emerging to Essential

Once considered an emerging tool for the digital elite, RMNs have moved firmly into the ...

Creating a Sustainable Food Safety Solution: Natural Choice Foods Receives FMI’s 2025 Food Safety Innovation Award

NCF has earned FMI’s 2025 Food Safety Innovation Award for its unique and impactful solution to address food waste and food safety by creating a closed-loop system for repackaging and redistributing excess food from major food manufacturers. ...

Rethinking Fresh Foods Packaging for a Sustainable Future

As a fresh foods merchandising expert, I’ve spent years walking produce aisles and seafood counters, analyzing what makes a shopper reach for a package or walk right past ...

Conditioning For a Growth Mindset in Grocery

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2025 is full of essential insights and data points that frame what is happening in the industry and provide key benchmarks for FMI members to measure themselves ...

Adapting Fresh Foods Narratives for Shifting Wellness Priorities

The food industry has been emphasizing health and nutrition in its messaging for many years now, and you might wonder, is there anything new left to say?...

The Path to Supplier Development

FMI's Supplier Development committee exists to bring together the practitioners who help nurture and develop small, local and diverse vendors to be able to deliver the quantity and meet the quality standards of our ...

What a Golf Ball Can Teach Us About Grocery Retail

As grocery retailers rethink the shopper journey, one thing is clear: the future belongs to those who blend convenience with personalization....

Tech at the Table: How We're Navigating the Future of Food Retail

At FMI, I've had a front-row seat to how technology is reshaping our industry with practical tools that are helping retailers and suppliers work smarter, faster and more collaboratively....

The Grocery Supply Chain Wake-Up Call You Can’t Ignore

If you’ve worked in the grocery supply chain for more than five minutes, you know the only constant is change. But lately? That change feels more like a tidal wave....

Unlock the Power of Onsite and Social Media in Your RMN: Why Stages 2-4 Matter Now

In FMI's Retail Media Master Class, we'll walk through maturity models, readiness checklists, and real-world activation examples to help you bring your retail media program to ...

The Trivial Truth about Food and Fireworks on July 4

FMI hopes you have a safe, fun, and filling Fourth of July celebration. We hope you and your family enjoy safely celebrating this historic day with traditional fare and festivities....

Community Uplift Awards: Celebrating Food for the Greater Good

FMI created Community Uplift Awards 35 years ago to recognize and celebrate food companies offering programs and services that give back to their neighborhoods and communities....

FMI’s Legal Conference Heads to the Heart of Santa Fe

Set against the historic and culturally rich backdrop of Santa Fe, FMI’s 2025 Legal & Regulatory Compliance Conference offers a focused environment for legal, regulatory and compliance.....

The Power of Sharing a Meal: Building Community in Everyday Life

FMI's staff program, Join Us Making Progress (J.U.M.P.), celebrated its second recipe exchange event as part of our support for the Family Meals Movement. We stepped away from our desks and connected over lunch....

Building Smarter From Aisle Layout to AI

Uncertainty is no longer the exception—it’s the environment we operate in. From tariffs and supply chain delays to evolving energy and building regulations, today’s grocery retail leaders are.....