Voice of The Food Industry Blog

Future Leaders eXperience by the Numbers

The Future Leaders eXperience addresses one of the food industry's most challenging emerging issues—the workforce. Here are some fast facts that offer a sneak peek into who’s attending and what the program entails....

How Feeding Assistance Programs Continue to be Resilient in Challenging Times

FMI has actively pursued the extension of P-EBT as it has proven to effectively reach children who would typically receive free or reduced school lunches, but are missing these meals due to their schools being closed or operating with reduced hours ...

A Rollercoaster Ride for The Meat Department in 2020

The past six months has been so “unprecedented” that FMI and NAMI decided to break our trend of annual reports to conduct a The Power of Meat: Midyear 2020 Edition to take a fresh look at what was happening in the meat industry from the shopper’s ...

Prioritizing Fresh Sustainability Despite Pandemic Challenges: FMI FreshForward Recap

It might be logical to think the fresh industry would have put sustainability on the back burner during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in reality, many industry leaders never departed from their sustainability goals in the face of extreme hurdles. ...

FMI SafeMark® Offers Remote CFPM Assessment Tool

FMI is proud to strengthen food safety education and culture across the entire retail industry, and we are delighted to support our members in keeping the food supply ...

Getting Coin Moving Cannot Be an Old Adage

As a member of the U.S. Coin Task Force, we supported the development of a new resource that retailers, banks and consumers can use to help #getcoinmoving. Much of the retailer toolkit includes ideas and best practices used by FMI retail members....

L.A.S.T: A Tool for De-Escalation

How does a grocery store employee communicate with shoppers, particularly when they are agitated? What should they do when they observe shoppers calling one another out for failure to comply with these requirements? How should the grocery associate ...

The Food Industry Celebrates Family Meals Month

The food industry is rallying around National Family Meals Month™. Here are some of the MANY activities we’ve seen encouraging families to make the most of their time around the ...

2020: The Year of the Female Candidate

There are a record number of female candidates across the aisle in both the House and Senate who are gearing up for election....

Embrace Education as a Cornerstone of Social Justice

Our essential industry has a responsibility to ensure that our practices foster economic opportunity and racial equity. We need equitable programs that catalyze a stronger, more sustainable future for everyone. One program that meets this criteria ...

So, How Does America Feel about All These Family Meals?

COVID-19 has certainly changed our approach to family meals and perhaps reshaped our attitude about preparing them, but has it affected the benefits and how we perceive them? We wanted to know, so the FMI Foundation funded research to find out and ...

It’s Time to Better Connect the Fresh Supply Chain

Improved data, analytics and visibility are essential to better connect the industry and make us more prepared for whatever lies ahead. That was a key message from speakers at FMI FreshForward....

Why Do Shoppers “Shop Around?”

What is it that drives grocery shoppers to “shop around?” For many grocery shoppers it is private or store brands. Private brands, according to Trends, are a key driver of perceptions that the store meets a shopper’s needs. Grocery stores that ...

A Work of Majesty and Awe

This Labor Day, I am grateful for the thousands of grocery workers who day-in and day-out pay attention to the details of their work, who maintain the discipline of devoted sacrifice and service to their communities, and who overcome fear and ...

FMI & CART Launch TechTalk Series

We believe with the ongoing and accelerating growth of digital/ecommerce including both omnichannel and pure play, as well as increasing labor costs will radically alter retail profit and loss statements. FMI sees the above technologies as both ...