May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and therefore the perfect time to announce FMI’s Family Meals Movement new partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization ...
The food retail industry continues to battle an obstacle course of issues, including the pandemic/endemic; supply chain challenges; inflation; domestic tragedies; and the ramifications of a war in Ukraine. With all this turmoil, it is comforting to ...
At our weekly staff meeting, one of my colleagues lamented that she went grocery shopping over the weekend and spent more than she usually does despite buying less food. She is not alone. In the first quarter of this year, shoppers cut back on the ...
Another tragic shooting has befallen our industry in recent days and left us both heart-broken and in search of answers to that perennial question – what motivates this violent behavior? As we ponder the state of a society in which such acts occur, ...
According to the dictionary a disruption is a “disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.” Considering the past few years of rapid change, grocery tech industry has certainly been ...
We all need a little ray of sunshine these days, especially those who have been on the frontlines these many months keeping grocery stores open, encouraging employees and supporting local communities through ups and downs. FMI’s Store Manager Awards ...
Customers are passionate about sustainability and expect industry to lead the way in developing more efficient, responsible, and circular packaging. To assist companies in developing their own strategy for sustainable packaging, FMI developed the ...
FMI's Elizabeth Tansing and Mike Green joined a number of FMI members in meeting with Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to discuss ways to lower the cost of doing business in the state and getting more Virginians back to ...
Dr. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing the CRISPR-Cas9 technology that revolutionized the genome editing process, making high-precision changes to genes ...
The level of excitement felt like it was off the charts. FMI recently marked an important milestone in the return to normalcy by hosting our in-person Midwinter Executive Conference in Florida, preceded by our Fresh Foods Leadership Council ...
It has been observed that the present is nothing but the instant where the past collides with the future and for it to be productive you must both know where you’ve been and where you want to ...
Contrary to the Rolling Stones hit song released in 1965 [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction, it seems FMI membership is a hit with members according to the 2022 FMI Member Satisfaction ...
“Your future starts today.” These words may ring hollow to those of us who assign them to the trash bin of clichés, but to the incoming class of FMI’s 2022 Future Leaders eXperience, this oft-quoted phrase is both figurately and literally true. ...
We will be measuring the magnitude of COVID-19’s impact on our lives for many years to come. Some of that is because we will need some distance to fully comprehend the breadth and depth of even the most obvious changes the pandemic wrought. ...