Voice of The Food Industry Blog

Truckers Can Serve as the Next Defense Against Human Trafficking

There are an estimated 50 million victims of human trafficking across the globe, which is why FMI is proud to support Truckers Against Trafficking in its mission to build a mobile army of transportation professionals combating human ...

How Retailers Can Take Back Seasonal GM Sales

If you’re going to do it, do it right. That phrase extends to many aspects of life and business. In the food retail industry, the advice especially resonates in category management, as retailers must determine what products to carry and how to best ...

Celebrating Our Supermarket Heroes

February 22nd marks the annual Supermarket Employee Day, a special day dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the hard-working individuals that keep supermarkets running. As a grocery store employer, this is your day to shine and show your ...

Ensuring a Best in Class Food Safety System

The FDA Food Code is a reflection of the alignment of stakeholders on food safety and represents the agency's best advice for a uniform system of provisions that address the safety and protection of food offered at retail and in food ...

Where Food and Technology Meet

While the competition and presentations at FMITech at Midwinter enlightened attendees to the latest and greatest our industry has to offer in technological advancements, the Lunch and Insights presentation by Laurie Demeritt of The Hartman Group ...

You’ve Stirred It Up! Now Let It Simmer.

The food industry put both its best foot forward and its best food forward at the 2023 Stir It Up! event. The closing event of the 2023 FMI Midwinter Executive Conference, this fundraiser for the FMI Foundation featured six kitchens pitting their ...

Five Ways To Be A Better Manager In The Food Industry

In 2021, the food retail industry experienced 48% turnover in their overall retail workforce. While retailers have engaged in a number of programs to decrease turnover such as offering better wages/salaries, improved benefits, training/skills ...

Looking Toward the Future with Food Safety Innovation

Technological advancement presents profound opportunities for the way the food industry operates. A perfect example of this is demonstrated by Walmart, this year’s recipient of the Food Safety Innovation ...

Table Stakes: A Resilient, Transparent Meat Supply Chain

The farm-to-fork path has taken some twists and turns over the past few years. One part of the route is a rougher haul, marked by often simultaneous crises. Another part of the path is being cleared to provide a better view from production to the ...

How GM Drives Store Profitability

If a rising tide lifts all boats, then general merchandise (GM) is a wave that’s helping retailers stay afloat and on course with bigger baskets and rings. According to Mark Deuschle, president of Denver-based GM manufacturer and distributor Navajo, ...

Your Customers Are In It For E.V.E.R.

It’s my belief that members join and retain their membership in FMI for four powerful reasons, or put a bit differently, members are in it for E.V.E....

How Technology is Redefining the Meat Case

While the backroom used to be where butchers made cuts by hand, there’s a different kind of cutting edge in today’s food retail meat business. Advanced technologies are changing the way meat is produced, processed and packaged, as well as handled ...

What You Need to Know about Modern Organized Retail Theft

Years ago, the industry also had a very different strategy for stopping someone attempting to take something from the store without purchasing it. At that time, we called it shoplifting, five-finger discount, or in the most severe sense, robbery or ...

When Work Feels Like Play

We are in the countdown to the FMI Foundation’s key fundraiser Stir It Up!, taking place Sunday evening, January 22, the last night of the FMI Midwinter Executive Conference. This event is fundamentally a cooking competition within the food industry,...

How GM, Household and HBC are Crucial to Total Store Collaboration in Inflationary Times

A successful total store experience for the consumer requires total store collaboration between the food retailer and its trading partners. That is especially important in today’s operating environment—when record-high inflation is the latest ...