Voice of Food Retail Blog

Consumers Consider Ingredients In The Food Products They Buy, But Two-Thirds Are Challenged To Decipher

Just about half (49%) of the 1,003 primary household shoppers surveyed report they follow a health-related program that informs the way they shop for food....

Business Continuity Planning in the Digital Age

In a world that’s quickly moving from hard-copy binders to intranet portals, new opportunities and challenges arise for financial officers evaluating their ...

Online Grocery Delivery: A Commitment to Keep Food Safe

As consumer demand to purchase groceries through e-commerce platforms increases, retailers and wholesalers must continue developing collaborative omnichannel models, with e-commerce experts, to improve operational efficiency, meet consumer demands ...

A Grocerytalk Conversation with Ocado

Tim Steiner, co-founder and CEO of the UK-based retailer, attributes Ocado’s success to understanding the online shopper, as he says, “they like to shop with us whenever, wherever, which is what digital engagement allows us to do....

Are We Genetically Predisposed to Misunderstand Gene Engineering?

Food retail venues tend to be the stage on which most food related dramas get played out. If there is controversy about a product, a production method or an ingredient, the questions often get raised at the point of retail – where the product meets ...

Even Albert Einstein Was Confused By His Taxes

Tax Day 2018 is finally here! For those of you who have your paperwork filed and taxes paid, congratulations. For those of you still trying to get this done – or worse yet, filing for an extension – hang in there, for this too shall ...

Photo Friday: Associated Wholesale Grocers Showcase

FMI recently attended the Associated Wholesale Grocers Showcase and Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, as part of membership’s efforts to increase exposure of FMI’s programs and services. In addition to a booth, FMI also provided thought ...

Re-Launching the SafeMark® State Food Safety Training Requirements Map

The FMI Center for Retail Food Safety and Defense reinvigorated the SafeMark® State Training Requirements Map to help food managers and food handlers more easily discover their specific state and local training ...

Hazardous Waste: What Does This Mean For Food Retail?

You may not think the food retail industry manages hazardous materials; however, if not handled properly, everyday items like bleach, florescent bulbs, aerosol cans, batteries and expired pharmaceuticals can be considered ...

Meet the 2018 FMI Store Manager Awards Finalists

As the grocery industry continues to navigate a digital transformation, store managers will be crucial in translating the digital world to employees creating meaningful shopping experiences for ...

Retooling Your Resources For National Family Meals Month

This past September, American Heart Association (AHA) promoted National Family Meals Month™(NFMM) through their Healthy For Good program. The Healthy For Good movement aims to help people create sustainable, healthy ...

On Display at Natural Products Expo West: Fruit Jerky, Drinkable Vegetables, Overnight Oats - You Had to Be There

When my colleague, Julie Pryor, and I set off for Natural Products Expo West a few weeks ago, we couldn’t imagine the plethora of innovation, entrepreneurism, and the variety of “only what you need” products we would ...

Seven Consumer Food Trends from “The Future of Food: New Realities for the Industry"

Disruptors are pervasive in our industry. Although food retailing has already changed dramatically in the last few years, it is certain that the industry will look quite different in the near future. That change is constant and is accelerating. ...

Partnerships with Purpose in Risk and Safety

FMI's Doug Baker, Vice President, Industry Relations, had an opportunity to sit down for a conversation about NRF Protect 2018 with Bob Moraca, vice president of loss prevention for National Retail Federation (NRF), concerning our previously ...

Small Wins Prove Advantageous

On March 23, when President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion fiscal 2018 spending bill, he also signed into law an important provision in the bill that will save FMI members millions of dollars in SNAP processing fees every year....