Asset Protection

Food Defense Superheroes: Suppliers and Food Processors to the Rescue

Arguably, there’s no greater hero to a company in the midst of a disaster or terrorist threat than those who are prepared to handle an emergency and shield your company’s assets from danger. ...

Shrink is a $45.2 Billion Problem

The 2016 National Retail Security Survey, conducted in collaboration by the National Retail Federation and the University of Florida, is a great snapshot into the environment for asset protection. Last year’s report revealed that retailers’ ...

Food Defense: Cross Your T’s and Dot Your I’s

If ever there was a time to turn up the dial on asset protection, it is now. While there are any number of issues that keep those charged with asset protection up at night, perhaps no topic is more vital to your company’s customers and investors ...

Crisis at Your Store Door

The newly revamped Audit/Safety/Asset Protection (ASAP) Conference, scheduled March 20-22 at Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, is the one event this year designed to give those charged with creating company safety plans, store crisis plans and ...

Visa and MasterCard Delay EMV Liability: A Win for Retail

No matter how big or small, when merchants get a victory, we run with it. That is what last week’s announcement from Visa and MasterCard is—a win for retail. The two biggest card brands announced they are delaying EMV implementation from the ...

Are You A Digitally Enabled and Engaged Retailer?

We want answers to those questions to better enable our members, which is why FMI is embarking on a multidimensional, multi-year digital shopper and digitally enabled retailing journey with Nielsen. We’ll explore the business imperatives that are ...

D-SNAP and Other Emergency Feeding Operations

With historic flooding affecting parts of southern Louisiana, West Virginia and other ongoing disaster-related events in the U.S., FMI wants to ensure your companies are aware of resources available during times of great ...

Embracing a New Wave of Information Technology

The legislative achievements last week on GMO have been a win for the value chain in giving food makers and sellers the option to disclose information in a flexible manner, so it was disconcerting that the debate on GMO included accusations that the ...

What Grocery Stores Can Learn from Pokémon Go

Now I know that you might be thinking what does a video game have to do with my food retail business? Well, besides the fact that the same augmented reality technology is already being used in the industry to help educate store employees about food ...

What Does Innovation Mean to You?

For some, innovation is the latest technology or gadget that promises to transform the way we all live our lives and do business. For others, innovation is that big idea that solves both a business problem and a consumer need. And then there are ...

Robots, Robots and More Robots

Robots are a part of both business and personal lives. Currently, we see robotics primarily in manufacturing in our industry, but what can we look forward to seeing in our offices and grocery stores in the near future? We’re bringing a few of these ...

Solar-Powered Oven and More at FMI Connect

Many of this year’s CES Innovation Award winners involve food-related technology—think The Jetsons’ kitchen. We want food retailers to be able to experience some of these new innovations before they become common place in the household. That’s why ...

Your Own Personal Tech Help Desk at FMI Connect

Like every other industry sector, technology has transformed the food retail business over the last 20 to 30 years, and will continue to do so, probably forever. Just as your customers are constantly adopting the latest electronic gadgets, you too ...

A Book Review of FMI Connect Keynote Speaker Steve Case’s The Third Wave

With Steve Case, entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of America Online, scheduled to speak in a few weeks at FMI Connect, I picked up his new book for a sneak peek at what words of wisdom a pioneer of the internet might offer today’s food retail ...

Graduating Students Take the Food Industry into the Future

Students delivered their capstone presentations in March, and two teams were selected to deliver again at the mid-April Western Association of Food Chains (WAFC) conference in Honolulu, HI. All of the topics demonstrated the level of innovation and ...