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  • Food Retail Social Media Manager Interview: Amy Bailey with Festival Foods

    Oct 16, 2015
    In Wisconsin, family-owned Festival Foods social media manager Amy Bailey prides herself on using visual content for the company’s blog, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feeds, sharing the activities about their stores and communities. Amy provided ...

  • Red Tape, Recalls and Reducing Food Waste

    Oct 15, 2015
    Recently the Food Waste Reduction Alliance - lead by Food Marketing Institute, Grocery Manufacturers Association and National Restaurant Association – held a convening of representatives from the food industry, government agencies and non-government ...

  • Myth or Treat: Correcting Food Retail Misconceptions

    Oct 14, 2015
    The food retail industry is accessible and customer-service-based, which are positive attributes that sometimes make a supermarket a susceptible target for unsolicited criticism. FMI remains your spokesperson on the public relations challenges that ...

  • Grocers Doing Good

    Oct 13, 2015
    Pumpkin flavored everything is appearing on the shelves, Halloween costume debates are erupting, baseball season is winding down and football season is cranking up. It is definitely fall and that means it is time for FMI to once again shine the ...

  • Food Retail Social Media Manager Interview: Leah McGrath with Ingles

    Oct 5, 2015
    FMI research suggests that more and more food retailers are investing in the role of the supermarket registered dietitian (RD). As supermarkets transform into health care destinations, RDs remain critical resources to answer the demands of today’s ...

  • Use Data and Innovation to Match Resources with Need? Sure, We Can Do That

    Oct 1, 2015
    In one short decade, the partnership between the grocery industry and Feeding America has made perishables, such as meat, dairy, and produce much more common items on food bank shelves. This smart and seemingly simple solution is backed by the use ...

  • Food Retail Social Media Manager Interview: Abby Pemberton with Publix

    Sep 25, 2015
    FMI is starting a series of blog posts that interview social media managers from different food retail companies. We’ll ask questions that facilitate sharing of best practices and lessons learned. Our first post in the series is an interview with ...

  • Refreshed FoodKeeper App

    Sep 14, 2015
    Since the FoodKeeper launch in April more than 75,000 consumers have downloaded and used the service on their mobile phones or tablets. This refresh takes into account feedback from ...

  • Video: FMI's David Fikes Talks Changing Shopper Values

    Aug 6, 2015
    David Fikes, vice president of consumer and community affairs and communications with the Food Marketing Institute recently spoke to the National Press Foundation about how the values of today's shoppers are changing their shopping habits. Watch the ...

  • Top 5 Stories from FMI So Far This Year

    Jul 27, 2015
    With full inboxes and busy schedules, sometimes we miss things. That’s why it’s good to recap every now and then. With that in mind, here are the top five blog posts from FMI so far in ...

  • Navigating the Supermarket Myth Maze

    Jul 9, 2015
    Ever been in a disagreement with a colleague and when presenting his views, he launches into a tired old hydra-headed argument filled with exaggerations and misrepresentations that you’ve heard, refuted and dismissed many times before? I find it ...

  • Food Banks and Supermarkets: Natural Partners

    Jul 8, 2015
    Both food banks and supermarkets play vital roles in local communities, and now, more than ever before, we have joined forces to help make sure those who need food the most have access to it. The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Feeding America ...

  • The Productivity of Nice

    Jun 17, 2015
    Baseball great Leo Durocher once quipped, “Nice guys finish last,” offering a cultural assessment that a concern for others, putting other’s needs first, and being pleasantly agreeable somehow inhibited the ability to really compete effectively. ...

  • IdeaXchange: Will future food retailers curate values?

    Apr 6, 2015
    The words “The War on Science” emblazoned across the cover of the March 2015 National Geographic accomplished the editor's task and caught my attention. The lead article, expounding on those provocative words, explores five topics in current public ...

  • New Mobile App: Helping Shoppers Keep Food Fresh

    Apr 2, 2015
    Originally, the FoodKeeper was a publication developed by Cornell University’s Department of Food Science, FMI and USDA. The brochure contains valuable advice to help consumers understand the shelf life of products when stored in the pantry, ...