Education

Investing in Talent

As industry leaders, you face enormous challenges, and next to the financial burdens associated with running your businesses effectively and efficiently, you tell us that providing health care to your employees is paramount. The second-biggest ...

Power of Strategic Storytelling in Food Retail

Today, exceptional leadership and successful businesses depend on the ability to tell a story that compels organizations forward and harnesses the authentic connection between a brand and a customer. Strategic storytelling transcends company ...

Foster Peak Performance in the Food Retail Industry

As an industry, we rely on measuring peak performance through the traditional means of productivity, tactics, and sales, but what if you could reach peak performance in employees through providing a variety of professional and personal experiences, ...

Connecting with the Shopper to Crack Omnichannel Retailing

The demands on food retailing executives involved with information technology, e-commerce and marketing have never been greater, so how does a company make omnichannel retailing a vital part of its business plan?...

Why Transparency Isn’t Always Clear

What we need is practical, targeted clarity, which necessitates taking the time to find out what people want to know and then presenting it to them with lucid integrity. It’s with this notion that the 2017 edition of FMI’s U.S. Grocery Shopper ...

Critical Thinking for Critical Issues, In Critical Times

The world of food retail is always changing, so having the tools to make strategic adjustments and adapt requires the right talent, resources and a collaborative spirit.With that in mind FMI has designed four events in one week in one major city to ...

Breaking Barriers in Supply Chain Optimization

One of the biggest challenges for supply chain leaders remains, “How does the food retail industry enhance operational efficiencies?”...

The Need for Training in Food Retail

Our members continuously stress the need to get their people the training they need to be successful. FMI is working to fill the gaps for the grocery industry and demonstrate its’ attractiveness as a ...

Food Retailers: Seek out that Next Generation of Leaders

Food retailing is a diverse and remarkable industry that strives to make a difference in each local community it serves every day. The food retail industry employs more than 3.4 million individuals and brims with extremely talented individuals, ...

Are You a Grocery Trailblazer?

Statesmanship, humanitarianism and entrepreneurialism are qualities we associate with great leaders who help to cultivate corporate purpose. In the food retail industry, these attributes define the type of leader who can advance his or her career ...

Advice from FMI Store Manager Award Winners to Future Nominees: Brian Hayes

Brian Hayes, a store director for Super Saver in Lincoln, Nebraska, earned recognition as an outstanding store manager in 2015. As a previous winner, Hayes shared his advice with rising food ...

What Makes a Great Store Manager?

I’ve learned there’s no set equation of traits and qualities that make an outstanding store manager. In a single day, these hardworking individuals often wear many hats as they jump from project to project to serve their store and customers. Each ...

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 ...

Advice from FMI Store Manager Award Winners to Future Nominees

What does it take for a store manager to win FMI’s Store Manager Award? Previous winner, Charlynne Stunder, one of Save on Foods’ store managers in Vancouver, BC Canada shares her advice with rising leaders of the food ...

Photo Friday: Albertsons’ Southern Division Office in Fort Worth, TX

Last week, Cynthia Brazzel, director of member relations and advocacy for the western region at FMI, joined Cherie Phipps, director of the Retail Management Certificate Program at Western Association of Food Chains (WAFC), to promote the Retail ...