Fresh Foods

2015 Year in Review: Top Stories in Sustainability and Fresh Foods

From hot topics like food waste to research insights into consumer shopping behavior pertaining to fresh foods, FMI’s sustainability- and fresh-food-related blogs offered actionable insights to help grocers improve and strengthen business operations ...

New Recordkeeping Requirements for Retailers that Grind Raw Beef Products

On Monday, December 14, 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released a final rule amending its recordkeeping regulations for all official establishments and retail stores that grind ...

Playing Supermarket Myth Whack-A-Mole

The rationale behind the myth busting web page is to provide our members with resources to confront the misperception being perpetuated every time they hear or see it, so we don’t have to play whack-a-mole on an ongoing basis. If we challenge the ...

Myth or Treat: Correcting Food Retail Misconceptions

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 ...

It’s A Bird! No A Plane! No An Apple?!

According to the recent Power of Produce research, I’m not alone in this careful selection of produce behavior. The report finds that in the produce purchasing decision, appearance and ripeness are more important than price for shoppers. I can ...

Top 5 Stories from FMI So Far This Year

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 ...

How Food Retailers Help Maintain the Produce Cold Chain

FMI had the opportunity to participate in a symposium at IFT 15 titled “Cold Chain for Produce Safety: The Status Quo and Technologies to Minimize Food Safety Risk.” For retailers, the produce department is a key differentiator along with other ...

How Do Customers Shop for Produce?

Have you ever had a bird’s-eye view of how people shop the produce aisle? Do they stick to their shopping list, purchase unplanned items, compare prices? What brings them into the store and helps them make a decision on produce once they are in the ...

In Their Own Words: Supermarket Chef Showdown Winners

Out of 295 recipes, 15 finalists where chosen to compete at FMI Connect, five went home winners and one is the reigning Grand Champion headed to Calabria, Italy for an all expense-paid culinary immersion program for two at the Italian Culinary ...

Produce Means Business

FMI released its inaugural report, The Power of Produce 2015 at FMI Connect, on changes in shoppers’ produce purchasing trends and behaviors at food retail. The new annual study features a fresh insight for the produce retail industry by ...

5 Fresh Workshops at FMI Connect

You’ve heard about the Fresh Pavilion at FMI Connect and the stories of some of the fresh exhibitors you can expect to see, but who will be talking about fresh at FMI Connect and what will they have to say? Here are five fresh speaker sessions you ...

Find Your Fresh Suppliers at FMI Connect

Retail and wholesale executives know that health-minded consumers continue to look for more than the standard fresh items in their supermarket— no longer just satisfied to go home with a rotisserie chicken in their shopping bags – and they are ...

The Freshest Pavilion at FMI Connect

FMI Connect is launching the first-ever Fresh Pavilion & Zone. The 13,000 retailers, wholesalers and trading partners at FMI Connect will be able to learn everything they need to know about fresh in the supermarket industry – all in one ...

From Seafood Expo: Industry Sings Out of Same Hymn Book

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Trend Spotting at Natural Products Expo West

With approximately 60,000 attendees trying to get into Anaheim convention Center for this year’s Natural Products Expo West, I couldn't help but feel that new trends and exciting products were waiting. Of course the expo could not start until Bob's ...