Health and Well-being

Balancing Sugar and Science with Safety and Choice

Recent reports on aspartame are potentially causing confusion among consumers as they seek solutions for maintaining taste while making healthful choices, including efforts to reduce added sugars and/or including non-nutritive ...

Photo Friday: President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition

FMI attended the first in-person meeting of the newly appointed President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, to support their important mission to engage and empower all Americans to adopt a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical ...

Celebrating a MyPlate Birthday to Positively Impact Community Health

I love a good celebration. Particularly one that includes good food, amazing people and a solid commitment. To properly celebrate MyPlate's 12th Birthday, USDA and the Food and Nutrition Service’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) ...

Connecting with Customers on Nutrition and Health in the Grocery Store

Food retailers are connecting with customers and communities on nutrition and health by meeting people where they are, right in the grocery store, and empowering them to take education into action. When we have a better understanding of how the ...

Share Progress: Working Together on Hunger, Nutrition and Health

With dedicated day-to-day operations across the food industry, we know that FMI members are working hard to achieve these goals related to food donations and nutrition messaging for consumers. Now it is time to band together to gather metrics, ...

Northgate Market in Cooking Up Change in the Community

Sometimes we don’t really grasp how one program, grounded by a local grocery store, and supported by an entire community, can impact the lives of so many until we get a chance to see that impact firsthand. What an honor when Northgate Gonzalez ...

This National Nutrition Month Become a MyPlate Partner

March is also the perfect time to join together with USDA to help promote the food groups included in MyPlate. For over a decade, USDA has collaborated with the MyPlate National Strategic Partners, a varied group of companies and organizations all ...

Promoting Food Safety at the Grocery Store

When we talk about food as medicine and the role that food plays in encouraging overall health and well-being, we need to also talk about the fundamental underlying idea of keeping food safe and promoting food safety for consumers. Across the ...

Drumroll Please: Introducing the 2023 Class of FMI Store Manager Awards Nominees

In addition to celebrating the hardworking people who make up our industry, we want to pay special attention to the store managers who are the heartbeat of local supermarkets across the globe. These devoted leaders embody their company’s vision and ...

When Work Feels Like Play

We are in the countdown to the FMI Foundation’s key fundraiser Stir It Up!, taking place Sunday evening, January 22, the last night of the FMI Midwinter Executive Conference. This event is fundamentally a cooking competition within the food industry,...

3 Easy Ways to Jumpstart Your Plans for Supermarket Employee Day 2.22.23

There are more than 40,000 stores that sell food and grocery items in the U.S. alone. Millions of supermarket employees come to work daily to keep shelves stocked and to provide communities with essential services that help them survive and ...

Top-5 Reasons the Grocery Store Is a Destination for Health and Well-being

The grocery store has evolved as a true destination for nutrition, health and well-being. With registered dietitians working across the industry, food retailers and food manufacturers deliver on the unique opportunity to provide not only what ...

Thanksgiving, the Consummate Family Meal and Beyond

Thanksgiving is the consummate family meal. It bears all the nutritional, emotional, mental, and social merits that are accrued when we gather at table sharing a common need of physiological substance, and surprisingly discover that our minds and ...

Where Do Shoppers Look for Plant-based Foods and Beverages In-Store?

A few years ago, several meat alternative companies made headlines with one small change—placing their products alongside traditional meat counterparts in the meat section. A debate ensued that continues today—where should plant-based foods and ...

Time for Dessert: Placing the Cherry atop National Family Meals Month

The end of September has arrived and so too has the close of this year’s National Family Meals Month™. Seven years after its inception in 2015, this wholesome concept has grown into an impactful nationwide movement that encourages togetherness, ...