Research

How Private Brands are Shaping the Grocery Shopping Experience

This year’s Power of Private Brands 2024: What's Ahead for Shoppers and Private Brands report paints a very positive picture about consumer perspectives and buying behaviors, with shoppers increasingly choosing stores based on the availability and ...

Speaks Report Spotlights Momentum on Top 5 Health & Well-being Strategies

The newly released 2024 FMI Food Retailing Industry Speaks report provides insights from the industry perspective around growing challenges, positive developments, and innovative strategies. A continued focus on nutrition, health and well-being is ...

Gen Z: The Online Generation

Familiarity with digital touchpoints, paired with a desire for efficiency, makes online shopping a necessity rather than a choice for meeting my grocery ...

Spotlight: Nutrition Experts Reach Consumers with Science-Based Tech Tools

Registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) are working behind the scenes to ensure that credible information and evidence-based messaging is reaching consumers using a wide variety of channels. This new FMI video captures the role that technology ...

SOS: Grocery Shopping Trending Alert

Grocery shopping trends today are influenced by everyone. I focus on items that provide maximum health and well-being with minimum prep ...

How to Make Private Brands Even More Powerful

FMI’s newly released Power of Private Brands 2024: What's Ahead for Shoppers and Private Brands report identifies upbeat shopper perceptions and buying behaviors, based on a national consumer ...

Gen Z Shopping Habits: Insights from a Mom and Marketer

Gen Z is more likely than the average shopper (45% of Gen Z vs 29% overall) to use their phone for making grocery lists, whether through text messages, SMS, email or ...

Having People Over: How Friends and Food Transformed My Solo Living Adventure

With a change in my household composition and plenty of love to give, my friends and I commenced a dinner party rotation. From vegetarian nights to soup swaps, each host offers an opportunity to explore new ...

Connecting the Science of Food and Nutrition to Health

We are excited to share a comprehensive one-page infographic to support industry-wide nutrition and health initiatives, to bring together science-based guidance on food, portions and ...

Fresh Perspectives: Gen Z's Approach to Meat, Seafood and Produce Shopping

This initial installment in our new blog series on Gen Z grocery shopping habits will take a closer look at motivations and influences in the produce, meat and seafood ...

Unlocking Fresh Potential: The Power of Produce

In a world where health and well-being reign supreme, the importance of fresh produce in our daily lives cannot be overstated. As a long-time champion of the fresh foods industry, I've been privy to invaluable insights regarding the pivotal role ...

Lifestyle Shifts Shape the Way We're Eating

FMI members have the resources and knowledge to innovate foodservice options. Our latest research exploration identifies ways our industry should be refining how we communicate solutions that align with shoppers' changing ...

How to Help Shoppers Celebrate with Meat

According to the Power of Meat 2024, nine in 10 shoppers are willing to spend a little extra on meat and poultry. We see holidays (45%), special occasions (37%) and cookouts or entertaining (35%) among the major reasons shoppers are willing to spend ...

Three Tried and True Ways to Drive Seafood Sales

The seafood department has been a bit of a conundrum lately. During the COVID-19 pandemic seafood sales were up, but now we’re seeing seafood sales back to 2019 levels. The roller coaster may cause a seafood merchandiser to scratch their head, but ...

How Have Your Eating Occasions Changed?

This report strives to identify new opportunities for the food industry as eating occasions ...