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 ...
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 ...
Last week at the FMI Energy & Store Development Conference (ESD) there was a clear theme that permeated many of the presentations: sustainability. Consumers are becoming increasingly more focused on sustainability. And grocery stores are listening ...
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 ...
The industry committed to work with government and the private sector to help achieve the goal of reducing food waste in the United States by 50 percent over the next 15 years. My remarks at this event emphasized that the food retail industry takes ...
We've all got them. Containers pushed to the back of the refrigerator, cans in the pantry providing the foundation of the tottering lego of food items on the shelves and perfectly good mystery packages of food whose original purpose has long been ...
Innovation gave us the barcode, self-checkout and click-and-collect. As we look to the overarching, complex issue that is food waste, innovation holds the key to solutions that address this conundrum from multiple facets. Here are three, out of the ...
Product tracing used to be something we needed when things went wrong – when there was a recall or a food safety investigation. But now, product tracing has gone mainstream and has benefits well beyond food safety. ...
Food waste has real power. I recently had the opportunity to witness the difference food waste can make to not only a community, but also our environment. A few weeks ago, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, which was created by FMI, GMA and National ...
We’re hearing a lot of buzz about sustainable sourcing lately, but what is it? Sustainable sourcing of commodities or finished goods extends beyond traditional cost and supply metrics and ensures that the economic, environmental and social aspects ...
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, ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently recognized the accomplishments of participants, including grocery retailers Kroger and Shop Rite of New Jersey, in EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge and WasteWise program for reducing food loss by ...
Lately, there is an incredible escalation of interest about how we will provide food security for the 9 billion people we’ll need to feed in by 2050. FMI has collected information and opinions from sustainable agriculture, food security and food ...
When I was a kid, I lived in a home that had very limited resources. I remember my mom washing out and reusing sandwich bags for our lunches, and insisting we ate every single bite on our plates. Leftovers were always remade into clever dishes for ...
View a series of infographics that capture key findings of a new report, the 2014 Analysis of U.S. Food Waste Among Manufacturers, Retailers and Restaurants. The infographics offer a quick view of some of the differences found in three industry ...