Technology

When AI Shapes the Grocery Basket, What Counts as Growth?

Somewhere, an omnichannel shopper is asking an AI assistant to plan meals for the week, accommodate dietary preferences and suggest products that fit within a household budget....

Understanding Why Food Industry Professional Development Matters for Success

FMI offers a portfolio of annual events and training programs tailored specifically for food retail professionals, designed to maintain a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving ...

Grocery Loyalty Programs Help Shoppers Save

Grocery loyalty programs are just one way that retailers provide savings and value, offering shoppers access to digital coupons, rewards and personalized incentives based on their shopping preferences....

Meet the FMItech Pitch Class of 2027

Today, FMI announced the FMItech Pitch Class of 2027, which includes six emerging technology companies from the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, reflecting the increasingly global scope of food retail ...

Why Are Mid-Sized Retailers Poised To Be the Food Industry’s Most Interesting Technology Innovators?

FMI’s 2026 State of Technology report reveals that retailers operating between 11 and 100 stores are often outperforming expectations in some of the industry's most important.....

From Signal to Action

Technology adoption across the retail food industry is accelerating. But as this year’s 2026 State of Technology report makes clear, the more important question is.....

What Food Industry Leaders Listen for in a Technology Pitch

For emerging technology companies, a successful pitch to food industry leaders starts with solving a meaningful business problem and clearly demonstrating business value....

Building the Business Case for Robotic Piece-Picking

Grocery margins are thin. Climbing fuel costs, tightened labor costs and every inefficiency in the network, from the warehouse floor to the last mile, show up on the P&L ...

Five Things to Know About the 2027 FMItech Pitch Competition

The FMItech Pitch Competition gives emerging technology companies the opportunity to present their solutions directly to food industry leaders. Applications close September 5, 2026....

How CPG Product Suppliers Can Put FMI’s Retail Media Framework to Work

The FMI U.S. Retail Media Measurement Standards and Glossary gives CPG product suppliers a common framework to ask better questions, evaluate performance and compare results with more ...

What Happens to Grocery Loyalty When AI Shapes the Decision

As more grocery shoppers use AI agents, protected preferences could matter more than repeat purchase decisions....

FMI Lab: Bobby Watts of Ahold Delhaize Talks AI and Commerce

I sat down with Bobby Watts from Ahold Delhaize in our FMI Lab to dig into this further and hear how cross-departmental teams can collaborate more effectively on retail media....

How Grocers, Wholesalers and Food Retailer CFOs Should Read Retail Media

FMI’s new retail media framework gives grocers, fresh food and private brand leaders, as well as CFOs, a credible way to read the numbers both in the store and inside the budget ...

GroceryLab: Advancing the Art and Science of Grocery

At its core, GroceryLab is designed to help us address one fundamental challenge: How we better serve consumers by improving the art and science of producing, delivering and selling grocery products....

Human Connection Is Grocery Infrastructure

As ecommerce grows, AI-enabled shopping expands and agentic commerce begins to emerge, more of the grocery journey will be shaped by digital systems before a shopper enters the store. That shift makes the physical experience more important, not less....