Webinars

Our webinars include presentations from grocery industry experts while offering insights and education. Did you miss one of our webinars? Watch any time with our webinar recording archive below.

Upcoming Webinars

  • Webinar

    Digital Dialogues on Racial Justice, Inclusion and Diversity (Part V)

    • Monday, September 13, 2021 (1pm - 2pm US/Eastern)
    Kevin Brown, Principal - Digital Transformation and Intelligent Automation, Ernst & Young, and Natasha Miller Williams, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Ferrara. Kevin and Natasha will discuss how food industry leaders can promote productive, transparent conversations and meaningful progress. The webcast is the fifth in a series as part of the new Racial Justice, Inclusion and Diversity Initiative from The Center for Food Integrity (CFI) and FMI, the Food Industry Association. The Digital Dialogues series features food industry leaders as part of the broader initiative of CFI and FMI to promote food industry engagement on race, inclusion and diversity and prompt action toward meaningful and measurable progress.
  • Webinar

    Store Operations Series: The Concept of Flow and Focus

    • Tuesday, September 14, 2021 (1pm - 2pm US/Eastern)
    Join us for The Concept of Flow and Focus. This session will demonstrate how to better manage the FLOW of shoppers from entering into the store to the checkout, and how to control their FOCUS on items we want to sell, in the optimum order we would like to sell them.
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    National Family Meals Month Lunch and Learn (Part II, American Heart Association)

    • Wednesday, September 15, 2021 (12:30pm - 1pm US/Eastern)
    The FMI Foundation will be hosting a series of National Family Meals Month lunch and learn opportunities throughout the month of September to help the food retail industry stay strong with family meals! These twice-the-information in half-the-time webinars will be hosted on Wednesdays at 12:30pm eastern time. The 30-minute webinars will include some time for Q&A. The second webinar will be cohosted with Family Meals partner, the American Heart Association. and will shine a light on the findings in AHA's white paper: Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (ahajournals.org).
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    National Family Meals Month Lunch and Learn (Part III, Barbara Baron)

    • Wednesday, September 22, 2021 (12:30pm - 1pm US/Eastern)
    The FMI Foundation will be hosting a series of National Family Meals Month lunch and learn opportunities throughout the month of September to help the food retail industry stay strong with family meals! These twice-the-information in half-the-time webinars will be hosted on Wednesdays at 12:30pm eastern time beginning on September 8th. The 30-minute webinars will include some time for Q&A. The third webinar showcases Barbara Barron, RD, a noted family meals dietitian taking a fresh look at the benefits of family meals and discussing creative ways to engage consumers so they can maximize the extraordinary power of table time shared with loved ones.
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    The Food as Medicine Opportunity at Retail

    • Thursday, September 23, 2021 (1pm - 2pm US/Eastern)
    FMI and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation will dive into the latest research on perceptions of Food as Medicine through the lens of consumers and food retailers. This webinar will build on opportunities identified in the Food as Medicine 2021 report, to lay the foundation for establishing successful Food as Medicine programs at retail and identify target shoppers for different types of programs. The insights and takeaways will be relevant to executives at all levels of food retail, from the C-suite to marketing/sales to nutrition-focused associates.
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    National Family Meals Month Lunch and Learn (Part IV, Affordable Family Meals)

    • Wednesday, September 29, 2021 (12:30pm - 1pm US/Eastern)
    The FMI Foundation will be hosting a series of National Family Meals Month lunch and learn opportunities throughout the month of September to help the food retail industry stay strong with family meals! These twice-the-information in half-the-time webinars will be hosted on Wednesdays at 12:30pm eastern time beginning on September 8th. The 30-minute webinars will include some time for Q&A. We will wrap up this four-part series with two presentations on affordable family meals. Speakers will be announced closer to the event.

Webinar Recordings

John Ruane FF convo

A Fresh Forward Conversation with John Ruane of The Giant Co: What’s Ahead for In-Store Experience and Fresh

The fresh in-store experience suffered during the pandemic, as shoppers reduced trips and shifted to online purchasing. Retailers now have the opportunity to reenergize these experiences to drive store differentiation.

APGR Discussion: Collaborative Response Graphics (CRGs) Mapping Technique

Join Mike Rodgers as he discusses an innovative mapping technique being implemented across the country to enhance incident response.

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Top Trends in Fresh: Opportunities with Sustainability-Minded Consumer

Shoppers who are willing to make trade-offs for the environment represented 27% of fresh food spending in Q2 2021. They also spent 30% more than other shoppers on fresh foods. These increasingly valuable shoppers expect recyclable packaging and biodegradable ingredients and see organic, grass-fed and all-natural claims in the fresh aisle as givens. Now, they are starting to prioritize sustainability claims around food waste, animal welfare and nitrate-free products too.

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