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Solving Consumer Needs Requires Innovation and Relevancy

Today, the industry’s compass needs to be pointed directly on how to solve consumer needs. To do that, the future of grocery will employ technology as a tool to help shopper buy more ...

Serving Up Health and Wellness in the Fresh Department

Like cheese and wine, peanut butter and jelly, and fish and chips, consumers pair health and wellness with fresh ...

You’re Invited to Celebrate National Family Meals Month™

Have you ever felt like you missed out on the party? If you haven’t been participating in National Family Meals Month™ in September, a growing movement in food retail, you have been missing the party! ...

Proclaim September as Family Meals Month in Your State

A unique way for State Grocery and Retail Associations to support this cause is to have your state proclaim September as Family Meals Month. Beyond benefits to consumers, NFMM helps the food retail industry encourage consumers to have more meals ...

Retooling Your Resources For National Family Meals Month

This past September, American Heart Association (AHA) promoted National Family Meals Month™(NFMM) through their Healthy For Good program. The Healthy For Good movement aims to help people create sustainable, healthy ...

Campbell’s Family Meals Partnerships: Helping Families Eat Together

Campbell Soup Company, two-time winners of the Gold Plate Award, celebrated National Family Meals Month™ with their 2017 program Campbell’s Family Meals Partnerships: Helping Families Eat ...

Connecting Family Meals with Health and Wellness

The Kroger Co., a 2017 Gold Plate Award winner, focused their National Family Meals Month™ campaign on this natural connection between family meals and health and wellness. Kroger Health’s mission is to "help people live healthier lives, and one of ...

How Wholesale Grocers Can Leverage Multiple Brands to Celebrate National Family Meals Month

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) participated in National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM) for the past few years primarily utilizing its Best Choice brand. This year, AWG’s Grocers’ promoted (NFMM) through all of their brands (Best Choice, ...

Attracting, Exciting, and Engaging with Families

SpartanNash Company stated that their goal for National Family Meals Month™ was to “attract, excite and engage with all of the families that shop in our store and encourage them to eat together at home again during the month of September,” ...

Tackling the Eating Together Challenge

We know families appreciate the benefits of eating together—71 percent of parents say that ideally, they would like to eat dinner with their children every single night. Unfortunately, families succeed only half the time. Why do families fail at ...

National Family Meals Month Gains Mentor Power

This past September, Skogen’s Festival Foods celebrated National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM) through new and returning avenues....

Holidays and Grocery Industry: Gifts That Keeps On Giving

Ask any food retailer and they will tell you that Thanksgiving through Super Bowl Sunday is their busiest time of the year. It’s true, there are a number of holidays crammed into a short time period between November and early February, but is this ...

The Future Is Now: Food Retail Establishments Becoming Health and Wellness Destinations

While food trends may change as quickly as your Instagram feed refreshes, health and wellness in food retail continues to grow into a mainstay in food purchase decisions. Food retailers report the top two trends they believe will most positively ...

FMI Foundation Sets New Records in Fundraising, Family Meals, Research and Scholarships

2017 was a record-setting year for the FMI Foundation. In January, the Foundation launched a completely re-designed fundraising event that included a lively cooking competition designed to accentuate the FUN in Fundraising and celebrate the good ...

Adjusting our Optics on the Consumer

FMI’s 2017 work in clarifying shopper expectations of transparency, addressing consumer concerns and highlighting community service helped better frame the food retail picture and sharpened industry focus on the customer’s craving of personalized ...

In the Spirit of Giving, Let’s Stir It Up!

It’s that time of year when we’re all encouraged to give back a little. Maybe you’re running a store promotion to raise money for a local charity or working with a local food back to provide families holiday meals. However you’re giving back this ...

Cooking Classes Support Family Meals

The grassroots partnership with food retailers is the reason why Common Threads is such an active partner in the FMI Foundation’s National Family Meals Month campaign to encourage families to eat one more meal together every ...

Cooking Classes Fundamental to Family Meals

Common Threads offers cooking classes for children and families along with educator training in nine cities - soon to expand to 14. Earlier this year, when the nonprofit opened up shop in Pittsburgh, Karet was instrumental in its success by rallying ...

Preserving Shopper Trust through Health and Wellness

The most recent FMI U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends study found that nearly half of Americans see their “primary food store” as a significant ally in their attempts to achieve their health and wellness ...

FMI Family Embraces National Family Meals Month

During the month of September, FMI Staff celebrated National Family Meals Month™ with weekly events. The month kicked off with a pot luck celebration where everyone had the opportunity to share dishes that were special to their families. We also ...