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This report explores a range of issues from the health and well-being focus of seafood shoppers to seafood cooking behaviors and needs and seafood sustainability consumer trends.

As the first in a three-part Gerald E. Peck Fellowship research series that explores workforce attractiveness in the food retail industry, this report shows the food industry, particularly food retailers, has an opportunity to showcase the variety of career options available to Gen Z.

This project, devised and managed for FMI by Wisner Marketing, provides a roadmap for FMI retailer and wholesaler members to maximize the value of their private brands within the context of a shopper-centric approach.

The U. S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19 Tracker wave nine updates grocery shopping habits for online shopping; continued concerns about the coronavirus; shoppers' willingness to use grocery store pharmacies for flu shots; how grocery shoppers plan to celebrate upcoming holidays; and how Americans plan for food and drink around spectator sports.

This year’s report takes a wider view than before. As always, Speaks focuses on how the industry fared in the prior year, which in this case was 2019, including with some comparisons to 2018. In addition, this year’s report looks at how the industry has been impacted in 2020 by the first few months of the pandemic.

The omnichannel shopper –an evasive target that has proven far easier to define than to capture. And now in 2020, a dramatic, unexpected, and possibly permanent change to both buying behaviors and economic circumstances driven by COVID-19.

For fresh products, it is essential to get the demand forecasts right. Specifically, grocers must get them right on the day-level to capture demand variation throughout the week.

Over the past decade, consumer demand for personalization in retail has changed the way the industry operates. In order to drive loyalty, retailers must have the right price, the right promotion, and the right products for their customers.

Robots have finally come to the floor of the retail store after proving their value in dozens of industries. This white paper offers the first limited ROI data as robots attempt to prove their value in reducing out of stocks (OOS) in supermarkets.

The Power of Meat Midyear 2020 Update provides a look at shopper habits regarding meat and poultry pre-trip, in-store and at home during the pandemic.

The Home Cooking in America 2020, a Special Report based on U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends, conducted by the Hartman Group, explores cooking attitudes and behaviors, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New research from FMI and Label Insight indicates that perspectives on transparency and likes and dislikes about buying experiences are different when grocery shoppers shop online versus in physical stores.

A joint effort between FMI and CART, you’ll find the report contents to serve as a management discussion prescription, identifying areas of focus for needed capabilities as the industry emerges into a post-pandemic world.

This Excel file is a supplement to the U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2020 report. It reports data collected from US respondents, 18+ years old, in February 2020.

The U.S. Grocery Shopper COVID-19 Tracker wave six explores food waste and food shortages, along with consumers' emerging feelings of home-cooking fatigue.

Cooking and eating healthy during a pandemic. To assess the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. grocery shopper perceptions and behaviors, FMI is conducting online tracking surveys.

Concerns about feeding families. To assess the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. grocery shopper perceptions and behaviors, FMI is conducting online tracking surveys.

This report explores a range of issues from the value of having a seafood counter to the role of sustainability as well as potential approaches to increase seafood consumption and attract new seafood shoppers.

The Power of Meat explores shopper perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding meat and poultry.

This report examines the online and in-store grocery shopping journey of Gen Z and millennials through their perceptions, behaviors and attitudes toward grocery shopping today and their expectations for the future.

This report curates a wide range of FMI research and content on this topic and identifies emerging consumer trends, quantifies consumer attitudes regarding health and well-being in food retail and establishes benchmarks for future evaluation.

Defining the role emerging issues play in the food industry and helping companies strategically prepare for the new realities of marketplace, Ernst & Young LLP explores how major companies can take steps to better understand and serve today’s consumer to drive change in the market.

This benchmarking includes findings on the logistics performance of U.S. food retail supply chains as well as the impact of digital on supply chains

A guide for retailers and product suppliers to understand issues pertaining to cannabis-derived products.

The purpose of this document is to assist in preventing contamination of leafy greens, to increase communication across the entire supply chain, to protect consumers and the safety of products they consume, and to facilitate effective response to food safety incidents should they occur again.

When crises occur—whether natural disasters, cyber security breaches, food safety issues, or even protests—your response will be critical to maintaining your relationships with shoppers, employees and business partners. Leverage this manual with your team to prepare, respond and recover from a crisis.

This updated comprehensive guide helps members comply with a broad range of labeling issues, including the updated Nutrition Facts Label, FDA’s menu labeling regulation and guidance for issues with emerging regulatory frameworks, such as meal kits.