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Discuss where food prices are headed, challenges the supply chain could face, and updated research on how consumers are responding to changes in the marketplace.

A listing of health and wellness programs among more than 50 retailers.

This report updates the 2013 Food Retailing and Wholesaling Audit Study by documenting changes in key benchmarking information and capturing new data points specific to the internal auditing function at FMI member and non-member companies.

Key benchmarking information specific to the financial performance and business environment in fiscal years 2012 and 2013.

The FoodKeeper Mobile App was released for mobile and tablet devices in April 2015. This kit helps retailers promote the storage guidance resource.

Subscribe to the free FMI FreshForward Conversation Series featuring industry leaders sharing insights on foodservice at retail, the in-store fresh expereince, ecommerce and industry insights. With each 10 – 15-minute segment, you’ll gain insights into fresh foods sales growth strategies.

FMI and Kurt Salmon, a part of Accenture Strategy, examine three main areas of change in the food industry: the battle for the food marketplace and new models that will bring new levels of convenience to consumers; the need for nimble companies and commercial models that support innovation to meet changing consumer desires; and how the food production system will lesson waste and expand the food base.

This brief report provides an update on shoppers' weekly grocery spend, evolving grocery habits and the role of technology in grocery shopping.

Listen to a discussion among FMI subject matter experts and The Hartman Group regarding how shoppers are coping with inflationary pressures on food prices, how that has influenced consumer grocery shopping behavior and the many ways shoppers define and find value when purchasing food. This discussion is related to the 2023 FMI U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends series.

This publication provides retailers with practical, real-world guidance directed at controlling Listeria monocytogenes and other foodborne illness. Also available in print.

Companies can step in to provide new opportunities and resources to those in need, whether it be directly hiring refugees, sourcing product from refugee owned businesses, distributing and donating crucial resources or even supporting government policies that facilitate refugee resettlement.

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.

Which historical data would have helped you anticipate the surge in the demand for flour and yeast? Who knew that during pandemics, people...bake?

Gain further insights on strategic thinking, establishing aspirations and evaluating capabilities to establish a viable foodservice operating model, while keeping consumer needs at the forefront.

This backgrounder provides an overview of the potential for gene editing to provide solutions to food supply challenges and consumer driven food quality demands through the lens of implications for the food retail industry.

The report evaluates the business processes that impact the effectiveness of open dating for product expiration in the CPG and retail industry.

Consumers are gearing up for shopping and their motivations and decision making may surprise you. Our Illuminate report dives into the impact of inflation as festive times draw near, including how consumers are figuring out what tradeoffs in spending to make in an inflationary environment.

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.

As the third in a three-part Gerald E. Peck Fellowship research series that explores workforce attractiveness in the food retail industry, this report explores managerial best practices at the store/warehouse level to help improve employee retention.

Learn more about the impact of changing economic conditions in the context of the ongoing challenges and opportunities in the meat retail industry.

New U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates require nutritional information on the major cuts of single-ingredient, raw meat and poultry products be available to the consumer at the point-of-purchase by March 1, 2012. This single poster answers your compliance needs.

The following miniature poster reflects the Chicken and Turkey sections of the large Nutri-Facts poster (seen here), to accommodate stores with only chicken and turkey sales counters.

The following three miniature posters reflect the large Nutri-Facts poster, but are broken up into smaller, 24 x 18 formats to be displayed in different sections of your store if necessary.

Webinar Recording - Own your system and your customer data with Dematic as they discuss a new approach for on-demand orders. This session is part of a series: Meet the Micro-fulfillment Leaders and Explore the Possibilities

Webinar Recording - Watch how Takeoff technologies uses robotics to offer a solution to turn profit on Groceries. This session is part of a series: Meet the Micro-fulfillment Leaders and Explore the Possibilities

Webinar Recording - Own your system and your customer data with Dematic as they discuss a new approach for on-demand orders.

This document provides guidance for assisting key personnel to prepare, respond, stabilize, and recover from a natural disaster event.

The swift pivot to a remote working culture has proven to be an unexpected hero during this crisis, helping mitigate damage to the economy even as adoption of new technologies fundamentally changes the way business operate.

It is essential that retailer take a next generation approach to customer loyalty and view loyalty in 3D: Loyalty as a Strategy, Loyalty as an Outcome of Daily Decisions and Loyalty as a Program.

On Shelf Availability Root Causes Ishikawa Diagram was developed to help companies reduce out-of-stock levels. The Root Causes Ishikawa diagram highlights the leading causes of failures across these areas and is tailored for use across the supply chain.

Webinar Recording - In this recording, industry leaders from across the food industry engage in open discussion of the daily challenges they are facing, as they strive to put products in the hands of consumers.

Enhances store associates' knowledge of the economic impact of shoplifting and presents some common shoplifting techniques. Click here to purchase or view a sample. Also available as a video set.

This briefing discussed some of the lesser known or little understood causes, effects, and impacts of inflationary pressures on the price of food at the grocery store. FMI’s Vice President of Tax, Trade, and Sustainability Andy Harig was joined by Dr. Ricky Volpe, an Associate Professor of Agribusiness at Cal Poly who specializes in food retail and supply chain management, transportation and logistics, and food prices and data analysis.

Demographer Diana Elliott of the Population Reference Bureau illustrates and discusses workforce shortage trends in the United States and other developed countries around the world.

This referenced white paper reviews current consumer research that highlights the perceived value of family meals that includes the social, emotional, healthful and financial benefits of meal sharing at home.

The Power of Fresh Prepared/Deli 2016 documents the biggest trends in consumer purchasing and consumption of deli/fresh prepared, its opportunity, image, store destination and above all, the ways in which stores can meet, and exceed, consumer expectations in this space.

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.

This report dives into consumer perspectives and habits regarding plant-based alternative foods and beverages.

This presentation aims to shed light on the rapid evolution of all things plant-based, literally from soup to nuts.

Private brands have gained momentum during the pandemic, but these brands have encountered some challenges as the pandemic has progressed. Senior executives — from those in the C-suite to private brand business leaders — will need to pursue a range of strategies to ensure their private brand businesses keep up the momentum.

The 2021 FMI Power of Private Brands report tells the story of new opportunities for private brands, stemming from consumer trial during the pandemic. Ecommerce has been accelerated by the pandemic, and there is a need to advance how private brands are presented online to generate consumer trial and purchases. This report identifies key strategies to enhance private brands in ecommerce.

The 2022 FMI Power of Private Brands report dives into consumer perspectives on private brands.

The 2023 FMI Power of Private Brands report examines opportunities geared to three outcomes: driving consumer purchases, enhancing retailer/wholesaler strategies, and improving supply and assortment.

This report assesses consumers’ attitudes toward and purchasing habits around private brands, along with the “destination effect” of private brands on consumers' choice of retailers.

Explore how innovation goes beyond product development and price optimization, impacting brand development, marketing, logistics, and supplier relationships. Discover opportunities for driving consumer purchases, enhancing retailer/wholesaler strategies, and improving supply and assortment.

This year’s From the Register report looks at how private brands are transforming in new and exciting directions as consumers are increasingly embracing private brands.

This year’s From the Industry report assesses industry performance, threats and opportunities from the perspective of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers in the private brands space.

This recording is the second part of our digital seminar series for FMI members, which focuses on gene-edited food products and the Responsible Use of Gene Editing platform developed by the Center for Food Integrity.