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This tool was created by FMI's Sustainability Executive Committee to assist sustainability leaders in making the compelling business case for sustainability with senior leadership.

The Collaboration 2.0 project is a multiyear initiative, developed with Market6®, to help the grocery industry improve how grocers and their suppliers work together around key shared business processes to grow sales, profits and customer satisfaction/loyalty.

A follow-up to FMI Foundation research first published in 2020, this new report delves deeper into what consumers want to know about gene edited food products and who they consider to be trustworthy sources in addressing biotechnological applications in food.

Learn how to meet consumer demand for production and transparency criteria regarding sustainability, and what companies should consider in regards to compliance and liability.

This report looks at the sustainable sourcing of high-impact commodities, which are noted for having sensitive social, environmental and economic impacts because of where and how they are produced, harvested and/or processed.

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

An alliance of food manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators announced the release of a toolkit to help businesses in the food sector reduce the amount of food waste sent to landfill.

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.

This annual state of the industry report provides an analysis of financial performance, operational and store-level benchmarks as well as strategic and competitive insights.

This annual state of the industry report provides an analysis of financial performance, operational and store-level benchmarks as well as strategic and competitive insights.

This year’s The Food Retailing Industry Speaks report tells the story of the food retail industry’s resilience and transformation in 2020 — and how the landscape continues to shift. Speaks relays data about proactive retailer strategies and investments driven by the pandemic —and growing connections to shoppers and communities.

Retailers and suppliers are facing formidable challenges with a changing workforce, inflation, supply chain hurdles, new government regulations, more intense competition and changing patterns of consumer buying. Food industry leaders are increasingly bringing innovative approaches to battle these and other challenges. They are working to future-proof their businesses by tapping into lessons learned over the past few years. The 74th annual edition of The Food Retailing Industry Speaks (Speaks) outlines the biggest hurdles and how retailers and suppliers are taking more creative and proactive stances to drive success.

This white paper aims to put trust on the front burner for retailers. It makes a direct link between trust and the need for greater transparency. It emphasizes the importance of genuinely embracing and communicating ethical practices throughout the supply chain as the best way to build consumer trust.

This preview of The U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2015 study provides an analysis of the attitudes and behaviors of American consumers as they relate to and impact the food retail industry.

The U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2016 provides an analysis of the attitudes and behaviors of American consumers as they relate to and impact the food retail industry.

The 2018 U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report, prepared by the Hartman Group, tracks trends among U.S.grocery shoppers, and for the last four decades, we’ve traced where they shop, how they shop and what issues are most important to them as consumers. This year we examine what it means to shoppers to eat well and shop well.

This Excel file is a supplement to the U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2019 report. It reports data collected from US respondents, 18+ years old, in February 2019.

This Excel file is a supplement to the 2021 U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report. It reports data collected from US respondents, 18+ years old, in February 2021.