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The 2021 Retailer Contributions to Health & Well-being report demonstrates how grocery stores are contributing to the health of their customers, including offering nutrition guidance, pharmacy solutions and overall health and well-being resources.

Learn how fresh departments can embrace Food as Medicine programs and how retails can inspire consumers with well-being strategies.

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.

FMI is picking up the Decades of Donations research on the vital role supermarket play in their community food supply. Following 2005 research, FMI surveyed 74 member food retailers and 44 food bank executives for the 2012 data, asking how they contribute to the demand of food in light of economic changes.

View this session for an update on the FDA Total Diet Study (TDS) Report which helps FDA prioritize food safety and nutrition efforts. This report is the first in a series on FY2018-FY2020 TDS data and summarizes the most recent data on nutrients and toxic elements from the agency’s on-going survey of the U.S. Food Supply.

It’s not just the foods we eat that impact our mental and physical health; it’s also the company we keep when eating. Research shows that family meals, however you define family, are associated with better overall individual nutritional intake, better weight management, and stronger social interactions.

To support our work with the White House Conference, FMI collected insights, stories, and recommendations from our members – food retailers, wholesalers, and suppliers. The FMI Collective Report puts forth preliminary food industry commitments, recommendations for government actions, and showcases examples from member nutrition, health and well-being initiatives and community outreach and engagement programs that demonstrate the important role the food industry plays in impacting hunger, nutrition, and health.

This report spotlights key takeaways from speakers at the FMI Health & Well-being In-person meeting, held in November, and action steps recommended by attendees.

A forward-looking analysis of the trends that are expected to drive food retail over the next decade.

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.

In How Accepting Healthy Benefits Support Customer Wellbeing, co-authored by Oliver Wyman and FMI, we explore the financial landscape of healthy benefits programs, how these programs work, and opportunities and challenges retailers may face in establishing systems to accept healthy benefit card payments.

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 inaugural report dives into consumer perspectives on products considered alternatives to traditional animal-derived items, and also naturally plant-based foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains.

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.

This white paper aims to illuminate the clean label trend for brand owners, and encourage the identification of best practices in this quickly evolving area.

The Food as Medicine Opportunity in Food Retail report, produced in collaboration by FMI and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, builds on the latest research on consumer and retailer perceptions to outline the business opportunities for food retailers to embrace the concept of “Food as Medicine.”

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 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.

Pandemic. Inflation. Supply chain bottlenecks. Labor shortages. Global conflict. All of these challenges and more have turned food industry operations into an obstacle course that many expect to get more complex. This year’s The Food Retailing Industry Speaks report tells the story of the food retail industry’s resilience in navigating the many hurdles of 2021. New this year, for the first time in its 74-year history, this year’s Speaks includes input from both retailers and suppliers

As consumers lead the charge in setting food and health trends, food retailers are capitalizing on the business growth potential of health and well-being strategies.

The Power of Foodservice at Retail 2018 Part 2 aims to bring detailed insights into the wants and needs as well as the attitudes and behaviors of the retail foodservice shopper.

This report provides insights around grocery foodservice shoppers' purchasing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. It evaluates a path forward for food retailers' foodservice operations.

The Power of Foodservice at Retail 2022 is the seventh in an annual report series exploring shopper perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors regarding deli-prepared foods in grocery stores.

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 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.

The Power of In-Store Bakery 2023 is the second annual report exploring shopper perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding in-store bakery in grocery stores.

According to the latest FMI/NIQ Transparency Trends report, neither COVID-19 nor significant economic challenges inhibited shoppers’ desire for increased information from the food industry.

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

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 U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2020 report. It reports data collected from US respondents, 18+ years old, in February 2020.

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.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve been tracking grocery shoppers’ changing habits and behaviors. It’s back-to-school season; we continue to evaluate grocery shopper behaviors and take a closer look at how shoppers’ plans and habits evolve as families return to routine.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve been tracking grocery shoppers’ changing habits and behaviors. This report recaps long-standing grocery shopper trends including sustainability, transparency and health and well-being. We also explore shoppers’ concerns and expectations for the future and what we can learn from their approaches to the evolving hybrid world.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve been tracking grocery shoppers’ changing habits and behaviors. This report looks at the food shopper journey and how it is indicative of a growing hybrid approach to grocery shopping.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve been tracking grocery shoppers’ changing habits and behaviors. This latest update details shoppers’ weekly spend, primary store choice, and engagement with the emerging array of online and in-person grocery options.

It’s the holiday season; we continue to evaluate grocery shopper behaviors and take a closer look at shoppers' plans for the major food holidays.

The meaning of “good value” is becoming more complex as consumers navigate grocery aisles. Emerging dimensions of quality, relevance, experience and convenience are bucking the long-held definition of value being measured by a simple equation of higher quantity at a lower price.

Overview: COVID-19 impact on grocery shopping. To assess the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. grocery shopper perceptions and behaviors, FMI is conducting online tracking surveys.

Consumer expectations for future shopping behavior. To assess the impact of COVID-19 on U.S. grocery shopper perceptions and behaviors, FMI is conducting online tracking surveys.

The U. S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19 Tracker wave eight revisits topics explored in the first wave of this research including consumers concern about the virus; anxiety about ability to feed the household; the nature of shopping trips; reliance on online grocery channels; cooking trends; and trust in grocery stores.

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.

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.

The U. S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19 Tracker: Holidays updates grocery shopping attitudes and behaviors as Americans look forward to the holiday season.