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At a time when many industries suffered devastating job losses, the grocery industry has served as a source for occupations for hundreds of thousands of Americans. The food industry can and should continue to rally around strategies and investments in their employees to keep customers and their essential workforce safe and America fed.

The Evolving Grocery Experience

Investing In The Shopping Journey

Gain The Extra Edge: Food Retail Leader Certificate

Celebrating Our Store Managers

Education Resources

Our events and education section includes online and in-person options to help you advance your food retail career. Here are a few resources that may be of interest:

Workforce Blog Posts

Addressing Your Most Pressing Challenge: Talent

Mar 21, 2023

According to The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2022 report, workforce and talent top the list of challenges facing the food industry. With a turnover rate of 48% among food retailers and a 29% turnover rate for suppliers, it’s easy to understand ...

Mitigating Labor Shortage and Workforce Challenges Through Employee Satisfaction

Mar 7, 2023

Developing employee satisfaction is the secret ingredient of employee management. It takes a complicated mix of modern leadership, coaching, training and engagement, but the result is an employee that wants to stay at your company and ...

Six Imperative Issues Facing the Food Industry in 2023

Feb 28, 2023

The articles in this year’s Boardroom volume 8 reflect FMI’s Imperative Issues Framework. Boardroom continues to provide analysis and recommendations through the lens of the food industry's imperative issues – from supply chain and workforce ...

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Examining the Future of Work in the Food Industry

Technology and new sources of talent are together unlocking new possibilities for what we refer to as the “Future of Work” (FoW). Deloitte and FMI, have a series of reports examining how food retailers and suppliers are approaching the future of work.

Future of Work: The State of the Food Industry - Reveals the industry’s future of work maturity, goals, roadblocks and investment.
Future of work: Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the food industry - Examines how expansively food industry executives are thinking about diversity, including the progress made and the specific policies they think work best.
Future of work: Digital skills in the food industry - Identifies specific skills needed most in the food industry.

FMI Member Plus Program

FMI's Member Plus Program helps you get more out of your membership by facilitating connections with industry leading resources. Here are some Member Plus Program partner that relates to workforce training.

Updated Safemark-logo_bw SafeMark, the premier food safety training program for the retail food industry, offers interactive and engaging food handler and manager courses that use real-life retail scenarios to effectively communicate food safety best practices.

The Power of Preparedness (TPOP) allows FMI members to implement comprehensive online training for workplace violence prevention, verbal de-escalation, and active assailant preparedness.

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For questions and more information, please contact FMI's Chief Collaboration Officer & Senior Vice President, Industry Relations Mark Baum.

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For questions or more information regarding federal legislation, please contact FMI’s Chief Public Policy Officer and Senior Vice President, Government & Public Affairs, Jennifer Hatcher.

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FMI Workforce Resources

Best Practices for Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training Modules

This guide is a collection of FMI member wisdom on effective diversity, equity and inclusion modules, gathered through a survey on member practices and the resources they use to address DEI concerns.

Boardroom Volume 8

This journal discusses food industry supply chain disruption, labor shortages and workforce challenges, technology transformation, changing marketplace and societal dynamics, evolving consumer behaviors, and rising ESG expectations.

Managerial Best Practices

This report explores managerial best practices at the store/warehouse level to help improve employee retention.

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2022

his year’s report surveys both retailers and suppliers and outlines several challenges that have turned food industry operations into an obstacle course.

Hiring Refugees: A Resource Guide

Information on how to directly hiring refugees, sourcing product from refugee owned businesses, distribute and donate crucial resources or even support government policies that facilitate refugee resettlement.

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2022 Series

This series of six reports explores food shoppers' journeys and behaviors.

Improving Employee Retention in the Grocery Industry

As the second in a three-part Gerald E. Peck Fellowship research series that explores workforce attractiveness in the food retail industry, this report explores the challenge of retaining employees and offers recommendations to increase retention.

Receipts from the Pandemic: Grocery Store Investments Amid COVID-19 and the Resulting Economics of an Essential Industry

This analysis quantifies the operational costs of actions food retailers took amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Workforce Attractiveness How To Recruit Gen Z

Workforce Attractiveness in the Food Industry: How to Recruit Gen Z

This report shows the food industry, particularly food retailers, has an opportunity to showcase the variety of career options available to Gen Z.

Power of Private Brands 2020: Turning Store Associates into Private Brand Ambassadors

This is an opportune time to get store associates more engaged with private brands. This report is intended to help begin that process for the industry.

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EVENTS

We welcome you to join us for the following events.

Digital Seminar
FMI and TPOP Workplace Violence Preparedness for Food Retailers: The Crisis After the Crisis: Being Prepared For the Post Incident Response
- Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (2pm - 3pm US/Eastern)
If the unthinkable happens and your organization experiences an active shooter incident, are you prepared for what happens next? Businesses become crime scenes, victims and families need special care, and careful communications must be crafted for various audiences including the media. Waiting until a crisis occurs is not the right time to start planning for the crisis. This webinar covers the essential planning that every business must put in place *before a crisis occurs* and highlights a number of critically important decisions.
Conference
2024 Midwinter Executive Conference
- Thursday, January 18 - Sunday, January 21, 2024
- | Marco Island, FL
The Midwinter Executive Conference is FMI's signature, invitation-only annual gathering that attracts more than 1,000 senior-level executives in the food retail marketplace. It is a prestigious member-only event offering an opportunity for a diverse group of top industry leaders, including retailers, wholesalers, independent operators, suppliers and manufacturers, to converge and gain insights relevant to the success of their businesses. Supplier partners quality for at least 2, and up to an unlimited amount of invitations, depending on their level of membership.
Conference
2025 Midwinter Executive Conference
- Thursday, January 30 - Sunday, February 2, 2025
- | Marco Island, FL
The Midwinter Executive Conference is FMI's signature, invitation-only annual gathering that attracts more than 1,000 senior-level executives in the food retail marketplace. It is a prestigious member-only event offering an opportunity for a diverse group of top industry leaders, including retailers, wholesalers, independent operators, suppliers and manufacturers, to converge and gain insights relevant to the success of their businesses. Supplier partners quality for at least 2, and up to an unlimited amount of invitations, depending on their level of membership.

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Eightfold Talent Exchange

With the commitment of human capital, technology, and speed from myriad corporate partnerships, FMI is co-sponsoring the Eightfold Talent Exchange, a talent marketplace built and hosted by Eightfold.ai. The online portal will facilitate companies to identify the talent they have furloughed and then accelerate connections between companies hiring. Sharing these open opportunities with available employees to match needs across geographies.

Visit Eightfold Talent Exchange and learn more in this presentation.

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