Workforce

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.

FMI Workforce Resources

Second Chance Hiring: A Resource Guide

Through a series of best practices, industry examples and resources, this guide explores the benefits of a second chance hiring program and fosters support for those who are looking to implement the practice within their own company.

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2023

This report provides the food industry with important operational and financial benchmarks, as well as insights into strategic and tactical decisions among both food retailers and suppliers.

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2023 Series

This report series explores food shoppers' journeys and behaviors.

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.

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.

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 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.