Voice of The Food Industry Blog

Why Investing in Preparedness Training Pays Off — for Retailers, Employees and Communities

Incidents rarely happen without warning. With the right training, employees can recognize early behavioral signs and act before situations ...

Food Safety Innovation Starts with a Question: What If We Could Make Food Safer?

FMI is seeking nominations by May 23, 2025, for the annual Food Safety Innovation Award. The award honors a company, organization or regulatory agency that is advancing food protection through ingenuity, leadership and ...

Riding the Regulatory Rollercoaster

The last year of the Biden administration, and the dawn of the second Trump administration, have turned the regulatory environment into a rollercoaster of increased action.....

Retail Media's Rise Is Reshaping Grocery — And We are Just Getting Started

Retail media is not merely an emerging opportunity; it is becoming in some respects essential to the future of consumer marketing and influencing the path to purchase....

Build Supply Chains That Serve Real Life

During a recent trip to my local grocery store I overheard a fellow shopper on the phone explaining how if this retailer didn’t have her son’s particular brand of granola bars, he’d have.....

Retailers: Your Voice Matters in Shaping SQF Edition 10

Certification gives confidence that supply chain partners meet globally recognized food safety expectations. Edition 10 is your chance to ensure those standards stay practical, credible and aligned with real-world retail ...

The SNAP Program Is Important and Can Be Even More Efficient

FMI believes in strengthening SNAP’s long-term sustainability by working with USDA and state partners to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse and to identify ways to improve program efficiency....

Key Trends: Fresh Industry Outlook

The fresh industry has spoken. I heard a lot of great insights about the industry’s current mood and outlook during a recent string of fresh foods conferences and trade shows.....

The First 85 Days of the Trump Administration

There can be no overstatement of the level of change and constant motion that we have seen in the first 85 days of the Trump administration, the Republican trifecta on Capitol Hill, and at the state ...

Why Food Industry Financial Executive and Internal Auditing Education Matters

In 1999, Richard Sigmon attended his first Financial Executive and Internal Auditing (FEIA) conference. He didn’t know it at the time, but it would kick off a 25-year tradition of professional.....

The Shifting Minds of Grocery Shoppers

For the past few months, FMI has been tracking consumer sentiment on a variety of issues. Our latest Grocery Shopper Snapshot, fielded April 3-8, shows a shift in ...

The State of the Meat Department Remains Strong

The meat department continues to be the largest perimeter department in terms of sales and a key driver of store choice and continues to be important to help generate store ...

Rising Stars and Legends in Asset Protection

FMI’s asset protection community recently gathered in the heart of St. Louis, steps from the iconic Gateway Arch, for the Asset Protection & Grocery Resilience Conference.....

Unlock Retail Growth with Innovative Waste Solutions

In the United States, where regulatory mandates on food waste reduction are less stringent than regions like the European Union, the food industry has found a unique chance to lead through ...

Reciprocal Tariffs and the Food Industry: What Lies Ahead

After last Wednesday’s announcement of broad “reciprocal tariffs” by President Trump, we are now facing the highest tariff levels in a century – a scenario that has created a lot of uncertainty and ...