Jan 12, 2021 By: Steve Markenson, Director, Research, FMI For 15 years, the Power of Meat report has been a highly anticipated part of the Annual Meat Conference. For everyone, 2020 was quite a year and for the meat department that was particularly true. …
Jan 11, 2021 By: Mark Baum, FMI Chief Collaboration Officer and Senior Vice President of Industry Relations, FMI The global food safety community has been adapting to unprecedented business operations and procedures at a breathtaking pace over the past …
Jan 7, 2021 By: David Fikes, Executive Director, FMI Foundation The road to the Supper Bowl is getting a bit more intense with the voting now open to determine which two of the eight semi-finalists proceed to the championship round. Go to FMI.org/ …
Jan 4, 2021 By: Krystal Register, MS, RDN, LDN, Director, Health & Well-being, FMI The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released as anticipated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) just before …
Dec 30, 2020 By Dan Ratner, Senior Director, Member Services and Peter Collins, Senior Director, Business Development and Membership, FMI Everyone recalls certain years in their life as significant and defining for specific reasons like graduations, …
Dec 21, 2020 By: Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, FMI This year my traditional revisiting of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol resulted in an even more poignant experience given the COVID-19 context. I discovered some surprising parallels and lessons …
Dec 18, 2020 By: Dan Ratner, Senior Director, Member Services, FMI I found it refreshing to read David Orgel’s recent article How to Be Ready for Anything in 2021 in Drug Store News. It isn’t so much a piece about predictions and resolutions for a new …
Dec 17, 2020 By Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, FMI The COVID-19 pandemic has changed consumer grocery shopping habits and as a result, the role of the grocery store has been modified to address customers’ new needs. Yes, the well-documented delivery …
Dec 16, 2020 By: Marjorie DePuy, Senior Director, Supply Chain and Sustainability, FMI Recently, we recognized FMI member companies making a difference with sustainable refrigerant management through the EPA’s GreenChill program. The public-private …
Dec 15, 2020 By Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh Foods, FMI If you told me this time last year that the salad bar would be just a memory and that there would be a run on yeast for homemade bread, I would have thought that you might have imbibed too much …
Dec 14, 2020 By: Allison Febrey, Specialist, Health and Well-being/FMI Foundation/ Food & Product Safety and David Fikes, Executive Director, FMI Foundation As we approach the calendar flip of the year and enter the phase of reflecting on the previous …
Dec 11, 2020 By Rick Stein, Vice President of Fresh, FMI The COVID-19 pandemic has been a giant learning experience about many things — and one of these is how consumer perspectives are shifting. FMI has been tracking this topic closely, and my role is to …
Dec 10, 2020 By Gwen Lee, Senior Manager, Food Safety Programs, FMI FMI members representing the food retail industry strongly support food safety training and education of store management and associates. A successful food safety program begins with …
Dec 8, 2020 By: Dagmar Farr, Chief Member Relations Officer, SVP, Membership and Education, FMI Zoom fatigue. “You’re muted!” “Can you hear me now?” How many times have we heard this during the doozy that has been 2020? The hardships of the year are robust …
Dec 7, 2020 By Doug Baker, Vice President, Industry Relations, FMI As private brands grow into robust brands in their own right, it’s more important than ever to get the word out to shoppers. That’s why FMI recently explored whether getting store …
Dec 4, 2020 By: Jennifer Hatcher, Chief Public Policy Officer, Senior Vice President, Government and Public Affair, FMI While 2020 has presented a once in a lifetime challenge for the food industry, FMI’s public policy team in conjunction with our members …
Dec 3, 2020 By: Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, FMI Since 1927, TIME magazine has ended each year with a cover edition designed to spark debate and celebration. The “Person of the Year” edition has featured protesters, activities, presidents, astronauts …
Dec 1, 2020 By: David Fikes, Executive Director, FMI Foundation Following closely on the retail-oriented heels of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday provides us with the opportunity to begin the holiday season on a …
Nov 30, 2020 By: Kelli Windsor, Director, Digital Communications, FMI Every year in The Food Retailing Industry Speaks report we ask food retailers about their communications channels/methods and which they find to be most effective. In a typical year I’d …
Nov 24, 2020 By: Krystal Register, Director, Health & Well-being, FMI As noted in The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2020 (Speaks) report, “the greatest health crisis in 100 years has scrambled just about every facet of food retail, not to mention …
