By: Rick Stein, Vice President of Fresh, Food Marketing Institute For National Seafood Month in October, the Seafood Nutrition Partnership™ (SNP) is bringing the focus back to family. The FMI Foundation partnered with SNP to emphasize the importance of …
By Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, Food Marketing Institute The year The Food Retail Industry Speaks made its inaugural appearance, Harry S. Truman was President, Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific featuring Some Enchanted Evening opened on Broadway …
By Doug Baker, Vice President, Industry Relations, Food Marketing Institute When the lights suddenly go out at the Baker household my family knows the plan. My wife grabs the candles, I get out the batteries and flashlights, we conserve our cellphone power …
By: Andy Harig, Vice President, Tax, Trade, Sustainability & Policy Development, Food Marketing Institute I came into the food retail industry having spent the whole of my early career in the public policy arena. On my first day at the Food Marketing …
By Steve Markenson, Director of Research, Food Marketing Institute The answer to the question is – let me count the ways. This year’s U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report takes a deep dive into the growing world of online shopping and explores how the …
The food retail industry is rallying around National Family Meals Month™. Here are some of the activities we’ve seen encouraging families to get back to the table. Giant Food Giant Food hosted a podcast—Family Meals Month - Nourishing Your Family Unit— …
By Sue Wilkinson, Senior Director, Information Service & Research, Food Marketing Institute My first loyalty card was obtained in the late 1980s from a food retailer that displayed member and nonmember prices on products throughout the store. If you …
By: Allison Febrey, Specialist, Health and Wellness, Food Marketing Institute Young adulthood is a time of freedom, discovery and charting your path in the world. Eating balanced, healthy meals is normally a low priority during this time. Gen Z, however, …
Last week, Congressman Gil Cisneros (CA-39) and Hill staff members met with engaged associates from TAWA Supermarkets, Inc. FMI’s Director of Member Relations and Advocacy for the Western Region, Cynthia Brazzel, joined 99 Ranch Market’s General Counsel, …
FMI Foundation’s National Family Meals Month™ Spokesmitt, Mitty the Mitt, joins the Voice of Food Retail as a guest author to share favorite family meal memories and highlight the impact the food retail industry has made helping consumers have one more …
By: David Fikes, Vice President, Communications, Community and Consumer Affairs, Food Marketing Institute One of my most trusted mentors once offered the following sage warning, the problem with following your gut instinct is even your best intuition may …
By: Andy Harig, Vice President, Tax, Trade, Sustainability & Policy Development, Food Marketing Institute At a Labor Day BBQ, my niece made it clear that she was not looking forward to going back to school. Isn’t it exciting, I asked her, getting to …
By: Melaina Lewis, Manager, Communications, Food Marketing Institute Do you ever wonder how much you're really personalizing your grocery shopping? Today’s households are eating in increasingly personalized ways as they pursue individual aspirations of …
By: Doug Baker, Vice President, Industry Relations - Private Brands, Technology, Food Marketing Institute A major challenge facing grocery operations professionals today is the sheer number of technologies vying for their attention. Sorting hype from …
By: Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh, Industry Relations, Food Marketing Institute If you measure the plant-based burger trend in Kelvins, it’s reached 100+ degrees this summer. FMI’s 2019 U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report finds a rising number of …
By: Doug Baker, Vice President, Industry Relations - Private Brands, Technology, Food Marketing Institute Forty-five years of consumers’ grocery shopping habits documented in our U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report shows that households have their own …
Recently, FMI’s Lucas Darnell, director, member relations and advocacy (Eastern Region), visited with Michael McQuade, owner of McQuade’s Marketplace, in Westerly, RI. McQuade's Marketplace has been a member of FMI since 1979. Their three stores …
By Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, Food Marketing Institute When asked how he created such magnificent sculptures, Michelangelo responded, “I saw the angel in the marble, and I carved until I set him free.” True to his words, Michelangelo’s series of …
By: Doug Baker, Vice President, Industry Relations - Private Brands, Technology, Food Marketing Institute An abundant number of opportunities exist for technology in food retail–from shaping omnichannel success, leveraging data for enhancing customer …
By: Ashley Eisenbeiser, Senior Director, Food and Product Safety Programs, Food Marketing Institute Grocery shopping with a toddler is like shopping with a ticking time bomb. You have a finite amount of time to get your shopping completed before the …
