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Asset Protection

We offer collaboration opportunities for food retailing industry professionals in the area of loss prevention to predict, confront and resolve common issues or concerns using an all hazards, all threats, all crime, all the time approach.

Asset Protection and Grocery Resilience Conference

Organized Retail Crime Associations

A resource for ORC Associations throughout the U.S.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Regions

Truckers Against Trafficking

Recognize and respond to human trafficking

FMI and TPOP Present Online Training: Workplace Violence Preparedness

FMI members can implement comprehensive online training for workplace violence prevention, verbal de-escalation, and active assailant preparedness.

The training, which is custom tailored for the grocery and food industry, will give FMI members and their workers the knowledge and confidence to identify, prevent, and if necessary, minimize potentially violent conflicts.

Take advantage of the FMI Member discount for valuable eLearning.

Digital Seminar Series: Are You Prepared for Workplace Violence?

Brought to FMI members through our partnership with leaders in violence mitigation training, we are co-hosting a series to help you learn how to identify threats your associates may face and how to address them.

Series Details

Asset Protection Blog Posts

Policy Statements

Our current Board approved policy statement on this topic:

FMI Violence Preparedness Committee

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 is one Member Plus Program partner that relates to asset protection and crisis management.

Early Alert provides access to discounted packages for Meteorology and All-Hazard Emergency Management solutions.

Asset Protection On-Demand Digital Seminars

MORE ASSET PROTECTION ON-DEMAND DIGITAL SEMINARS

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Grocery Shopper Snapshot - January 2025

This brief report provides an update on shoppers' expectations for the year ahead, evolving grocery habits and the role of technology in grocery shopping.

FMI Crisis Management Guide: Civil Unrest

Leverage this guide with your team to prepare, respond and recover from civil unrest.

Cybersecurity Guide 2024

This white paper outlines advances in cybersecurity technology for the food industry.

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2024

The food industry is experiencing enormous change. The latest version of The Food Retailing Industry Speaks relays many shifting developments and describes how the industry has worked hard to make progress in the face of all this change.

Asset Protection in Food Retail 2024

This report spotlights how asset protection professionals have been adapting strategies to address a wide range of traditional and emerging threats—from natural disasters to active shooters.

Active Assailant Preparedness, Response and Recovery Checklist

Active Assailant Preparedness and Response Checklist

Use this checklist along to ensure that your food retail facility is well-prepared for any major workplace violence incident.

Active Assailant Preparedness and Response Guide for the Food Retail Industry

This resource provides strategy and tactics to mitigate workplace violence and active shooter incidents and guidelines and best practices for mitigating the risk of active shooter threats.

Food Defense Guideline

The following guideline is meant for assisting key personnel to prepare, respond, stabilize, and recover from a tampering or intentional contamination event.

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On-Demand Video: Emergency Preparedness: Workplace Violence

In this recorded session, FMI CEO Leslie Sarasin moderates a panel conversation with industry leaders who have experienced unthinkable crises directly.

FMI Crisis Management Guide: De-Escalation

Leverage this guide with your team to prepare and respond to tense encounters as we continue to keep workplaces safe.

FMI Crisis Communications Guide 2019

When crises occur, your response will be critical to maintaining your relationships with shoppers, employees and business partners. Leverage this manual with your team to prepare, respond and recover from a crisis.

Asset Protection

EVENTS

We welcome you to join us for the following events.

Conference
2025 Asset Protection and Grocery Resilience Conference
- Monday, March 31 - Thursday, April 3, 2025
- | St. Louis, MO
The FMI Asset Protection and Grocery Resilience provides an opportunity for loss prevention, risk management, workplace safety and crisis management professionals in the food retail industry to network and collaborate on all aspects of protecting people, reputation, and property.
Conference
2026 Midwinter Executive Conference
- Wednesday, January 21 - Saturday, January 24, 2026
- | Chula Vista (San Diego), CA
The annual FMI Midwinter Executive Conference is our signature, invitation-only gathering that attracts more than 1,000 food industry executives spanning all facets of the marketplace. It is a prestigious member-only event offering an opportunity for a diverse group of top industry leaders to converge and gain insights relevant to the success of their businesses, including retailers, wholesalers, independent operators, suppliers, manufacturers and solution providers. Depending on their level of membership, suppliers qualify for at least two, and up to an unlimited number of invitations.
Conference
2027 Midwinter Executive Conference
- Wednesday, January 20 - Saturday, January 23, 2027
- | Chula Vista (San Diego), CA
The annual FMI Midwinter Executive Conference is our signature, invitation-only gathering that attracts more than 1,000 food industry executives spanning all facets of the marketplace. It is a prestigious member-only event offering an opportunity for a diverse group of top industry leaders to converge and gain insights relevant to the success of their businesses, including retailers, wholesalers, independent operators, suppliers, manufacturers and solution providers. Depending on their level of membership, suppliers qualify for at least two, and up to an unlimited number of invitations.

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Leadership

FMI's Asset Protection Council includes senior level asset protection executives from food retailers and wholesalers who advise, guide and support our activities related to asset protection, loss prevention, crisis management, cyber security, risk management, operations and safety.
Learn More Asset Protection Council Portal

FMI's Risk and Safety Council plans education and networking events for food retail risk and safety professionals and provides input and guidance about our risk management and safety issues efforts.
Learn More Risk and Safety Council Portal