Research

Fresh Perspectives: Gen Z's Approach to Meat, Seafood and Produce Shopping

This initial installment in our new blog series on Gen Z grocery shopping habits will take a closer look at motivations and influences in the produce, meat and seafood ...

Unlocking Fresh Potential: The Power of Produce

In a world where health and well-being reign supreme, the importance of fresh produce in our daily lives cannot be overstated. As a long-time champion of the fresh foods industry, I've been privy to invaluable insights regarding the pivotal role ...

Lifestyle Shifts Shape the Way We're Eating

FMI members have the resources and knowledge to innovate foodservice options. Our latest research exploration identifies ways our industry should be refining how we communicate solutions that align with shoppers' changing ...

How to Help Shoppers Celebrate with Meat

According to the Power of Meat 2024, nine in 10 shoppers are willing to spend a little extra on meat and poultry. We see holidays (45%), special occasions (37%) and cookouts or entertaining (35%) among the major reasons shoppers are willing to spend ...

Three Tried and True Ways to Drive Seafood Sales

The seafood department has been a bit of a conundrum lately. During the COVID-19 pandemic seafood sales were up, but now we’re seeing seafood sales back to 2019 levels. The roller coaster may cause a seafood merchandiser to scratch their head, but ...

How Have Your Eating Occasions Changed?

This report strives to identify new opportunities for the food industry as eating occasions ...

A Cut Above: Inspiring the Next Generation of Meat Department Leaders

Shoppers have questions when browsing the meat department, and those questions are often answered by butchers and associates – even in the TikTok era. Personal engagement is especially important in this category since consumers are frequently ...

Where Did All Those Facts Come From?

At the Midwinter Executive Conference, I witnessed the attendees absorbing with interest the big wall of facts with important data points about the food ...

Store Managers Feeding Families and Nourishing Lives

Raymond Stockard from Food City in Kingsport, Tenn. shared his insights from our analysis of the Store and Department Managers survey ...

Digital Bytes: The Role of Technology in Food

FMI's Grocery Shopper Snapshot: January 2024 explores the growing role of technology in food ...

The AI Imperative Across the Meat and Poultry Sector

If two letters sum up what most people are talking about in the food production and retailing business in 2024 it would be A.I. Indeed, the topic of artificial intelligence is on the minds and agendas of many throughout the farm-to-fork supply chain,...

A Gift from FMI's Research & Insights Team

FMI's Research & Insights team made a list (and checked it twice) of key facts and insights about the state of the food industry ...

Power of Health & Well-being 2023 Report Released

With a nationwide uptick in attention on nutrition and health in 2023, we are pleased to share the newly released Power of Health & Well-being in the Food Industry report. This timely edition leverages findings from many other recent FMI reports to ...

The Growing Transparency Expectations of Today's Shoppers

FMI's new research report, Transparency Trends 2023: Food Shoppers Increasingly Prioritize Information, explores shoppers' evolving attitudes about transparency over the past five ...

Meat is Having a Moment

The dishes may be all cleaned and put away, but recently shared Thanksgiving meals serve as a reminder that meat remains a center-of-the-plate food. As the holidays approach and even as New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier follow those ...