Voice of The Food Industry Blog

Preparing for the 2026 Hurricane Season: Food Safety and Retail Readiness

With a little preparation, grocery stores can weather hurricane season without compromising operations or food safety....

A Long-Awaited Regulatory Reset: Advancing Pragmatic Refrigeration Policy

After years of sustained advocacy, litigation and engagement across multiple administrations, FMI and its members are seeing meaningful progress on the Technology Transitions Rule and the Leak Management (Refrigerant Management) ...

Human Connection Is Grocery Infrastructure

As ecommerce grows, AI-enabled shopping expands and agentic commerce begins to emerge, more of the grocery journey will be shaped by digital systems before a shopper enters the store. That shift makes the physical experience more important, not less....

Why Retail Media Needs a Measurement Reset

FMI’s new retail media framework provides the food industry with a standardized way to demonstrate what is working and what is ...

Winning in Nonfoods Starts with Closing the Perception Gap

Nonfood categories generated $5.6 billion in new sales last year, and grocery retailers need to have a nonfoods strategy to capture the sales....

Managing Legal Risk, Q&A with Sarah Brew

For those in the industry, food is always center stage – companies spend their days adapting and evolving to meet changing consumer expectations....

Personality Types Among Grocery Stores

Every year, our U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends report focuses on a question that is worthy of our consideration. For our 2026 report, we decided to concentrate on the in-store experience—Why do shoppers still go to the grocery ...

Here’s What You Should Watch on Food Price Inflation

Andy Harig recently joined Dr. Ricky Volpe, professor of agribusiness at California Polytechnic State University, for a discussion to examine what is influencing food prices and what consumers can expect in the months ...

Cybersecurity as a Supply Chain Risk

In grocery, cybersecurity is not simply about protecting data, it is about keeping product moving throughout the value ...

The Grocery Shelf Is Ready for Its Digital Upgrade

Electronic shelf labels streamline store operations, deliver clearer product information for shoppers and connect the physical shelf to the store’s digital operating ...

Meet a Dietitian Connecting Wellness to Food in the Digital World and on TV

Join us to learn more about a day in the life of JoAnn Breaux, RDN, LD, H-E-B Wellness Nutrition Strategy Team Lead, as she takes us through her day as a busy mom and corporate dietitian.....

A Step Beyond Flowers and Chocolates on Mother’s Day

This Mother’s Day, honor the small, everyday acts like family meals that make a monumental ...

AI Doesn’t Break in One Place. It Breaks Across the System.

AI will only create real value in grocery when data, decisions and partnerships are aligned across the entire system rather than optimized in ...

FMI Lab: Tackling Food Industry Data Challenge With AI and Collaboration

FMI Lab is back with a new conversation focused on one of the grocery industry’s most pressing challenges: making sense of mountains of data. I sat down with Tom Furphy, CEO of.....

Strengthening Connections with Fresh Food Shoppers

FMI’s FreshForward Conference will explore new ways for the fresh foods industry to strengthen shopper connections and build deeper loyalty....