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Our Voice of The Food Industry blog offers commentary from FMI subject matter experts on timely and important topics to the food industry.

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  • Let's Tackle the Real Causes of Food Inflation to Feed American Families

    Sep 11, 2024 3 min read
    While it has been encouraging to see inflation cool in recent months, it’s been equally frustrating that the current political dialogue has lacked an in-depth, meaningful discussion of the economic subtleties and nuances that influence the real cost ...

  • Boardroom Vol 9: Addressing Food Industry Challenges

    Jan 17, 2024 2 min read
    Boardroom is a forward-thinking annual journal designed for C-suite executives tackling the most compelling issues confronting the food ...

  • The Power of Making The World A Better Place

    Jul 14, 2023 2 min read
    According to The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2023, 82% of food retailers emphasize community support or community ties. What’s more 62% of food retailers surveyed report these community uplift programs are successful at connecting with customers. ...

  • A Green Blueprint for Energy-Efficient Stores

    Jun 22, 2023 2 min read
    While retailers simultaneously pursue other sustainability efforts, such as reducing food and packaging waste, they are increasingly focusing on their physical locations. After all, on a global level, buildings are responsible for 40% of energy ...

  • Moving Beyond Problem Solving to Supersized Solution Scheming

    Jun 13, 2023 1 min read
    In this video, FMI President and CEO Leslie G. Sarasin gives a state of the industry address focusing on six imperative issues confronting the food industry and how FMI adds ...

  • State Legislatures Focus on Sustainability in 2023

    Apr 26, 2023 2 min read
    In the first four months of 2023, FMI has seen the introduction of hundreds of sustainability bills across the nation. These include bills to prohibit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, polystyrene foam packaging, single-use ...

  • Photo Friday: Sustainability in the Grocery Store

    Apr 21, 2023 1 min read
    I recently joined Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (SLO) professor and agriculture economist Dr. Ricky Volpe's class on “Food Retail Management.” Along with 45 students, we met with Jonathan Tan from The Ratio Institute, a nonprofit certifying body for ...

  • When Is the Best Time to Plant a Tree?

    Apr 6, 2023 4 min read
    Gene-edited food products will soon be making their way onto supermarket shelves, so the time to be preparing staff and customers for the advent of these new biotech enhanced products was twenty months ago. But if you’ve not done that, then right ...

  • Northgate Market in Cooking Up Change in the Community

    Mar 27, 2023 4 min read
    Sometimes we don’t really grasp how one program, grounded by a local grocery store, and supported by an entire community, can impact the lives of so many until we get a chance to see that impact firsthand. What an honor when Northgate Gonzalez ...

  • Are You Market Ready for Gene-Edited Food Products?

    Mar 2, 2023 3 min read
    The FMI Foundation recently hosted the first in a two-part digital seminar series designed to help FMI members prepare for the market release of gene-edited food products. The discussion featured presentations from three companies involved in ...

  • Six Imperative Issues Facing the Food Industry in 2023

    Feb 28, 2023 3 min read
    The articles in this year’s Boardroom volume 8 reflect FMI’s Imperative Issues Framework. Boardroom continues to provide analysis and recommendations through the lens of the food industry's imperative issues – from supply chain and workforce ...

  • Drumroll Please: Introducing the 2023 Class of FMI Store Manager Awards Nominees

    Feb 22, 2023 2 min read
    In addition to celebrating the hardworking people who make up our industry, we want to pay special attention to the store managers who are the heartbeat of local supermarkets across the globe. These devoted leaders embody their company’s vision and ...

  • 3 Easy Ways to Jumpstart Your Plans for Supermarket Employee Day 2.22.23

    Jan 9, 2023 2 min read
    There are more than 40,000 stores that sell food and grocery items in the U.S. alone. Millions of supermarket employees come to work daily to keep shelves stocked and to provide communities with essential services that help them survive and ...

  • Our Favorite Buzzwords: Unprecedented Disruption

    Sep 29, 2022 1 min read
    It is heartening to know that together, we can navigate through today’s unpredictable marketplace and chart a course into the future. I’m thrilled to share this short clip with you in preparation for the FMI Midwinter Executive Conference, held ...

  • Unprecedented Times and the New Demands of Leadership

    Sep 19, 2022 3 min read
    One of the most popular words invoked over the past 30 months has got to be the term “unprecedented.” As we endeavored to capture the breadth and depth of the pandemic experience, we were told we faced unprecedented challenges, living in ...