Sustainability

Photo Friday: FMI Energy & Store Development Conference Highlights!

The 2024 FMI Energy & Store Development Conference was a fantastic event packed with great moments filled with inspiring speakers, innovative products and ...

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

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 ...

How the Food Industry Can Advance Sustainability in 2024

Despite relatively high inflation and overall economic uncertainty, sustainability remains consistent as an important factor influencing shopper ...

Shoppers Look for Proof of Sustainability Practices

The take from an upcoming FMI consumer insights research report about transparency is that shoppers want ...

Sustainability Plays Important Role in Private Brands

Our annual private brands research sheds light on sustainability through the eyes of both consumers and the ...

Sustainable Shopper Segments

Shoppers are focusing more and more on sustainability, but do they just talk the talk, or do they actually walk the ...

Food Industry Pursues Wide Range of Sustainability Efforts

Retailers and suppliers are making sustainability a priority with quantified goals and time frames for a range of strategies, such as responsible sourcing, energy use, and food and package waste ...

How Sustainability Considerations Influence Meat Purchases

About a third of shoppers consider animal welfare, the planet and social responsibility in their purchase ...

FMI State Issues Retreat Roars Back with Focus on Sustainability

For the first time in more than twenty years, State Issues Retreat left its traditional August timeframe and was held in mid-July in Park City, Utah. Attendees discussed state legislative policy on extended producer responsibility, mandatory ...

Acting on Concerns about Food and Packaging Waste

Reducing food and packaging waste has become a bigger priority for consumers and food industry companies — for reasons ranging from financial to ...

The Model Store: How Supply Chain Challenges and Sustainability are Driving Decisions

As the last few years have shown, it’s an ever-evolving operational climate for doing business. Food retailers building new stores or remodeling existing locations are simultaneously dealing with supply chain challenges and the drive toward ...

Younger Consumers Spotlight Sustainability

Millennials and Gen Z are more interested in environmental sustainability and they show a greater willingness to pay more for ...

How Sustainability is Driving Shopper Decisions

Despite high inflation and overall economic uncertainty this year, FMI’s latest data shows sustainability remains consistent as an important factor influencing shopper decisions. The consumers most likely to be interested in sustainability are ...

A Green Blueprint for Energy-Efficient Stores

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

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 ...