The Food Marketing Institute (“FMI”) submits these comments in response to the request for information (RFI) of the Department of Labor (“the Department”), as published in the Federal Register on July 26, 2017, to gather information to aid in formulating a proposal to revise the regulations at 29 C.F.R. Part 541, defining and delimiting the exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employees in Section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA” or the “Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 213(a)(1).