By: Jeanne von Zastrow, Senior Director for Sustainability, Food Marketing Institute We’re hearing a lot of buzz about sustainable sourcing lately, but what is it? Sustainable sourcing of commodities or finished goods extends beyond traditional cost and …
By: Jennifer Hatcher, Senior Vice President, Government and Public Affairs, Food Marketing Institute Next week, the food retail industry’s annual Day in Washington fly-in will attract hundreds of grocery executives to Capitol Hill. Led by FMI, the National …
By Steven Harris, Director, Policy Development and Regulatory Compliance, Food Marketing Institute The Sweet 16 bracket is now set and about to start. Many fans may already have a busted bracket, but there is still plenty of great college basketball left …
By: Sarah Malenich, Senior Manager, Sales & Marketing for the Safe Quality Food Institute We live in a “prosumer” world. Today's proactive consumers utilize their stake in the market to advocate for safer, higher quality products and demand how …
By: David Fikes, Vice President, Consumer/Community Affairs and Communication, Food Marketing Institute Supermarkets have an array of fresh, frozen and prepared foods. Your store maintains quality assurance and sanitation standards to ensure customers …
By: Laurie Gethin, Director of Education, Food Marketing Institute More than an event or conference, Future Leaders @Connect reaches grocery employees far beyond those who attend. Since the program’s inception in 2009, more than 4,800 current and aspiring …
By: Margaret Core, Vice President, Industry Events, Food Marketing Institute Food retailers are facing a ‘periphery’ challenge. Our research suggests a shopper demand trends toward fresh foods that are connected by core consumer values, including health …
By Mark Baum, Chief Collaboration Officer, Food Marketing Institute The “click-and-collect” market in the U.S. is relatively nascent, and a handful of FMI members, namely Walmart, Harris Teeter and Kroger, have introduced click-and-collect offers for …
By: Carol Abel, Vice President of Education, Food Marketing Institute Selecting conference speakers is a lot like building a team, and for an event as substantial as FMI Connect we definitely needed to build an all-star lineup. Historically, our conference …
By Steven Harris, Director, Policy Development and Regulatory Compliance, Food Marketing Institute Last week, over 200 grocers traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate in FMI’s annual Day in Washington fly-in on Capitol Hill, held in partnership with …
By: Hilary Thesmar, PhD, RD, FMI Vice President, Food Safety Programs, Food Marketing Institute Product tracing used to be something we needed when things went wrong – when there was a recall or a food safety investigation. But now, product tracing has …
By: Jeanne von Zastrow, Senior Director for Sustainability, Food Marketing Institute Food waste has real power. I recently had the opportunity to witness the difference food waste can make to not only a community, but also our environment. A few weeks ago, …
By Sue Wilkinson, Senior Director, Information Service & Research, Food Marketing Institute Every year since 1958, the American Library Association sets aside a week to celebrate libraries and library workers. This year’s theme is Unlimited …
By Sue Wilkinson, Senior Director, Information Service & Research, Food Marketing Institute FMI’s Information Service collection, which we lovingly call the FMI Library, is home to 5,000 volumes of publications, research reports, books and more about …
By Stephanie Barnes, FMI Regulatory Counsel Food retailers are experiencing a climate where union election win rates are at new highs, suggested Glenn Smith, Esq., Office Managing Shareholder, Littler, in an FMI webinar on the National Labor Relations …
By: Julie Schrei, Director Political Affairs, Food Marketing Institute Just 24 hours apart, two prominent political figures announced their respective bids for the Presidency in 2016 – former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Marco Rubio ( …
By: Jeanne von Zastrow, Senior Director for Sustainability, Food Marketing Institute My past few weeks have been filled with food retailers collaborating with their trading partners on sustainability. In meeting with our FMI Sustainability Executive …
Study Highlights Embargoed until 3 p.m. CT/4 p.m. ET Thursday, April 23, 2015 (NewMediaWire) - April 23, 2015 - DALLAS - Long-term exposure to fine particle air pollution may cause subtle structural changes in the brain that could precede cognitive …
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Folsom, CA - (NewMediaWire) - April 23, 2015 - MyECheck, Inc. (OTC PINK: MYEC), the leader in electronic check solutions for internet and mobile payments, announced today the release of plug-ins for the two leading ecommerce platforms, WooCommerce and …
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