With the recent launch of our 2016 Store Manager Awards program, we wanted to share inspirational stories from the professionals on the front lines through a series of interviews with past Store Manager Award winners. We’ll ask questions focusing on them – their experiences with the program, new opportunities they’ve been able to pursue since winning the award, new achievements, and any significant changes in the store they manage and in their community.

This new dietary guidance is in opportunity for food retailers to remind consumers of their health and wellness offerings as a way of supporting shopper’s dietary efforts. FMI has a number of resources and research reports on how grocery stores can be health and wellness destinations for shoppers. Here are a few.

I’ve got a couple of big New Year’s resolutions. First, I’m committed to putting together top-notch education experiences for our signature events including the Midwinter Executive Conference and FMI Connect. Second, I’m challenging our education team to push the boundaries on developing programming for our FMI conferences. Last, I always like to have a resolution that helps me improve myself—perhaps professionally or personally. With that in mind, I thought I’d share four types of unique online course offerings FMI has designed for store-level and management associates to easily meet their professional education goals in 2016.