FMI’s Midsummer Strategic Executive Exchange provides a unique strategic opportunity for trading partner collaboration to hit the reset button and together identify, prioritize and address the industry’s most pressing business issues. Through private, virtual business to business meetings FMI will provide a framework to accelerate business recovery and streamline ways of working better together up and down the supply chain.

The truth is the COVID-19 pandemic has affected all our mindsets and shopping habits. Our U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends COVID-19​Tracker details over a five-week period how Americans are coping with new realities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. As we go forward into a new reality, we will learn more about the pandemic’s impact on fresh foods in the current landscape.

Even in the best of times, most of us would like the ability to take a peek into the future. However, during these unprecedented times, the desire to know what is going to happen next increases dramatically. Since March 21, 2020, FMI has been conducting online surveys to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the behaviors of grocery shopper. The results have provided insights into how grocery shoppers have and continue to modify their grocery shopping behavior.

Unprecedented online grocery shopping growth because of COVID-19 has dramatically increased the need for efficiency and better understanding of online retail fulfillment operations. Last week, in a virtual program hosted by FMItech & The Center for Advancing Retail Technology (CART), we explored operational options and partners in distribution center supply chain technology. Marc Wulfraat, a supply chain and logistics consultant serving food retail, evaluated the following options for grocery ecommerce fulfillment.