These are challenging times for food retailers, as consumers increasingly embrace new ways of shopping that could disrupt the traditional supermarket model. Many end users, as well as refrigeration engineers and contractors, attended Food Marketing Institute’s (FMI’s) 2018 Energy & Store Development Conference in Atlanta, looking for advice on how to respond to these trends.
As Mark Baum, senior vice president of industry relations and chief collaboration officer at FMI, noted in his opening address, the pace of change in the supermarket industry is accelerating exponentially today.