FMI - OMEGA - West Virginia Oil Marketers & Grocers Association

It’s 5 p.m. on a Wednesday and you’re driving your two kids back from soccer and ballet practice when your wife calls and asks what you want for dinner. What do you think of first? Pizza? Chinese? Leftovers? Questions of health and nutrition start to swirl through your head as you hear your stomach growl.

We all have them, those lists of things we know we SHOULD do, but for some reason we just don’t, or at least not as often as we should. We’ve likely long been convinced these actions are good for us, but if they require extra effort they slip into the “ought, but didn’t” pile when the motivation, inspiration or discipline is lacking.

Everyone may not agree on what to have for dinner, but we can all agree on one thing: family meals are important.

Recently, Lucas Darnell, FMI's Director of Member Relations and Advocacy (Eastern U.S.) visited with Andy Guzauskas, President and Partner of Prisco's Fine Foods in Aurora, IL. Prisco's has been a member of FMI since 2000 and has been engaged in FMI through FMI's Share Group program. Prisco's has been serving the Aurora, IL, area since 1926.

Today, the industry’s compass needs to be pointed directly on how to solve consumer needs. To do that, the future of grocery will employ technology as a tool to help shopper buy more items.