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DUSSELDORF, Germany -- European retailer Metro Group plans to expand its "Tag It Easy!" Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) pilot program, during which it will enable an additional 70 consumer goods suppliers in China and Vietnam to apply RFID labels on shipments to its facilities in Germany.

QUINCY, Mass. -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. is recalling Stop & Shop Ground Meatloaf Mix with use-by/freeze-by dates Oct. 31, and Nov. 2, 2007, from its stores in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut west of Route I-91.

QUINCY, Mass. -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. is recalling Stop & Shop Ground Meatloaf Mix with use-by/freeze-by dates Oct. 31, and Nov. 2, 2007, from its stores in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut west of Route I-91.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In the latest industry initiative to boost food safety practices, GLOBALGAP and The Food Marketing Institute's Safe Quality Food (SQF) Institute said yesterday they are developing a combined audit checklist that will facilitate a "high degree of harmonization between the GLOBALGAP and SQF 1000 on-farm standards."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In the latest industry initiative to boost food safety practices, GLOBALGAP and The Food Marketing Institute's Safe Quality Food (SQF) Institute said yesterday they are developing a combined audit checklist that will facilitate a "high degree of harmonization between the GLOBALGAP and SQF 1000 on-farm standards."

QUINCY, Mass. and LANDOVER, Md. -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. and its sister company, Giant Food, LLC, said yesterday that they are the only supermarket chains in the United States to be chosen to take part in the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Portfolio Program pilot for LEED volume certification for existing buildings.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. here is reportedly telling its executives to shut up online when it comes to business matters. The supernatural retailer's board is said to have altered its employee Code of Conduct to officially ban top executives and directors from posting messages about Whole Foods, its competitors, or vendors on Internet forums that aren't sponsored by the retailer.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- The Nielsen Company here has signed census agreements with eight major convenience store retailers to provide consumer product goods companies with access to weekly data and sales insights for every one of the retailers' corporate stores.