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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Harris Teeter is introducing Harris Teeter Naturals, a line of natural and organic private label products, in celebration of Earth Day.

DALLAS - Fleming today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire seven Dallas-area Super1Foods stores.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Kansas City-based Associated Wholesale Grocers, which owns Food 4 Less, has said it will buy five Albertson's stores in Kansas, The Wichita Eagle reports.

NEW YORK - A woman is suing Robert's American Gourmet Food Inc. for $50 million saying its label on Pirate's Booty corn and rice puffs ruined her diet, the Associated Press reports.

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market will receive a Regional Excellence award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The WILD Foundation and the host sponsor Animal Planet for its 2001 "Fish for Our Future" educational awareness campaign.

WASHINGTON - Sixteen manufacturers and retailers joined the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Food Marketing Institute in urging the CPG industry to adopt the UCCnet data registry as the North America standard for electronic data sharing.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Doctors abandon their prescription pads for Internet scripts at Giant Food and Pharmacy.

NEW YORK - Kroger Co. today said it reaffirmed its fiscal 2002 forecast of 10 percent to 12 percent earnings per share growth, helped by strong sales of high-margin private label food and household items, Reuters reports.