1.   The workforce in distribution began to Decline with increased concentration in retailing, rationalisation and the development of larger stores.

2.   Some of the items featured in this leaflet are available from our larger stores only.

3.   As record companies continue to flood the market, live opera recordings from the past turn up in all the larger record stores.

4.   A lawyer for Torrance, California-based Wherehouse said in court the company is being squeezed by retailers whose larger stores offer consumers more variety and lower prices.

5.   Builders Square had announced a year ago that it would sell four of its five stores and replace them with new larger stores, the papers said.

6.   But larger stores were steadily grabbing market share.

7.   But, just like the larger stores, boutiques tend to fare better when the economy is good and suffer during downturns, she said.

8.   Cardia, which is available without a prescription, is being sold only in drugstores or the pharmacy sections of larger stores.

9.   Egghead is switching to larger stores that sell more computers and will beef up its Internet software business.

10.   In the South and West, chains like Publix have capitalized on the availability of low-cost land to build larger stores.