1.   Increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.

2.   And that space excludes on-line sellers and general merchandise stores like Target and Safeway, which are devoting an increasing amount of space to books.

3.   As book retailers have narrowed their discounts, general merchandise stores like Wal-Mart and warehouses like Price Club have become the principal remaining discounters.

4.   As Laker mania sweeps L.A., fans are flocking to sports merchandise stores to load up on anything purple and gold.

5.   Balber said the new T-shirts will be in mass merchandise stores around the end of February.

6.   Available at most toy and mass merchandise stores.

7.   Both phones should be on the shelves now at mass merchandise stores.

8.   A slew of earnings reports from retailers showed strong sales gains at department and general merchandise stores, but poor showings at apparel retailers.

9.   Also, increasingly price-conscious consumers are shopping less at department stores and more at discount stores and general merchandise stores.

10.   Chain stores include conventional supermarkets and general merchandise stores such as Daiei and Ito-Yokado.