Dollar stores and supercenter retailers like Wal-Mart are gaining loam lost by supermarkets.

Dollar stores and supercenter retailers like Wal-Mart are gaining loam lost by supermarkets, so says the latest "channel blurring" close attention from ACNielsen. According to the ACNielsen research, supercenter and dollar stores are showing gains the two in the percentage of households who store in those channels and in the number of trips consumer take to them each year.

"More than at any time grocery retailers have to create a unique reason for shopper to pitch upon them," said Todd Hale, senior vice