Retailers must adjust to changing consumer preferences. Shoppers rate store selection top on their lists.

Joint health issues and an aging population bring attention to fortification options.  It’s not only the unsteady economy giving people aches and pains today.

Conversion of stores to supercenters affects mass merchandise statistics.  Once featuring large stores selling primarily hardlines with a dash of grocery, leading mass merchandise retailers, including Target, Wal-Mart and Kmart, have converted so many stores to supercenters that the traditional mass merchandise channel fell more than 5 percent...