New research from London-based Planet Retail reveals sales at limited assortment "hard discounters," including dollar stores, have expanded more than 60 percent over the past five years, outperforming the grocery channel as a whole, thanks to growing consumer acceptance, expansion into new categories and the introduction of additional SKUs, including more premium offerings.

Until recently, discounters have been mostly a European phenomenon.But in the United States, discounters grabbed less than 2 percent of total sales last year, though that number is expected to top 2.4 percent in five years.Despite discounters' comparatively low share in the United States, stateside discount store dollar sales topped $41.5 million last year — second only to Germany — attracting the attention of several of the world's leading discount operators.The boundaries between discounters and supermarkets are increasingly blurring as both sides learn and copy features from the other.

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