A small variation on davido's proposal. Instead of storing the records in a hash I am using an array of hashes. Every time I encounter a new "STORE" line, I push a new hash reference onto the array. This way I do not need to store the store in a variable, as index -1 always refers to the last element. Just for completeness I put the header lines into the same structure.

In order to make things look nicer, I also assumed that the lines of your data are not split but come from something like ls -l. Should this assumption be incorrect one has to change the third regex to m/^[dlrwx-]{10}|^\d+/. One could also merge the first and third regex into one as the action is identical but the code borders on obfuscation already... 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @records = ( { store => 'header' } );
while ( my $line = <DATA> ) {
  chomp $line;
  push @{$records[-1]{lines}}, $line if $line =~ m/^STORE|^Scan/;    
  push @records, { store => $1 }     if $line =~ m/^\s(STORE\d{3})/; 
  push @{$records[-1]{lines}}, $line if $line =~ m/^[-dlrwx]{10}/;    
+ 
}

print Dumper \@records;

__DATA__
STORE MONITORING REPORT      as of 13-05-02 10:05:07
Scanning for FTFIMS

 STORE002 

-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 59025 Apr 11  2012 eft100.cbr  16295    58
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 61143 Nov 15 15:47 chk075.cbr  33334    60
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 420952 Sep  6  2012 test-encrypt  63327   41
+2
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 427068 Sep  6  2012 eft115-20  36184   418
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 460694 Apr  3 06:15 eft6un  07640   450
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admins store 481069 Oct  4  2012 hostsocgw  46087   470
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admins store 503666 Feb 13 09:10 stratgw  22452   492
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 14318 Nov  1  2010 unityrep  50196    14

 STORE006 

-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 59025 Apr 11  2012 eft100.cbr  16295    58
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 61143 Nov 15 15:47 chk075.cbr  33334    60
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 420952 Sep  6  2012 test-encrypt  63327   41
+2
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 427068 Sep  6  2012 eft115-20  36184   418
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 460694 Apr  3 06:15 eft6un  07640   450
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admins store 481069 Oct  4  2012 hostsocgw  46087   470
-rwxrwxrwx 1 admins store 503666 Feb 13 09:10 stratgw  22452   492
-rwxr-xr-- 1 admins store 14318 Nov  1  2010 unityrep  50196    14

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In reply to Re: Splitting a file into records by hdb
in thread Splitting a file into records by TStanley

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