From what I can tell, the local shops are getting more and more into the foam RTFs and less and less on building supplies. One of my "local" shops has bass, balsa, ply and lite ply but a very limited supply of control rods. The second is pretty much a RTR(surface) and RTF(aircraft), only a small rack of balsa and no other wood. What doesn't make much sense is both carry a fairly large amount of tools for working with wood, as well as tools to work on RTR/F stuff. Come to think about it, both carry fuel, mostly for cars/buggies but no fuel tanks to put it in. I THINK the shop owners are trying to carry just what is being bought so, if everyone is buying foam planes, why carry the materials needed to build something from plans?