I've seen hobby shops list prices on planes at lower level than tower and they do very well. I live in Illinois so I still pay taxes on my tower products but I find the prices reasonable and I get the items very quickly. If the hobby shop can't maintane it's competitiveness, it will fail. I've lived in several states and in several cities and I've seen first hand hobby shops that flourish and others that fail. This is America, unless you're getting subsidies, we don't support higher prices. This may or may not be the right thing, but it is what it is. I'm not slamming hobby shops, I think they have their place, but they need to stay competitive if they want to survive.

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