I'm a builder. For years I would find all of those little weird nickel and dime things I needed to finish a project at my LHS. So, to repay them, I would buy as much from them as I could, even a few big ticket items. But now, the LHS's have almost nothing that I need but fuel. SO, I don't see much point in their existence at all. I shop on line, I buy from ACE hardware, Hobby Lobby, Tower, almost everybody BUT that darn , no-good, LHS. They don't support me and I don't support them. My advise : start looking now for alternative places to find the things that you need. The LHS says they can order this or order that for me. WELL, SO CAN I. Only it comes to my door and I save 2 hours driving and 7 bucks worth of gas and my valuable time. They seem to think that a person's time isn't worth anything. After spending thousands of dollars worth of my time TRYING to buy at the LHS, I realized what THEY cost me. DEATH to BAD LHS's. RC HOLY WAR !!!!![>:][:@]

So .............support it if and only if its a good LHS. Kill off the rest by driving past.