I will be very honest & tell you that I am disappointed in what I find in shops compared to what I find online & I can find better prices online too. I do shop some in my LQS, but usually for incidentals. Every time I go in to try to find a fabric I usually leave without buying. You would have to have a pretty big shop & inventory to appeal to a broad base. My taste just differs from theirs a lot. Additionally, they have to buy things like fat quarter packs in multiples, so there is never a big selection of the latest new fabrics. If they do have them in yardage they only have a handful of the fabrics in the line, when the line may have 20 or 30 of them. I do try to buy my supplies from them when I take a class there.