Yes I support my Local Quilt Store, I travel for my work and frequent some stores on a regular basis, i would just hate if it my home town store closed. I'm the president of our local Guild so I make sure we buy from the local store when we have community projects to do in return we get a discount of 10% for being guild members. I always tell new quilters to visit the local quilt store they are worth their weight in gold in good product, good classes and lots of advice from many diffrent quilters.