Hobby Shops in Tough Times

[tomustang]

I stopped by three of my local hobby shops today, two of which specialize in trains only. They all have extremely limited selections and very few customers, and frankly charge and arm and a leg for stuff. Its sad. :cry: I feel bad for them, but whats one to do? I know I only have a little bit each month to spend on trains these days. I hope the local hobby shops can survive. Online shopping might be the only way to get trains soon. I'm in the Phoenix area, anyone else notice this in their city?

There has been several threads on this, and even worse where shops closed do to the economy. I know my local hobby shop is still kicking tail since they also do scale car/plane/game/army models and the big reeler of customers is R/C