Quoted from Wickerman2:I drove to 4 different hardware stores looking for a particular can of spray paint and came up dry.
Quoted from Yoski:So after a stressful 90 minutes I got home and spend 2 minutes ordering some of the correct flux on E-bay
Two examples of people who gave retail storefronts a solid try and unfortunately ended up wasting their time. Like purplemunky said, a lot of this is self-inflicted.
Quoted from purplemunkydishw:And yet places like Fry's and Microcenter have no problems keeping open.