[Si Coe]

I find all this amusing because the nearest shop to me (North West Model Supplies) is practically useless to me, but it doesn't mean they are a bad shop. They are mostly flyers, but do drive too, just bashing really. They have some high end stuff in store (B4, B44 and a Cat SX) but no spares, in fact they barely carry car spares at all even for the Ansmanns and Rascals they sell in quantity.
I go there occasionally for odds and ends, stuff I figure any model shop should have, but they never have it all. However they are polite, search for items they suspect they don't even have and offer to order stuff in, though I tend to decline as JE Spares is only a half hour away.

I don't consider them a bad shop - I just figure they deal with a very different world of RC to the one I'm in.