It's sad when you lose a local game supplier... but it's even sadder when it is the only one within a reasonable driving distance. Last year I drove an hour and a half on a road trip to a town which is much smaller, but primarily a college town, just to remind myself what a real gaming store looks like, rather than what a lot of us get left in most parts of the country - a comic book and sports card store with a few books and some dice in the corner.
I can find more d20 products or RPGs in general in the local Barnes and Noble store, the B. Dalton's, and the Borders which is a half hour away, than I can in the so-called 'gaming stores' we have around here anymore. The only reason I go to the local game stores is to get dice, skim through the meager miniature selection, find a Dragon magazine that sold out or never made it to the B. Dalton's in the mall if it's an issue I really want or to get Kenzer supplements (for some reason the store can get Kenzer products, but other than that it's all picked-over WoTC and White Wolf stuff.)
The local 'gaming store' didn't even have CoC. I found it at Barnes and Noble. When I went birthday shopping for another DM, I found more interesting things at the mall than I did at the 'games store'. It didn't always used to be this way, we used to have one or two decent stores where you could find a good RPG selection (even if the owner of one was a total jerk). Now that they're gone we're at the mercy of national chain bookstores.
