Of course now with the internet, boutique businesses can get by where a local store could not. So it may not be instant-buy, but it's easy for someone to make useful stuff in a garage and ship it out himself. So it's probably easier now than ever to succeed at say making really good handmade doomajobbies in Sn20 and have the few nuts ... er ... enthusiasts find you on the web and buy instead of depending on being able to afford advertising and making money giving distributors a cut.
Jason
Jason