Support your local Bait and Tackle shops

Over the past 10 years people have gone more and more to the major stores and less to the bait and tackle shops. Many bait and tackle shops in Indiana and across the USA have gone out of business due to the glitz and glammer of the major stores. The prices are usually the same but the people and the major fishing tackle companies have forgotten the ones who made fishing the sport that it is today. I personally have tried to get the major manufacturers to list local bait and tackle shops on their websites as authorized retailers of their products. They won't, but they will however list everyone of the major outfitters and retailers in the nation on their websites. Pushing the local bait and tackle shops further and further into bankruptcy. So what I am asking you, is to support your local bait and tackle shops and show that you care about the small mom and pop shops around the country, unlike the manufacturers.