My experience of local stores is one of cheap nasty products which break on the day you buy them, idiosyncratic opening hours, and an inability to handle even basic stock control. Oh and everything is overpriced by a factor of about four. No thanks.
That's presuming they even stock what I want, which they usually don't.
Could you give an example of something you bought local to you that was ~4 times the price of Amazon and broke soon after you purchase it? Presumably you got your money back; I wonder how the store is staying open if they have to refund all their customers.
I live in Edinburgh, it was a hardware store, it was a set of screwdrivers. It's the only hardware store within 2 miles accessible on foot (most people walk to shops here).
That's presuming they even stock what I want, which they usually don't.