Rocker used to be up the road from me. They did have stuff I found to be useful at the time, but the store became less and less things of that sort (like freud door bit sets back then, etc) and more same stuff as elsewhere for a higher price, and house branded fodder.
Same sale terms as this. You could get blum hinges there with a 25% off coupon and still be 50% more expensive than ordering the same hinges from an online cabinet supply places.
All of the sale wood was only in the center of the floor on a pallet, and if they had cherry or maple for $5 a board foot, it didn't include anything in the regular racks. the stuff on the pallet often looked like culls, but you wouldn't know that until you went there. Fortunately it was close.
At one point, I took a 25% off coupon there and got something from general finishes, and way back then, home depot up the hill also had general finishes products. They probably don't now. I made some big effort to get to the store and look around with my coupon, ended up buying something from general finishes, and went up the hill to home depot for something else. Home depot is never exactly budget priced, but you guessed it, the same finish, same size, etc, was cheaper at home depot than it was after using my coupon at rockler.
that store went out, it got relocated somewhere far enough that I've never been there (other side of the city) and a huge weed dispensary went into the store space.
I did manage to squeeze a couple of deals out of the place long before it left here (a crude but reliable LA200 delta midi lathe for $199, still use it almost 20 years later), but as time went on, stuff like that evaporated. They also had a good smalls bin for exotics that progressively got marked down, but those also disappeared. Even if you found nothing else in the store, you'd find kingwood or ebony or something in there in small pieces that were actually worth getting and figuring out what to do with later.
Woodcraft was always geographically far away compared to rockler - no clue where the local WC is here, but the other was the other side of the city, and also very difficult to find anything at if you weren't an absolute beginner. Time marches on and getting generic decent router bits for 1/2 or 2/3rds or whatever of whiteside just isn't difficult to do, if I even bought such things these days.
