if your looking for a persenally owned electronic shop, they are very rare.
even though radioshack rips everybody off, they still kill any buisness that other people start.
( example ):
2 led's
Radio shack | Online
1.29$ .20$
buy around 60 leds for around 6 bucks, and pay 6 dollars shipping, and you already save money, but as weird as it is, radioshack still destroys any buisnesses, and unknowledgable people pay quadrople what its actually worth...
so like i said, independent stores are hard to come across, and most will copy radioshack with slightly cheaper prices.
i suggest ordering a bunch of items on the net ( maybe 100$'s worth ) and then youll be set for a while, and for only 70 bucks, you can get all the resistors, capacitors, etc you need, and still got 30 bucks to buy anything else!
good luck for your search of a good store, and tell me if you find one because i sometimes am near that area, and will gladly buy from a store instead of the internet